Tom Williams
UPR Management | Program Director | Access Utah HostTom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.
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Salt Lake Tribune reporters talk about the week’s top stories, including Salt Lake City creating new rules for its own license plate readers. -
Writer Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels. The latest book in the Longmire series is "The Brothers McKay." -
While our Founding Fathers were crafting our democracy in 1776, the Dominguez-Escalante expedition was crossing through Utah trying to find a path from Santa Fe to California. -
USU Assistant Professor C.R. Grimmer joins us to talk about the Greek poet Sappho and their own poetry. -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters join us to discuss the week's top stories, including ICE arrests quadrupling, the Utah Senate president threatening to sue critics, and more. -
Matt Ward from the Millard County Chronicle Progress joins us for the first episode of a new series. Once a month, we'll check in with a different small-town newspaper. -
We talk with Jay Neugeboren about caring for a brother with mental illness, a posthumous lunch with Oliver Sacks, and a thwarted kiss at a teenage summer camp where he was a young Jewish man in exile. -
We talk with Michael Hicks about the story of how a group founded by persecuted religious outcasts grew into a multimedia powerhouse. -
We talk with veterinarian and author Dr. Carol Osborne about how to keep our pets safe, healthy, and environmentally friendly. -
On this episode we talk with Wil Wood, author of “And It Was Beautiful” and Zack Garner and Rachel Quillen Garner, writer and illustrator, respectively, of “Half Moon on the Moon.”
