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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Intermountain Song Trails is a new oral history project exploring how songs travel across generations, families, and migration routes, from lullabies to work songs to church or scouting traditions. -
Gardening expert and UPR friend Dan Drost joins us. Whether you’ve got a large backyard garden, participate in a community garden, or have a small box near your window, Dan can help. -
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.” -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters Robert Gehrke, Leia Larsen, and Brock Marchant talk about the week’s top stories, including a recap of the Utah Legislature's 2026 session. -
As a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. -
Beloved USU professor Norm Jones has died. We remember him by revisiting our conversation from May 2019, talking about his book "Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare’s Neighbors." -
We revisit our conversation from October 2025 with Gary Ferguson, talking about his book "The Twilight Forest." -
We talk with Sarah Stein Lubrano about her book "Don’t Talk About Politics." -
Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen, Robert Gehrke, and Samantha Moilanen join Tom Williams to talk about the week’s top stories, including a proposal to for Utah to take on nuclear waste. -
Terry Tempest Williams says the Glorians are not distant deities, but ordinary presences — animal, plant, memory, moment — that reveal our vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world.
