Access Utah
Monday-Thursday 9:00- 10:00 a.m., 7:00- 8:00 p.m.
Access Utah is UPR's original program focusing on the things that matter to Utah. The hour-long show airs live Monday-Thursday at 9:00 a.m.
Access Utah covers everything from pets to politics in a range of formats from in-depth interviews to call-in shows.
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Latest Episodes
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Longtime member and historian of the Wasatch Mountain Club Debra Frank shares its history in her new book "Faint Heart Never Climbed a Mountain."
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On this year's poetry roundup, we feature conversation with and poetry from Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, along with poets Danielle Dubrasky and Olivia Dudding Rodriguez.
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For over three years, Nathan Larson has been photographing and writing from some of North America’s most remote landscapes: the Arctic Ocean, the edge of Labrador, Key West, Alaska, Newfoundland.
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Reforming Utah’s criminal debt collection system on Access UtahThe winner of Utah's Policy Pitch Competition, Melaine Webster, joins us to discuss her proposal to reform debt collection within Utah's criminal justice system. -
In the 2026 Fife Honor Lecture at USU, professor Katherine Borland of Ohio State University’s Center for Folklore Studies, focused on miracle narratives. She joins us for the hour.
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Digital Assets Librarian Darcy Pumphrey joins us to talk about a Utah State University library exhibit on Brigham Young College 100 years after its closure.
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“The truly happy man ought to stay at home.” This is one of many quotes preserved from the ancient Greek dramatists, now translated by classicist James Romm into verse.
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The Stokes Nature Center's NEA Big Read program is focusing on "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World," edited by Ada Limon. Featured in the book, author, poet, and essayist Molly McCully Brown joined us in January to discuss the collection and other works.Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection "Places I’ve Taken my Body" and the poetry collection "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded," which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the coauthor of the poetry collection "In The Field Between Us." She is director of creative writing at the University of Wyoming and editor-in-chief of Image Journal.
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Conserving the Little Logan River on Access UtahCritics of a major upcoming canal project in Cache Valley join us today to discuss water conservation, Great Salt Lake, and more on Access Utah.
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On this episode, we talk about the key drivers of workplace wellbeing, as well as a decline in suicide rates and an increase in residents seeking mental health services in the Bear River Health District.