Access Utah

Utah food producers provide products that are unique to the state referred to as specialty crops. In the Cropping Up series, Utah Public Radio has been featuring some of these crops, their health benefits, and the role they play in helping us access fresh food.

On this episode we have a conversation with members of the Fry Street Quartet and physicist Dr. Robert Davies about The Crossroads Project.

Kristin Du Mez joins us to talk about her new book, 'Jesus and John Wayne', which is on our latest UPR Community Booklist.

On this episode we discuss Pride Flags in Schools and are joined by Larry Williams, Logan City School Board of Education President; Katie Lee-Koven, parent of a Logan elementary school student; Yvonee Marcyes, Board President of Logan Pride; and Andrea Sinfield.

On this special 'Bringing War Home' edition of Access Utah we talk with Rich Etchberger, recorded live from our event at the USU Moab Campus.

On this episode we're joined by Hal Cannon to talk about (and listen) to his new release, Nothin' Lastin'.

We’ll talk with Ute Tribe Business Committee Chairman and Uncompahgre Band Representative Shaun Chapoose regarding a new monument designation, and we revisit a portion of our conversation with Senator Mazie Hirono.

Poet David Lee joins us today to talk about his latest collection Rusty Barbed Wire.

We're joined by Priyanka Kumar to discuss our place in the landscape—and in the cosmos—by way of watching birds.

On this episode we're joined by Eric Saylor, Professor of Music History at Drake University, to discuss the compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Dr. Benjamin Pykles will deliver the 2022 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, titled “Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past” Thursday evening at 7:00 in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall at Utah State University.

Susan Madsen is the Inaugural Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project. Today we’ll check in with Dr. Madsen to explore topics concerning Utah women.

Today we revisit our conversation with Judy Kawamoto, winner of the 2022 Evans Handcart Award from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University, for her book Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America.

Terryl Givens, winner of the 2022 Evans Biography Award from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University, for his new book Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism.

We're joined by Professor Sam Arungwa from the USU Blanding campus, Rep. Lowry Snow, and Jason Torgerson, San Juan County Sheriff.

Former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff joins us once again to discuss the current state of affairs in Ukraine and Russia.

On this episode, It’s another non-profit spotlight where we highlight your favorite non-profits within the community.

What do sports and religion have in common? Randall Balmer joins us to discuss.

We know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered. On this episode we discuss.

A conversation with John Garth, author of Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, which tells the story of how Tolkien embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe, revealing the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introducing the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life.