Access Utah

We're once again joined by Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels.

We're joined by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas to discuss the science of music and the brain, and Rogers also takes us behind the scenes of record-making and working with artists like Prince.

It’s a member drive special edition of the program today and our special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders.

On this special member drive episode, we talk with Jason Gilmore about bridge building and civil discourse in our current political climate.

Today in a special Member Drive edition of the program we’re going to talk about food with Tammy Proctor, Jeannie Sur, and Jaimie Sanders, hosts of Eating the Past and Lael Gilbert, one of the hosts of Bread and Butter.

In the first of our member drive specials for Fall 2022, we discuss the Great Salt Lake. We're joined by Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Bonnie Baxter, Jaimi Butler and Aimee Van Tatenhove.

Adam Dorr, an environmental social scientist and technology theorist, explains why he's optimistic about coming disruptions to energy, transportation and food technologies. Dorr says these changes will usher in a new era of prosperity and freedom.

Queen Elizabeth II was England's longest serving monarch, and the second-longest reigning monarch in history. She served with 15 Prime Ministers, beginning with Winston Churchill. We put her long and eventful reign in context.

On this episode we talk with Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Kate Doyle, who created the After Ayotzinapa series for Reveal.

In the past thirty years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisoners - their combined prison sentences adding up to nearly 25,000 years - have been exonerated and freed.

On this special Access Utah book show we discuss what we are currently reading, and want to know what you are reading too.

On this episode we're joined by Logan Mitchell, faculty in the University of Utah’s Department of Atmospheric Science. We talk about pollution and the history of air quality in Utah.

In this look into to the 2022 Moab Music Festival we're joined by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (Chickasaw, who will be attending and performing) and Pianist and conductor Timothy Long (Muscogee, Thlopthlocco, and Choctaw).

"Rock art holds power that words from the mouth don't carry," writes Craig Childs in his new book. We revisit our conversation.

Shannon Hale is the Utah-based New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Academy series, Rapunzel’s Revenge and Austenland, which was made into a movie. Her latest, Amethyst, is on our latest UPR Booklist. We revisit our conversation.

On this episode, a conversation with David Maraniss about his new book "Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."

Isabel Allende is one of the most widely-read authors in the world, having sold more than 75 million books. She is our guest for today's Access Utah.

Next time on Access Utah we’ll revisit our conversation from March with writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.”

Our guest for the hour on Tuesday’s Access Utah is Brian Steed, the new Executive Director of the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air at Utah State University. Established in 2021, the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air connects researchers from Utah State University with problem solvers and decision-makers around Utah. The institute envisions a state with a high quality of life for our citizens that values and optimizes our state’s shared resources while managing continued growth. We value data-driven decision-making, shared partnerships, and a non-partisan perspective as we share the latest land, water, and air research.

About one in five adults reported experiencing food insecurity in the previous 30 days. Al Switzler joins us to discuss Tabitha’s Way, a Utah-based food pantry.