Access Utah
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. Email us at [email protected] or call at 1-800-826-1495. Join the discussion!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 370
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
'Without Exception' with Pam Houston on Tuesday's Access Utah
Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.
00:50:38 |
Tue 27 Aug 2024
'The World Until Yesterday' with Jared Diamond on Access Utah
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of…
00:50:24 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Helen Thayer's life of adventure on Access Utah
Helen Thayer once walked 4,000 miles across the Sahara from Morocco to the Nile River, kayaked 2,200 miles of the Amazon River, and became the first woman to travel alone to any of the world's poles.
00:52:49 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Access Utah
Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."
00:52:36 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
'The Klansman’s Son': A memoir of renouncing white nationalism on Access Utah
Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s …
00:52:06 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Our community booklist on Access Utah
We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?
00:52:18 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
The science, politics, and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster on Access Utah
Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson's book "River of Lost Souls" tells the story of the 2015 disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado …
00:49:52 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Building peace in our neighborhoods, our nation, and our world on Access Utah
In the midst of a contentious presidential election year, many of us are feeling the need for increased peace in the world, the nation, our neighborhoods, families, and in our hearts.
00:49:25 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
'The Wind Knows My Name' with Isabel Allende on Access Utah
On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.
00:45:52 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
Revisiting 'All The Light We Cannot See' On Wednesday's Access Utah
Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We …
00:48:06 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
Revisiting The Marks Nature Leaves In Us With Gary Ferguson On Wednesday's Access Utah
“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides …
00:50:46 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
A family's story of rodeo and ranching in the new West on Access Utah
On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch about cowboys, the rodeo, and traditions of the West.
00:45:38 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Sanora Babb: Capturing the stories of migrant Dust Bowl farmworkers on Access Utah
A new biography revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. John Steinbeck relied on Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers to write "The Grapes of Wrath."
00:49:06 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
The horse: A galloping history of humanity on Access Utah
From the thundering cavalry of Alexander the Great to the streets of New York during the Great Manure Crisis of 1894, horses have shaped the grand arc of history and our everyday lives.
00:50:55 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Women's tales of river rafting on Access Utah
What do a bunch of well-seasoned river gals do on river trips without their men? Everything you might imagine, and more.
00:49:06 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
The forgotten Utah mining town of Bauer on Access Utah
Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah.
00:52:02 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
'Hillbilly Elegy' with Trump's vice president pick JD Vance on Access Utah
With former president Donald Trump’s announcement that Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate, we revisit our interview from October 2016 with then-bestselling-author J.D. Vance.
00:50:42 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Revisiting 'Deep Creek' with Pam Houston on Access Utah
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels and a collection of essays. We revisit our conversation from September 2021.
00:52:37 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Revisiting 'Chances Are...': The Vietnam War with Richard Russo on Access Utah
On this episode we’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Richard Russo about his book Chances Are…
00:49:49 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Revisiting 'Chesapeake Requiem' With Earl Swift On Tuesday's Access Utah
We’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Earl Swift, talking about his book Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.
00:51:40 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
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