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Moab Music Festival special on Friday's Access Utah Aug 30, 2024

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Tom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of Mishognonvi.

'Without Exception' with Pam Houston on Tuesday's Access Utah Aug 27, 2024

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Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.

'The World Until Yesterday' with Jared Diamond on Access Utah Aug 21, 2024

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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 these things.

Helen Thayer's life of adventure on Access Utah Aug 20, 2024

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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.

'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Access Utah Aug 19, 2024

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Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."

'The Klansman’s Son': A memoir of renouncing white nationalism on Access Utah Aug 15, 2024

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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 first white supremacist website.

Our community booklist on Access Utah Aug 14, 2024

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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?

The science, politics, and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster on Access Utah Aug 13, 2024

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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 orange with sludge and toxic metals.

Building peace in our neighborhoods, our nation, and our world on Access Utah Aug 12, 2024

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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.

'The Wind Knows My Name' with Isabel Allende on Access Utah Aug 08, 2024

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On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.