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Mitt Romney’s presidential run, the hit Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon," and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “I’m a Mormon” media campaign all drew the public eye in the 2010s.

Denice Turner's new book is "A Beginner's Guide to Faults," a memoir about her love life after divorcing her husband of 25 years.

For most Americans, fairy tales feel like Disney inventions. But the "original" stories were filled with sharp moral lessons, psychological terror, and bizarre magic.

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.

Jim Enote joins us to talk about the different ways that western scientists and Native people understand the world, Bears Ears National Monument, challenges facing the Colorado Plateau, Native response to rock art and more.

The United Nations General Assembly recently voted to endorse the Equal Earth projection map. Utah State University geography professor Peter Howe joins us to discuss how we use maps every day.

Author Andrew Coe joins us today to talk about his new book, "American Bread," detailing the history of America's bread traditions and industry.

In her new book "This Haunted Land: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America," Betsy Gaines Quammen takes us on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places.

Former social media influencer August Lamm joins us to talk about the impacts of a smartphone-free lifestyle, with tips for becoming less plugged into technology.

Mollie Moon was one of the most influential women of the Civil Rights Era.

Poet Caleb Nolen joins us to talk about his recent publication, "Afterlight," a collection of poems about growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Born into a small Lebanese village, Moudi Sbeity arrived in Utah as an 18-year-old queer evacuee with a stutter. Sbeity is now a writer and founder of the Salt Lake City restaurant Laziz Kitchen.

Set amid the cornfields of central Nebraska, "The Beautiful Plain" opens on a hot afternoon in a hay barn. What begins as a prank will reverberate for decades.

We talk with folklorist Andrew Peck about NyQuil Chicken, one example of a larger, ongoing phenomenon raising questions about the role of social media in facilitating misinformation.

Clarissa Casper, writer/editor at the American Bird Conservatory, and Utah State University ecology master's student Sharon Montecino join us to talk about Great Salt Lake's effect on bird migration.

In the tradition of books like "Breath" and "Wintering," "Sleepless" combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.

John Northup, host of UPR's program The Edge of Jazz, joins us to talk about how the show started and what excites him about it.

One year ago, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was eliminating and radio stations across the country lost funding. We talk with station managers about the past year.

We talk with folklorist Lynne McNeill about the dangers and positives of artificial intelligence, social media and phone bans in schools, and the value of folklore.

UPR recently hired two new staff members: Frank Mueller and Colette Czarnecki. We asked them how they got into radio and why they stuck around.

We're joined by three USU professors who have recently published a report in the journal Sustainability and Climate Change titled, "The Utah 2034 Winter Olympics: Leaving a Lasting Clean Air Legacy."

Historian Benjamin Park is giving the annual Arrington Mormon History Lecture on Sept. 24, titled "Declarations of Interdependence — Why the Latter-day Saints Just Can’t Quit the United States."

Journalist and author Annette McGivney joins us to discuss the true story behind a deadly wellness retreat led by a celebrity self-help guru in 2009.

The Utah Symphony will visit Utah State University this week. Utah Symphony CEO and President Steve Brosvik and Nick Morrision, director of USU's Caine School of the Arts, join us for a preview.

Utah State University Classics Professor Jacob Butera joins us today to talk about "The Odyssey." We discuss the ancient text and the newly released film.