Access Utah

We revisit our conversation from October 2025 with Deseret Magazine reporter Natalia Galicza, talking about her essay titled "Breaking a Language Barrier Brought My Family Together."

We're joined by Nick and Melanie Herrmann. We tell Nick’s story, including living with a brain injury, neuroplasticity, vocational rehabilitation, low level light therapy, and more.

We remember writer Winston Groom, who died in 2020. We revisit our conversation from November 2015, talking about his most famous book, "Forrest Gump," as well as his then new book, "The Generals."

Lonnie Anderson of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is known as the "King of Valentine's Day." Every year for nearly 30 years, he has staged a grand gesture for his wife. This year he's doing it in Logan.

William Shakespeare wrote his plays more than 400 years ago. They’re still being performed today, along with adaptations in film and opera and more. On this episode, we explore why.

Our guest is Great Salt Lake Commissioner and Great Salt Lake Strike Team Co-Chair Brian Steed. We talk about the current state of the lake and look at next steps in trying to restore it to health.

We check in with Utah State University President Brad Mortensen. We get his reaction to the Utah Legislature’s audit of USU, the university's strategic reinvestment plan, and more.

We're joined by Molly McCully Brown, author of the essay collection "Places I’ve Taken my Body" and the poetry collection "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded."

We talk with Utah State University alum Peter McChesney about his book "Quinto’s Challenge," which poses the question: What if science and religion collided and resurrection became a present reality?

We broadcast live from the State Capitol in Salt Lake City on the opening day of the 2026 session of the Utah Legislature.

We talk with Utah author Gabriel Tallent. His new novel is called "Crux." Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert

On this year's poetry roundup, we feature conversation with and poetry from Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, along with poets Danielle Dubrasky and Olivia Dudding Rodriguez.

Larry Morris recounts the 19th-century experience of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos by detailing their interactions with four legendary survivors of a fight with the Arikaras in 1823.

We talk with medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall about her new book, "Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID."

Once again we present great music and funny and heartwarming stories for the holidays. Guitarist Mike Christiansen plays music and playwright Tim Slover performs readings for the season.

We talk with USU researchers Beth Fauth and Heather Kelley. They are directors of the new Dementia Resource Ambassador program.

We talk with Travis Franks about his article "The Elusive John Rollin Ridge: The Afterlives of ‘An Indian's Grave’ and His Ambiguous Literary Legacy" and much more.

Our guest is Bob Inglis. He is a former Republican congressman from South Carolina and executive director of RepublicEn.

We talk with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book "The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life."

We revisit our conversation with Julia Corbett about her book, "Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West."

We talk with Tim McGrath, author of "Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation."

A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them.

In honor of World Philosophy Day, which is this week, USU philosophy professors are inviting you to "Ask Us Anything!" The event is at the Logan Library Thursday at 5:00 p.m.

On this episode of Access Utah, a conversation with new Utah State University President Brad Mortensen, who is in the first week of his administration.

We talk with Todd Goddard, author of "Devouring Time," a new biography of Jim Harrison — one of America's most beloved writers and author of "Legends of the Fall," "Dalva," and "True North."