Access Utah

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.

A TikTok video of a young Scottish mailman singing the traditional sea shanty “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” and memes that poked fun at the self-described “QAnon Shaman” were among the top digital folklore trends of 2021.

There are many needs in our communities and many step up to help. On this episode, we shine a light on non-profits and individuals doing good in our communities.

We’ll talk about fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear, hydrogen, methane and more.

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.

We hear from many these days who say “the news is depressing” or “the news just makes me mad.” Today we’re going to talk about how news consumption can affect our mental health.

Could the liberal arts be the future of the digital world?

Have you ever thought about how Covid-19 has changed the way our religious communities continue to organize their efforts in promoting and maintaining spiritual faith? On this episode of Access Utah, we are joined by five religious leaders/academics who will be informing us what kind of changes they have noticed in their respective religious communities throughout the pandemic, and what the future might hold in store for them.

Many people have not returned to the workforce following the height of the Covid pandemic. Higher-than-usual numbers of employees have quit in some areas.