Monday, February 8 | Listen Friday, February 5 | Listen Amy Shlaes A group of conservative scholars is revising the history of the Great Depression. Among them is Amity Shlaes, my guest for the hour on the program today. She believes that both presidents Hoover and Roosevelt relied on too much government intervention to try to solve the problems of the Great Depression. Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations, a syndicated columnist at Bloomberg, a contributor to PRI's marketplace, and the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. We’ll talk about the New Deal and about our current recession and what we should do about it. Thursday, February 4 | Listen Valentine Choclate Festival 23rd Annual Valentine Chocolate Festival organizers, chefs, and judges will host the public event Saturday, Feb. 6th at 6:30 p.m. in the Logan Bullen Center. Tips and recipes for professional, amateur, and parent/child entries from local chefs Grace Harvell, Heather Troyer, and Liz Fallis. Organizer Nancy Sassano shares details about the benefit event during the first half of Access Utah. Here are some featured recipes from the festival: Chocolate Tart - Heather Troyer Make Me Swoon Macaroons - Nancy Sassano Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake - Grace Harvell Singer Suzy Bogguss Award winning singer and song writer Suzy Bogguss performs in Moab and Logan later this month. Kerry Bringhurst talks with Bogguss about her upcoming release of regional folk songs. Wednesday, February 3 | Listen Black River Dreams Lee Austin speaks first with writer Maximilian Werner of Salt Lake City about his book Black River Dreams. The book is described as a celebration of the fly fishing life, the intersection between past and present, spirit and body, water and land, and ghosts and dreams. The Mormons Emmy Award winning documentary film maker Helen Whitney talks about her work, which includes the recent series on PBS: "The Mormons." Whitney is a guest this week on the Utah State University Campus, participating in the "Crossing Boundaries" project. Tuesday, February 2 | Listen Wilderness: the Great Debate Lee Austin has a preview of a new KUED documentary that will be broadcast this week. It's called Wilderness: the Great Debate. KUED Director of Productions Ken Verdoia talks about the program. Consequences of Winter Inversion Roger Coulombe Professor and Director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Toxicology Program at Utah State University, and Randy Martin, a Research Associate Professor at USU, discuss a new study assessing the human health consequences of Cache Valley’s winter inversion air pollution. Monday, February 1 | Listen Vegetables and More Vegetable planting dates, seed viability, brussel sprouts, and cat deterrents, were all part of the discussion today with USU Vegetable Extension Specialist Dan Drost. Garden Helpful Hints Wasatch Front Planting Date Guide USU Extension Horticulture Fact Sheets Friday, January 29 | Listen Funding Arts Programs in Public Schools Utah lawmakers are reviewing requests to fund arts programs in public schools. Kerry Bringhurst talks with Republican Representative Merlynn Newbold of South Jordan. Representative Newbold is co-chair of the Public Education Appropriations Sub-Committee tasked with cutting public education funding for 2010 by 85 million dollars. Utah Symphony Music Director Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer makes his debut as conductor at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. Tom Williams speaks with Mr. Fischer about his Swiss background and the upcoming symphony season. Thursday, January 28 | Listen Sundance Film Festival The 2010 Sundance Film Festival is in full swing. Once again documentaries are in the spotlight. The documentary "Waiting for Superman" was the first film purchased at the festival this year. On today's show we hear from three filmmakers at the festival in Park City: Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, director of "Waiting for Superman," Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet, directors of "8: The Mormon Proposition," and Australian filmmaker Mark Lewis who has the only 3-D movie in the festival this year. Wednesday, January 27 | Listen Utah Green Industry Conference Today's program focuses on the 2010 Utah Green Industry Conference in Sandy. Tom Williams' guests include Philadelphia Phillies head groundskeeper, Mike Boekholder in the first half and in the second half of the program: plant explorer and author Dan Hinkley and Nicholas Staddon, director of new plant development for Monrovia. Tuesday, January 26 | Listen Dr. Joe Feagin Dr. Joe Feagin is a leading scholar on race and ethnic relations in the United States. He discusses race issues with UPR's Kerry Bringhurst during a recent visit to Utah State University. Monday, January 25 | Listen Live from the Utah State Capitol Access Utah broadcasts live from the Utah State Capitol as the Utah Legislature begins the 2010 Legislative session. In the first half Lee Austin talks with leadership from the House and Senate. Speaker David Clark, Minority Leader David Litvack, Senate Majority Assistant Whip Pete Knudsen, and Senate Minority Leader Pat Jones discuss budget issues, ethics reform, health care, and funding for higher education. Governor Herbert Kerry Bringhurst talks with Governor Gary Herbert on his budget plan and other legislative issues. And Lt. Governor Greg Bell visits with Lee Austin about on his new role as Lieutenant Governor and responsibilities as legislative liaison and leader in health care reform. Friday, January 22 | Listen The Four-Minute Memoir Recently USU English professor Pat Gantt taught a class called "The Four-Minute Memoir." It was a one-week, Monday-through-Friday, 8-to-5, intense writing experience, at the end of which the students recorded their memoirs, which are by turns funny, sad, and heartwarming. We'll be airing these memoirs Friday mornings in the 8:00 hour in Morning Edition. Today we'll talk with Pat Gantt and four of her students: Kelsha Bundy, Kristie Carroll, Kayla Anderson and Carolyn Toon. We'll hear their 4-minute memoirs and talk about the process of writing and editing and ask them what they've learned about writing and about their lives from producing their memoirs. Thursday, January 21 | Listen Help for Haiti Host Kerry Bringhurst talks to Tribune reporter Kirsten Stewart, who is following efforts by a group of Southern Utahns working to transport more than 100 orphans to the United States. Bringhurst also speaks with Gerald Brown, Director of Utah Refugee Services, about the U.S. refugee policy. Then Access Utah host Tom Williams has a conversation with USU professor of music Nick Morrison about his time spent educating the youth of Haiti. Morrison shares personal stories of better times for friends there. Wednesday, January 20 | Listen Explorer Helen Thayer Lee Austin speaks with New Zealand explorer Helen Thayer. She has walked 15 hundred miles across the Mongolian Gobi Desert and traveled solo to the magnetic North Pole. Thayer is in Logan to give two presentations at local schools and one for the general public. Proposition 8 Trial Then, University of Utah Associate Professor of Law Clifford Rosky discusses the current trial in Federal Court in California over "Proposition 8," which amended that state’s constitution to prohibit same sex marriage. Tuesday, January 19 | Listen Gulf War Veterans and Health Problems Lee Austin talks with Salt Lake Tribune reporter Mathew LaPlante about his recent series of articles on health problems suffered by returning Gulf War veterans and how the federal government is responding, or not responding. Funding Utah's Public and Higher Education In the second half, a discussion on funding for Utah's Public and Higher Education Systems during a time of budget cutbacks. Friday, January 15 | Listen Your Dream Job The good and bad of working your "Dream Job" with researchers Jeff Thompson and Stuart Bunderson. Further reading on this topic: "The Call of the Wild: Zookeepers, Callings and the Double-edged Sword of Deeply Meaningful Work" in the March 2009 edition of Administrative Science Quarterly by Jeff Thompson, assistant professor at the BYU Romney Institute of Public Management and J. Stuart Bunderson, associate professor of organizational behavior at Washington University in St. Louis The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice, and the Design of Human Work by Lee Hardy The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work by Joanne B. Ciulla Buddy Box Buddy Box- a resource for Utah students to find help when combating bullies. Carla Kelley, Executive Director and Founder of The Human Rights Education Center of Utah and Dawn Stevenson from the Utah Office of Education explain the impacts bullies have on society and learning. Thursday, January 14 | Listen Radio Cosmopolis Shane Graham is an Associate Professor of English at USU, but he’s also an avid world music fan and soon, the host of a new program on UPR called Radio Cosmopolis: Music Without Borders. We’ll spend the hour today with Shane Graham, talking about how people and cultures around the world connect through music. We’ll hear the music of Fela Kuti, The Pogues, and Vampire Weekend among others. Wednesday, January 13 | Listen Victor Davis Hanson Writer and historian Victor Davis Hanson joins Lee Austin live, in-studio for the full hour. Hanson is a Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of numerous books, including the best selling Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. He's giving a presentation today on the USU campus sponsored by the Department of Political Science. Tuesday, January 12 | Listen The Civil Rights Movement Lee Austin talks with David Dixon, Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Joseph's College, and co-editor of the books: Women in the Civil Rights Movement, and Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement. Dixon will give a presentation at Utah State University Wednesday as part of USU’s observance of the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. Global Health Crises Tom Williams talks with National Geographic photographer Karen Kasmauski about the various global health crises she has documented. Kasmauski speaks at Westminster College tonight on "Impact: From the Front Lines of Global Health." Monday, January 11 | Listen Winter Planning for Spring Planting Bryan Earl speaks with Dan Drost, USU Extension Vegetable Specialist about winter planning for spring planting, seed catalogs, etc. What Can You See in the Winter Sky? In the second half, Friend Weller talks with USU astrophysicist Shane Larsen and astronomer Lyle Johnson on the new 20" telescope in the USU observatory, the results of the LCROSS/LRO mission to find water locked in the lunar soil, Galileo and the 400th anniversary of seeing the Jovian moons and what to see in the winter sky. Friday, January 8 | Listen Healing The Body with Cell Therapy From Head to Heart to Toe Stem cell therapy has the potential to transform the treatment of human disease. Adult stem cells have been used to treat leukemia since the late 1950s. Among early attempts to do this were several bone marrow transplants conducted in France following a radiation accident. Since physicians could not isolate stem cells at that time, they transfused bone marrow with stem cells in it. The research has come a long way and now researchers at the University of Utah are the first in the nation to lead clinical trials on the injection of stem cells in to human hearts to treat heart disease. Today, we explore cutting edge research on adult stem cells taking place in Utah. Thursday, January 7 | Listen Susan Powell Media Blitz Friends of a missing Utah woman, Susan Powell, conduct a national social media campaign to help locate her one month after her disappearance. Kiirsi Hellewell says more than 27,000 individuals responded to the media blitz on FaceBook. Additional Cuts to USU Utah State University President Stan Albrecht discusses ways the university will address an additional 4.5 million dollar cut in the state-supported personnel budget. Wednesday, January 6 | Listen Health Care Debate Continued Lee Austin continues the health care debate, discussing the issues facing the Utah State legislature when they reconvene in a few weeks. Tuesday, January 5 | Listen The Art of Apology Retired physician and medical ethicist Jay Jacobsen discusses a presentation he's been giving entitled "The Art of the Apology." He says a simple "I’m sorry" is not enough. Health Care Debate We'll take up the health care debate, with State Representative Carl Wimmer of Herriman, who is sponsoring legislation to block implementation of national health care reform in Utah, and with Judi Hilman, Executive Director of the Utah Health Policy Project. Lee Austin hosts both halves of the program. Monday, January 4 | Listen Gout Today Friend Weller talks with Dr. Zorba Paster from Zorba Paster on Your Health. Their subject: gout. You may think of it as a long-ago disease but it’s making a comeback. John A. Widtsoe Tom William's guest in the second part of the program is BYU professor Alan Parrish who has written a biography of John A. Widtsoe. John A. Widtsoe was a Norwegian immigrant, a Logan resident, an academic star at Harvard, one of the world’s leading authorities on irrigation, president of both Utah State University and University of Utah and an LDS general authority.

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