RadioWest
Fridays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
A show for the wildly curious. Doug Fabrizio explores the world through in-depth conversations with writers, filmmakers, scientists, thinkers and others. From KUER in Salt Lake City.
Latest Stories
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Oscar winning documentary director Daniel Roher was terrified of artificial intelligence. So, he made a film to work through his anxiety. What he learned made him feel better – and also worse.
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Biographer Kai Bird used to think that lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn was a bit player on the American fringe. Then Trump took office, and Bird knew he was wrong.
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Josh Romney, Mitt’s son, is the president and CEO of Great Salt Lake Rising. He’s joining us to talk about saving the lake – and doing it in time for the 2034 Olympics.
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That’s the claim in journalist Kate Zernike’s recent New York Times piece. We’ll speak with her and others about a complicated battle over power and gender in Utah.
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Regular readers of The Salt Lake Tribune will know Eli McCann’s humor columns. Now he’s written a novel – and it’s already a New York Times bestseller.
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Jesus’s mother Mary likely lived for over 40 years, but many think of her in only two places, the Nativity and the Crucifixion. Scholar James Tabor wants to change that.
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There’s a mismatch between what people say about marriage and what they actually do about it. Stephanie Coontz’s book explains how we got here and where we go next.
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We’ve been talking about what this year’s El Niño could mean in Utah. For the view abroad, we spoke with the journalist Joshua Partlow.
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Climate forecasters are predicting one of the strongest El Niño patterns on record. That could lead to disaster around the globe. But in Utah, it’s a murkier outlook.
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Rituals are how we manage the changes — both good and bad — in life. But today, fewer of us practice traditional rituals. Bruce Feiler wants to help people create new ones.