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Vicki Barker

Vicki Barker was UPR's Moab correspondent from 2011 - 2012.

A native of Moab, she started working in radio as a teenager and earned a degree at Utah State University-Logan in broadcast performance and management. She worked as a news reporter and feature writer for radio and publications throughout the intermountain area and also worked in the national parks, in outdoor environmental education, and as an editor.

Vicki passed away in April 2012 and has left a void on UPR where her voice used to be.

  • Despite Protests, BP Still Committed To The Arts
    Vicki Barker
    British oil company BP says it will continue to finance sponsorships of art institutions, including the Tate Britain and the British Museum. This despite the activities of protesters who have tried to call attention to BP's handling of the Gulf spill disaster by smearing the Tate's main hall with a feather-covered slick.
  • Mark Billingham is the author of seven Tom Thorne mysteries. The novels are being developed for a BBC television series.
    Murderers, Marauders And The Dark Side Of London
    Vicki Barker
    If you fancy a nice, cozy whodunit set in the jolly English countryside with kindly vicars and fresh-faced debutantes, then Mark Billingham's novels are definitely not for you.
  • Doris Lessing became the oldest writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007.
    Doris Lessing Revisits — And Rewrites — The Past
    Vicki Barker
    As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people.
  • In Glasgow, says Denise Mina, "most people know someone who's been to prison."
    Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets
    Vicki Barker
    Scottish criminologist-turned-crime writer Denise Mina writes about slums and public housing projects — and the unlikely, imperfect characters who make their homes there.
  • World's Most Explicit Art Is on Exhibit in London
    Vicki Barker
    "Seduced" at the Barbican Gallery attempts to show 2,500 years of sexuality in world art, and to explore how attitudes about what is erotic art and what is pornography have changed through the ages. It's billed as the most sexually explicit fine-art exhibition ever staged.