Tom Hall
HostHost, Midday (M-F 12:00-1:00)
Tom Hall is the host of Midday, the award-winning, highly rated news and public policy program on WYP Radio that features interviews with elected officials, community leaders, as well as thought provoking authors, artists, researchers, journalists, and scholars from around the world.
Tom joined the WYPR staff as the Host of Choral Arts Classics in 2003. After 10 years as the Culture Correspondent and then host of Maryland Morning, Tom became the host of Midday in September, 2016. In 2020, Tom and the Midday team won an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award, one of journalism’s most prestigious awards.
Tom is also the Host of What Are You Reading? on WYPR. He has also hosted the Maryland Morning Screen Test, and the WYPR/MD Film Festival Spotlight Series. In 2006, as the Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Tom received an Emmy Award for Christmas with Choral Arts, a special that aired on WMAR television, the ABC affiliate in Maryland, for 21 years. He has been a guest co-host of Maryland Public Television’s Art Works, and in 2007, he was named “Best New Broadcast Journalist” by the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Baltimore Magazine and the City Paper have named him "Best Local Radio Personality" and "Best Talk Show Host" multiple times.
Tom has been invited to speak and moderate public forums at Johns Hopkins University, the University of MD and UMBC, Morgan State University, the MD Institute College of Art, the Creative Alliance, the Baltimore City Lit Festival, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Stoop Storytelling Series, the Enoch Pratt Library, the Ivy Bookshop, the Great Talks Series, the Phi Beta Kappa Political Forum, the Hamilton Street Club, the Baltimore Women’s Forum, the First Amendment Society, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Towson University, the Baltimore Broadcasters Coalition and the College Endowment Association. He has also moderated Mayoral and Congressional debates, panels at Light City in Baltimore, and at the Stevenson University Speakers Series.
He appears each year as the moderator of the Rosenberg-Blaustein Distinguished Artist Recital Series at Goucher College. His publications include articles in the Baltimore Sun, Style Magazine, and Baltimore Magazine, and he is the co-author of The Bach Passions in Our Time: Contending with the Legacy of Antisemitism, published by the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies. Tom also serves on the board of directors of the Baltimore Community Foundation.
Tom Hall lives in Baltimore, with his wife, Linell Smith. Their daughter, Miranda, is a television screen writer and playwright. @tomhallWYPR
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Maryland's senior U.S. Senator was elected to Congress in 1986; first as a Representative, and then as a Senator in 2006.
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Recent polling suggests a razor thing margin between the Democratic and Republican candidate. Can a slew of new political ads, funded by outside groups like Emily's List, change the course of this critical race?
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Gut, Wind, and Wire, a trio formed by longtime Baltimore Consort members, Mark Cudek, Ronn McFarlane, and Mindy Rosenfeld, joins Midday. Their music harkens back to 16th and 17th century folk traditions.
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Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller joins Midday to discuss the administration’s work on a range of consequential transportation and healthcare initiatives.
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The two leading candidates running for presidential office took to the stage last night to offer competing visions of the future of the United States.
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NPR's Climate Solutions Week sees public radio stations across the country tell the stories of Americans answering the problems of man-made changes to the planet's climate. On Midday, we turn our eye to Marylanders taking steps to build a more sustainable future for our food systems.
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David Rubenstein joins Midday to discuss his latest book The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency. Rubenstein is the majority owner of The Baltimore Orioles and Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group.
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Early in September each year, Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck skips her usual weekly review to look ahead at the upcoming 2024/2025 theater season.
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Midday at the Movies returns with Jed Dietz and Max Weiss discussing the latest films playing on the big screen, streaming services and at film festivals.
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CJay Philip, the founder and artistic director of Dance & Bmore, won the 2024 Tony Award for excellence in theater education. This weekend she spearheads the Waterfront Partnership's Baltimore by Baltimore festival.