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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Midday Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "The Hot Wing King" by noted playwright Katori Hall.
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The Baltimore Music Census is surveying musicians, venue owners, audio engineers and anyone who makes up the regions music scene.
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James O'Donnell, the former Music Director at Westminster Abbey in London, talks with Midday about his musical highlights and an upcoming performance in Baltimore.
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Classical Guitarist Manuel Barrueco joins Midday to reflect on 50 years in music and an upcoming celebratory performance in Towson.
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Civil rights lawyer Don Quinn speaks to Midday about his run for U.S. Congress in another edition of Conversations with the Candidates.
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Sportswriter and author Kevin Cowherd joins Midday to discuss the latest on Baltimore sports and his novel The Gym.
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Former Capitol Hill Police Officer Harry Dunn joins Midday to discuss his campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland's 3rd District.
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On another edition of Conversations with the Candidates, State Delegate Harry Bhandari discusses his run for Maryland's 2nd Congressional seat.
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On today's Midday newswrap, we speak to reporters covering the election trail and the Maryland General Assembly.
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August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean follows the first generation of African Americans to escape slavery and is set in Pittsburgh. The Arena Players' production runs through April 28, 2024.