Rob Sivak
Contributing producer, MiddayRob Sivak is a contributing producer for Midday, with host Tom Hall. Recently retired after a seven-year stint as Midday's senior producer, Rob joined WYPR in 2015 as senior producer of Hall's previous show, Maryland Morning (which aired its final broadcast on September 16th, 2016). Before coming to the station, Rob enjoyed a 36-year career at the congressionally funded global broadcaster, Voice of America. At VOA, he honed his skills as a news and feature reporter, producer, editor and program host.
After reporting assignments at VOA's New York City, United Nations and Los Angeles bureaus, Rob spent two decades covering international food, farming and nutrition issues for VOA's 180-million worldwide listeners, and created and hosted several popular VOA science magazines. At Midday, he continued to pursue his passion for radio and his abiding interests in science, health, technology and politics.
Rob grew up as an ex-pat "oil brat" on the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia, and studied and traveled widely in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. He attended Hofstra University in New York and Boston University's School of Public Communications. Rob and his wife Caroline Barnes, a writer, live in Silver Spring, Maryland, where they've raised three daughters.
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The popular South African musical troupe, the Ndlovu Youth Choir, joins us for a celebratory hour of song. -
Midday's annual holiday special features music, poetry and stories for the holiday season. -
Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the new stage troupe's revival of a Broadway favorite. -
What's ahead for Baltimore's Inner Harbor and its historic Camden Yards area? We get unique insights from Dr. Daniel Campo, an urban planning expert at Morgan State University. -
We're joined by a Banner editor and two reporters who've worked on the online news platform's deep dive into Baltimore's surging auto-theft rates. -
Our guest for the hour today is an Annapolis veterinary doctor who shares practical advice for keeping our pets happy and healthy, and takes your calls and emails. -
The esteemed poet, playwright and podcaster, still a creative force in her early nineties, reflects on her new collection of poems and her five-year tenure as Maryland's Poet Laureate. -
Tom speaks with Dr. Julia Jasken, a veteran educator appointed in 2021 as the 10th president of McDaniel College, and only the second woman ever to lead the school. -
The popular South African musical troupe, the Ndlovu Youth Choir, joins us for a celebratory hour of song. The world-renowned ensemble is on a month-long Eastern US concert tour.
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Bestselling novelist Ann Patchett discusses her latest book, "Tom Lake," and first-time novelist Lindsay Lynch joins us to talk about her debut work, "Do Tell."
