Midday
Monday-Friday from noon-1:00 pm, Tom Hall and his guests are talking about what’s on your mind, and what matters most to Marylanders: the latest news, local and national politics, education and the environment, popular culture and the arts, sports and science, race and religion, movies and medicine.
We encourage your questions or comments. Email us at [email protected], or call us during the live show at 410-662-8780. You can also leave us a voicemail at 410-735-1616.
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Meet the Midday team
Midday programs with Sheilah Kast as host ended on September 16, 2016
Midday Live at New Next Film Festival
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Film fans, come on down to the Charles Theatre on Friday, Oct 3, 2025, at noon for a live edition of WYPR's 'Midday with host Tom Hall.'
Watch as Tom and an assortment of filmmakers and guests from the New/Next Film Festival discuss the films featuring at the festival. Trying to figure out what to see over the weekend? Join us as we breakdown the documentaries, comedies, animated shorts and more on screen at The Charles Theatre during the festival.
This event is free and open to the public. No tickets required. We will be taking audience questions during the show.
Latest Episodes
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We The People follows the pitched debate over the U.S. Constitution throughout its history. -
Peter Beinart is the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. He joins Midday to discuss his thoughtful, piercing new book on a future of equality for Palestinians and Jews. -
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the new production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Piano Lesson, at Everyman Theater. -
City Council President Zeke Cohen joins Midday to talk about funding more efficient bus lines. Plus, councilmembers debate a review of how much the city's educational and medical institutions pay toward the city budget. -
MONSE director Stefanie Mavronis and violence reduction policy expert Jeremy Biddle discuss Baltimore's successful strategies for curbing violent crime in the city. -
Rep. April McClain Delaney, a Democrat elected in 2024 to represent Maryland's 6th congressional district, says she's fighting to protect her constituents from draconian Republican budget cuts. -
Ivan Bates is the State's Attorney for Baltimore. He took office in 2023. -
Attorney Erica Suter has led Innocence Project Clinics at U Balt Law and now UM Carey Law schools, where law students learn how to right past injustice, like the one portrayed in Jia Rizvi's new documentary, "Sixteen Years." -
The 2016 PILOT agreement with more than a dozen nonprofit and medical institutions has been criticized. -
Baltimore City's Office of the Inspector General looks into waste and fraud within city government. Isabel Cumming joins Midday to talk about recent investigations holding officials accountable.
