Talent Guide

Alvin Hall

  • Discipline:Executive Producer
  • Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2021

Bio

Alvin Hall is a broadcaster, author, and educator. His podcast series, Driving the Green Book, won an Ambie Award as the 2021 Best History Podcast. His radio programs include: The Green Book (BBC Radio 4), Alvin Hall Goes Back to School (PRI/WNYC, NY Association of Black Journalists Award), and Who Sold the Soul? (BBC Radio 4, Radio Academy Award), Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom (BBC Radio 4, Wincott Award for Journalism and Broadcasting). He presented BBC television series, notably the landmark Your Money or Your Life. On NPR’s The Moth, he performed his autobiographical story, Beyond My Viewmaster Dreams.

Current Project

Driving the Green Book

Logline

An author and his young students take an enlightening road trip across America looking for locations once listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book while also discovering new spaces and facets of Black culture.