Arts Express

* Filmmaker and veteran manager of rock artists Jon Brewer discusses his doc Chuck Berry: The Original King Of Rock 'n' Roll * Brett Gregory and Dominic Lees on AI's impact on film and TV * Garland Nixon on suing Twitter

* Amy Redford Talks The Sopranos, This Revolution, And Her Father Robert R. * Ron Perlman Rant On The Picket Line * "The Hollywood Renaissance And The Blacklist": Brett Gregory and Andy Willis * More At The Atomic Cafe with director Jayne Loader

* Margaret Cho on her "Live and Livid" stand-up tour, and news on the writers' and actors' strike *The Atomic Cafe: AE talks with the director of the classic film doc of US nuclear war propaganda * Brett Gregory on The Ageing Woman In British Film * Scott Ritter: Banned on YouTube!

* Orlando Jones talks Til Death Do Us Part * Lionelle Hamanaka shares personal memories during Nagasaki remembrance day * Stephanie Bartage on Shawshank Redemption for the stage * Excerpts of our production of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse

In this adaptation prepared especially for radio, Virginia Woolf's ground-breaking stream of consciousness novel, To The Lighthouse, is brought to life. In a sort of ghost story that plays with time, memory, and recollection, a young boy, over a period of ten years, tries to journey to the lighthouse, a stormy boat ride away from his family’s summer vacation home. The life of his nurturing mother,...

* Filmmaker Susan Stern Talks Barbie Nation--An Unauthorized Tour! * Brett Gregory & Chris Nunn In Search of The Wicker Man--new revelations on the cult horror film * Wall Street/Hollywood East And West SAG AFTRA Strike Update * Dennis Broe on "Apocalyptic TV & Global Warming"

* Director Mary Harron talks Daliland and The Notorious Bettie Page *Wall Street/Hollywood SAG-AFTRA Actor's Strike Updates * Kubrick And Control: Brett Gregory on Jeremy Carr's interpretation of Kubrick's classics * Garland Nixon's Crime Scenes 

* Hollywood Babble-On: Kevin Smith Taking The Movie Industry To The Next Level * Brett Gregory: British Cinema And A Divided Nation * Fran Drescher and SAG-AFTRA take on Wall Street greed * A Life In The Key Of The Community: art as a communal act

** Graham McTavish Talks The Witcher, Men In Kilts, & Somewhere in Montana. ** A Memo From David Mamet to writers ** Peter Wise tracks down rock musician & reporter, Bob Saar ** Garland Nixon on corrupted corporate media

** Director Catherine Hardwicke Talks Prisoner's Daughter: drugs, incarceration, and the struggles of single working mothers.  ** As Far As I Can Walk: A Conversation With Director Stefan Asimyevich ** Bro on the crime novel and corruption ** Garland Nixon breaks it down

* First Nation star Wes Studi talks PTSD in Mending The Line and his new series Reservation Dogs * Garland Nixon on reading the news backwards * The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel's oppressive tech is  exported to the world

** Daliland: Talking With Barbara Sukowa, whose  portrayals include Rosa Luxemburg and Dali's muse and slave - Gala ** The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation  ** Peter Wise with Blues Hall Of Fame musician Pat Hazell

** Director Abel Ferrara, auteur of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York on his recent film Padre Pio ** Musician Pat Hazell talks Heartland Blues Music  ** Jack & Rick catch up with the Shark Whisperer ** A Celebration Of Ken Loach's 60 Year Career In Socialist Filmmaking

** About Him & Her: A Conversation With Callan McAuliffe. Playing a troubled Chicago artist who falls in love virtually, before the digital age.  ** Paintings In Movies from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Portrait of A Lady On Fire ** Two May birthday music legends jam

* Novelist Dennis Lehane talks Small Miracles, the writers strike, and adapting his novels to film * Bro on "Series TV After the Deluge:" Bank failures, budgets and the new conservatism in programming * Same Propaganda, Different Day--The Case of Red Dawn

* Jon Voight talks Mercy and Coppola's Megalopolis, and his new doc about Midnight Cowboy * Garland Nixon on Corporate Media Watch * How Hollywood Sells Us War - Hollywood's Crucial Role In The Military Industrial Complex

* Leslie Uggams talks Dottie & Soul in a conversation about defying race and class in her latest film * Julian Assange's Letter to Charles * Dennis Broe on the Hollywood Writers Strike * Garland Nixon's Corporate Media Watch

* Actress Famke Janssen Talks Knights Of The Zodiac--and how she is drawn to take-charge female film roles  * Caitlin Johnstone with a real Mothers Day poem * Dennis Broe converses with historian Gerald Horne about neo-colonialism * Empire Hollywood: The Pentagon Calls the Shots

* Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Byways, Blade Runner, and his photography  * "Red Iowa:" Peter Wise tells tales of the "Global Trotsky" * Dirty Work-- prisons, slaughterhouses and drones operators as the hidden dirty work that is essential to capitalism * "The New McCarthyism Censorship," with Garland Nixon

* Actor Yul Vazquez Talks White House Plumbers and Godfather Of Harlem * The Rubber Stamp Man: Poems and Snippets from Political activist and poet, Mitchel Cohen, Part 2 * 32 Sounds: Filmmaker Sam Green on his immersive new documentary on the power of sound * Garland Nixon commentary on those who push our buttons

** Comedian W. Kamau Bell Talks Growing Up Mixed: Taking up race as no laughing matter ** Red Iowa: Artists Peter Wise and Cecile Houel talk art & politics ** Jack & Rick with Bob & Ray homage episode #2 ** Garland Nixon on US Empire, Crime Scenes Edition

** Chaos Of Color: A Conversation With Uriah Heep guitarist, Mick Box. ** Caitlin Johnstone on NPR and its wild biases, greasing the wheels of the US empire. ** Garland Nixon on "Why I oppose imperialism." ** The Statue of David --Controversy, Now And Then

* CNN analyst Elie Honig Talks Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It * Garland Nixon dissects how propaganda works * Broe on Dispatches: The Invaders - Alien beings from a dying empire  * Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs Of Mary Rodgers

** Filmmaker, writer John Sayles talks Jamie MacGillivray, his new novel  ** Joel Thurm visits the Hollywood casting couch ** Activist/poet Mitchel Cohen presents "The Rubber Stamp Man" Pt. 1 ** Peter Wise celebrates musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron 

** John Shipton Talks Ithaka: His struggle to free his son Julian Assange from captivity ** Art Express Artist-In-Residence Peter Wise on the necessity of artists to fight the Deep State in their work. HIs work can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/192835167@N04 ** Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most class-conscious play