Arts Express

* Actor William Moseley talks about playing Edgar Allan Poe in Raven's Hollow * Fighting Times: Union activist and hellraiser Jon Melrod on his new memoir about his UAW years and his hope for the new generation

** The Umbrella Men at the Toronto Film Festival: A new satirical film about a Cape Town crime spree as musicians lock horns with a bank scheming to take over their local performance space  ** The CIA and the Hollywood Industrial Complex ** How Fox News Lies For Big Business

** Tony Danza Talks Tupac, Taxi, Collaborating With MC Hammer And James Brown, and his new one-man show ** Patton Oswalt tries on a new hat as movie critic  ** Mark Twain's once censored "War Prayer"

* Jena Malone Talks Adopting Audrey: in which her film character Audrey  embarks in search of adult adoption for her economic survival * Labor Day Weekend Films: memorable films of union and workplace struggle * More Russian pranksters with Ian McKellan

* Rachel Dratch as the unconventional girlfriend in I Love My Dad; The Principal in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse; and her iconic SNL character, Debbie Downer *"Taken for Granted:" Why we need to overcome underwriting * And Russian pranksters!

* A Conversation With Actor Emile Hirsch who stars in The Immaculate Room, more Economic Crisis Cinema * Uncancelling the war news, we air CBS's cancelled 'Arming Ukraine' - The Director's Cut

** Patton Oswalt Talks Hot Weather and his new film, I Love My Dad ** AE Playhouse: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "If I Were A Man" ** Bro on "Mr. Caruso Goes To Town": channeling Frank Capra to whitewash corporate developers

** Christopher Serrone Talks Goodbye Goodfellas. The actor was just 12 when he starred as the young Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. ** Art And Violence: Gun Show artist David Hess makes mock guns to promote discussion ** Bro On Chinese Cinema and Biden's Neo-Cons 

** Cabaret and GoldenEye actor Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod talk about their true story of deception, My Old School ** Nana Mensah Talks Queen Of Glory and finding the humanity of the central character Meeko, a Latin Kings gang member turned actor

** Hotel Portofino: Natascha McElhone as the proprietor of a deceptively serene hotel, dodging Italian fascists. She also talks about Surviving Picasso and her new film Carmen. ** You're Not My Enemy, The Media Is: the "Media outrage machine."

* Jim Messina looks back on his musical journey, his latest album, tour, and Loggins & Messina * Bro On The Global Television Beat: How To Organize A Union: 'The Porter' And Black Militancy  * A performance of poet Kenneth Patchen, featuring Arts Express crew actress extraordinaire, Mary Murphy

* A Conversation With Montel Williams. About racism and his latest film - When George Floyd Got Murdered. * "Meet Juan Guaido": Frank Capra's 1941 populist comedy Meet John Doe - rerun as imperialist farce. * F. Kafka's "Before the Law"

** Ben Crump Talks Civil: A new documentary about the acclaimed civil rights attorney's activism ** Destiny of Civilization: Michael Hudson's book on the rentier class destroying the world ** Bro on the Global TV beat

** Carl Lumbly Talks Birth Of The Cool: The eminent veteran actor of color's portrayal of Miles Davis  and more. ** The Youth Report: Deep dive into the media's U-Turn on Ukraine

* Graham Nash Talks Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Music, Memories, War - and a multitude of magical moments through the years * Concert In The Barn: A conversation with musician, composer, 'earth music' pioneer and 7-time Grammy Award winner Paul Winter

* Veteran film director Terence Davies on Benediction, about anti-war poet Sigfried Sassoon * Shimrit Lee Talks Decolonize Museums: stolen goods, enslaved Africans, and the MOVE bombing * Bro on TV: Baltimore and Paris killer cops

** Rory Culkin Talks Under The Banner Of Heaven, pertaining to the crimes and coverups of the Mormon Church ** Things Aren't What They Appear To Be: how magic reminds us we're vulnerable to deception and propaganda ** George Bush Gets Pranked! **The One-Minute Marxist

* David Patrick Kelly talks David Lynch, Walter Hill, James Agee, Irish Accents, and depicting folklorist John Lomax in Night Music * Castro's Spies: Director Gary Lennon on his documentary depicting the heroic undercover Cubans known as the Cuban Five infiltrating Miami 

* Shiloh Fernandez Talks Private Property, touching on class divisions, race, sex, immigration, and economic disparities * Karl Marx's birthday brings The Communist Manifesto--a dramatic reading  * Cancel Culture Un-Cancelled 

* Adieu Lacan: A Conversation with Actor David Patrick Kelly * Book Corner: Desegregation of the NYC Schools with author Theresa Canada, herself part of a 1960s desegregation experiment *Bro on Lost People, Places And Spaces: The 2022 Crime Novel

* Mia Frampton Talks Coast: A coming of age film. And Mia speaks of growing up with her father Peter Frampton's music as the soundtrack to her life. * The Price Of Immortality: A Conversation With Author Peter Ward on the attempts to live forever

** Scott Turow Talks The Last Trial: The lawyer turned novelist and screenwriter discusses his latest courtroom suspense thriller ** Bro On Mr. Zelensky Goes To Washington: Media Gaslighting The US Into War ** Prank call to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel!

* American Traitor: The Trial Of Axis Sally, A Conversation With Actress Lala Kent * Measure For Measure:  Shakespeare's #Me Too play finds a young woman being pressured into sex. Who will believe her? * Bro On Le Pen Vs. Macron - Just Feuding Neighbors?

It's the anniversary of both Shakespeare's birthday and death day April 23rd. In celebration we present our radio adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most intriguing and timely plays, Measure For Measure. Measure For Measure is Shakespeare's #Me Too play: a young woman about to enter a nunnery learns of her brother's impending death for out-of-marriage fornication; but the hypocritical Lord Angelo...

** Actor Jim Broadbent talks his new films, The Duke and Charlotte. ** Ballad of an American: the autobiography of leftist "Joe Hill" composer Earl Robinson ** Dennis Broe reporting from Paris on Macron and Le Pen, as the two compete to be President.