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Her Story So Far focuses on outside-the-box conversations with badass female creatives. These women are birthing amazing passion projects in the 2nd and 3rd chapters of their lives. Host Lesley Whitehead is an artist, visual storyteller and multi-passionate marketer. She believes age shouldn’t stop you from achieving your dreams or make you invisible to the world. Join us to be inspired by the wit, wisdom and one-of-a-kind experiences of these amazing women.
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* Talking With Maggie Q: Ballard--a disturbing look at the LAPD where 'the way things were may not exist anymore...' * Shifty: The Land Of Make Believe. Thought in the age of AI, a 5 part BBC series * Red Star Cafe with Trump turning up on July 4th in Iowa * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 7-2-25 Featuring Actress Dale Dickey
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53:05* Tough-as-nails Winter Bones actress Dale Dickey Talks Feminist Fatale political crime thriller The G, Breaking Bad, and Kissyfoot * The NYC Dem Primary Victory Of Zohran Mamdani: two views * Reframing the 4th of July, politics & poetry * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 6-25-25 Featuring Ed Begley Jr.
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52:59* Ed Begley Jr. Talks The Workplace Noir Don't Tell Larry, as well as the LA uprisings and his blue collar, character actor father * Cabbages and Kings: Mass protest in Brooklyn falls short * 5 Minute Marxist at the Red Star Cafe talks warmonger Lindsey Graham * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 6-18-25 Featuring Seth Green
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53:05* Seth Green Talks The Floaters, Comedy In A Broken World - and what's going down on the streets of LA * UK Desk: John Cliffords on The US Water Crisis * The Toxic Masculinity Family Tree: Errol Musk speaks * Juneteenth: 'Gates Of Toil' A poetic tributeBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 6-11-25 Featuring Nina Conti
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53:02* Sunlight, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues: A Conversation with UK puppeteer Nina Conti * The One Minute Marxist: Red Iowa, a look at Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, Medicaid and death * UK Desk: The Birmingham garbage strike * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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* K Callan Talks Sew Torn, playing mothers Of Superman and John The Baptist, and memories of Peter Boyle * Shakespeare Noir & Darkest LA: Welles, Kurosawa & The Journey Of Simon McKeever * The Manifesto of Elias Rodriguez * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 5-28-25 Featuring Jai Courtney
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53:06* Jai Courtney Talks Dangerous Animals, a 21st century subversive take on Moby Dick symbolism * Bro On The Politics Of Fire: Dresden, Hiroshima, racism, class & imperialism * Julian Assange Speaks At the Cannes Film Festival. Or rather, doesn't... * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 5-21-25 Featuring Jason Isaacs
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52:51* Jason Isaacs, Master of Disguises, Talks Words Of War, The White Lotus, and The Salt Path * AE Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe reporting on the ground, A Tale Of Two WWII Victory Day Celebrations * Garland Nixon in conversation with George Galloway * Letter from Burkina Faso President and African revolutionary, Ibrahim Traore to Pope Le…
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Arts Express 5-14-25 Featuring Director Bille August
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52:56* Director Bille August Talks The Kiss & wars on screen and also outside the theaters * Palestine Resistance Cinema Online * Bro on the new spring streaming season--Nazis, Silicon Valley, a UFO, the Mossad, and terrorist pagers * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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* John Lynch Talks Sew/Torn, & Some Mother's Son. The Northern Ireland actor revisits his portrayal of IRA revolutionary Bobby Sands * Shoumita Dasgupta: Where Biology Ends And Bias Begins * UK Desk: Deciphering The New Flesh * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-30-25 Featuring Keith David
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52:55* Keith David Talks Sneaks, Platoon, and his Frederick Douglass Portrayals On Screen * The Prison Poems Of Ho Chi Minh * Bro On Prime Target - Resisting Surveillance *And Garland Nixon Deciphering DonaldBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-23-25 Featuring Lesley Ann Warren
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52:40* Nora: Lesley Ann Warren, exploring her latest film, and the struggles of women to reinvent themselves * UK Desk: John Greenaway Talks Capitalism: A Horror Story * Bro On Series Mania 2025 - The largest TV festival in the world * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-16-25 Featuring Beth Grant
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52:49* The Bondsman - A Conversation With Beth Grant who teams up with Kevin Bacon in this unusual supernatural crime noir thriller series. * Brush Up Your Shakespeare--The Winter's Tale: Negotiating Trauma * Bro on the Crime Novel 2025 * And Garland Nixon, and a NATO bombing song parody by Mitchel Cohen!…
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Arts Express 4-8-25 Featuring Actor Claes Bang
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53:00* Danish actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell & also playing Dracula * Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll * Bro On The UK series Adolescence: school violence and an endorsement from Keir Starmer * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 4-2-25 featuring Steve Coogan
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53:04* Steve Coogan Talks The Penguin Lessons & his 4 roles in the Dr. Strangelove stage adaptation * Broe and Prof Toby Miller from our Mexico City desk: Trump may be bad for the US - but very good for CBS * Tribute to the artist and political activist, the late Tom Keough * UK Desk rebuttal re Repeater books…
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Arts Express 3-26-25 Featuring Amy Schumacher
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53:07* Amy Schumacher Talks Screamboat and her MFA at a Russian acting conservatory * Bro on Sports: Vegas gambling halls; Trump, Israel and money laundering - & the world's 8th richest woman * Red Rosa: Kate Evans reads Luxemburg's letters *And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-19-25 Featuring Author Elizabeth Hand
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52:52* Elizabeth Hand Talks First Word On Horror & the new series featuring horror writers reading from their work * UK Desk: Erasure, Retaliation, Corporate Executing - The case of Repeater Books * Red Rosa (Luxemburg): Kate Evans on her graphic history of the great socialist * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-12-25 Featuring Casper Van Dien
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53:02* Casper Van Dien, known for Starship Troopers, takes a detour with the unconventional, post-Civil War western, Guns Of Redemption * UK Desk: 'Staring into the abyss.' * Bro on Steven Knight's drama, charting the brutality of the British ruling classBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 3-5-25 Featuring MSNBC Host Alex Wagner
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52:44* MSNBC Host Alex Wagner Checks In - Or Rather Out, of her just cancelled show. And Trumpland * Rebel youth singer/songwriter Jesse Welles * Bro on the Arts Express with a stopover in Austria, rejecting the drive toward war with Russia * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-26-25 Featuring Peter Browngardt
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53:02* The Day The Earth Blew Up. Peter Browngardt, the writer, director, animator and co-star of the latest Looney Tunes incarnation * Firesign - A continuing conversation re the Firesign Theatre with author Jeremy Braddock * And Garland Nixon on AIBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-19-25 Featuring Renee Taylor
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53:06* Renee Taylor Talks Magic Hour, playing Eva Braun in The Producers & her bond with late husband Joseph Bologna * Firesign - Jeremy Braddock on the 1970s surreal comedy foursome, The Firesign Theatre * Bro reads from The Dark Ages, his latest mystery thrillerBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-12-25 Featuring Renate Reinsve
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53:09* Renate Reinsve Talks Armand and A Different Man, and what it's like to be directed by the grandson of Ingmar Bergman & Liv Ullmann * UK Desk: Reflections on the late Japanese novelist, Osamu Dazai, forced to renounce his communism * And Amiri Baraka and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 2-5-25 Featuring Tommy Davidson
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52:48* Tommy Davidson Talks "Stronger" & his stunning, musical collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fire * JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey talk The Strike, inmate hunger strikers 30,000 strong * Sergei Toymentsev on Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Of Contradictions * and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 1-29-25 Featuring Director Rob Tregenza
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53:01* Filmmaker Rob Tregenza on The Fishing Place, his WWII Norway Nazis revisited reverie, and The Sad And Lonely Death Of Edgar Allan Poe * The Strike: the story of the 30,000 prisoner hunger strike started by the inmates in solitary at Pelican Bay Prison * Bro on The Journey of Simon McKeever, the film that never happened *And Garland Nixon!…
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Arts Express 1-22-25 Featuring Jacqueline Bisset
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53:02* Jacqueline Bisset Talks Loren & Rose, Truffaut, Sinatra, Surviving Hollywood - and the LA fires * UK Desk: Remembering David Lynch--who "gave me permission in a way, to believe in myself." * The Ultimate Hidden Truth Of The World: David Graeber * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 1-15-25 Featuring Jason Flemyng
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53:12* The Stoic: A Conversation with actor & activist Jason Flemyng * Dennis Broe's The Dark Ages Return, his latest Harry Palmer mystery thriller * UK Desk: A political, historical and surreal faceoff, channeling chaos, Zuckerberg, and cactus needlesBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 1-8-25 Featuring Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez
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52:52* The Sing Sing Chronicles with prisoner turned actor, Jon-Adrian 'JJ' Velazquez * "The Mockingbird" by Ambrose Bierce * UK Desk: Four reasons why a nuclear weapon has not gone off as yet *And Shahid Bolsen!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 1-1-25 Featuring Sally Kirkland
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52:40* That Other Dylan Movie - Sally Kirkland Talks Sallywood * My Friend, The Terrorist: Part 2 on the Filipino revolutionary, Jose Maria Sison * UK Desk: Luigi, healthcare, and anger * Broe's new book, The Dark Ages: Stories, Stories And More StoriesBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-25-24 Featuring Rod Serling's Daughter, Anne
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53:14* Rod Serling On His 100th Birthday Anniversary - daughter Anne Serling on her memoir As I Knew Him * UK Desk: 'Van Gogh Has A Broken Heart": Russell Ramsay expounds * My Friend The Terrorist : a new doc on the Filipino guerrilla army leader, "Joma" * And Garland NixonBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-18-24 Featuring Alicia Witt
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53:15* Alicia Witt Talks Longlegs, Her Music, Movies, And Her Creative Process Musically * UK Desk: April Brucker: - actress, author, comedienne, and ventriloquist... * Dickens and the real Christmas Carol story And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-11-24 Featuring Actress Judy Greer
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52:42* Judy Greer Talks White House Plumbers, and moving on from Halloween to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever * UK Desk: After The Flying Saucers Came - A Global History Of UFOs * Dennis Broe unearths the 2024 Top Television Series * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 12-4-24 Featuring Director Errol Morris
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53:09* Errol Morris Takes The Hot Seat in a conversation about his latest documentary, Separated * A tour through the US's first Palestine Museum * UK Desk: Confessions Of A Mask - A Deep Dive Into The Confounding Mind of Yukio Mishima * and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-27-24 Featuring Ron Perlman
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53:12* Ron Perlman Talks Day Of The Fight, Hellboy, Bread And Roses, and Memories Of Brando * UK Desk: Not Just An Activist: A Conversation With Gaza hunger striker Lizzie Greenwood * "The Many Faces Of Jack," a possibly true supernatural disturbing Thanksgiving story * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-20-24 Featuring Jennifer Hudson
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53:06* Jennifer Hudson Talks Portraying Aretha Franklin, And Her Current Tour * Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain and how to understand the effects of genocide * UK Desk: A Conversation with the founder of The London Breeze Film Festival * Bro's Election Wrap-UpBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-13-24 Featuring Alistair McGowan
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53:14* Alistair McGowan Talks I Am Alfred Hitchcock, A perfectly legal act of identity theft * A Conversation With William Banks. The actor/writer takes us through his arrest and trial * Sonny Boy: A Memoir. A window into the extraordinary life of Al Pacino *And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 11-6-24 Featuring Armand Assante
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52:52* Armand Assante probes the troubled figures he portrays in film: Don Q, When Nietzsche Wept, and Gotti 2 * A Cuban leader's speech--and the deterioration of US political language * UK Desk: Busted! And...'Now let's talk about Zardoz' * and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 10-29-24 Featuring Louis Lombardi
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53:11* Louis Lombardi Talks 'Director's Cut' Horror, Jesus on TV, The Sopranos, and 24--and being directed by Oliver Stone * UK Desk: Fear of Music, A Conversation With David Stubbs * Clown Show with Garland NixonBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 10-23-24 Featuring Andie Macdowell
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52:42* Andie MacDowell on starring as a mother of a daughter strung out on meth in Good Girl Jane, & new film Goodrich * UK desk: the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas * Japanese ghost story, "Jikininki" by Lafcadio Hearn * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 10-16-24 Featuring Director Uwe Boll
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53:13* Director Uwe Boll Talks First Shift, Assault On Wall Street, and Endless Wars * The Backyard Bird Chronicles with Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan * UK Desk: cinema historian and critic Ian Nathan on Steven Spielberg * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 10-9-24 Featuring Steve Guttenberg
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53:06* Steve Guttenberg talks Paper Empire, The Boys From Brazil, and his new memoir * CIA: Drugs R Us!, Some of the most evil CIA programs * Bro on Rediscovering Radical Palestinian Cinema, Hope for the Future * UK Desk: A Prophet In The Darkness: Art critic, author and pastor Wesley Vander LugtBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 10-02-24 Featuring Dinesh D'Souza
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53:10*Dinesh D'Souza on The AE Hot Seat explaining his unusual promo bio for his film, Vindicating Trump *Bob & Ray-ish October Surprise Homage *UK Desk: With Mary Caldwell, the wife of soul music legend Bobby Caldwell and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 9-25-24 Featuring Kevin Corrigan
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53:05* Kevin Corrigan and Sadie Bones talk If That Mockingbird Don't Sing & Steal This Movie * UK Desk: Anti-Oculus - A Philosophy of Escape, Jack Clarke's analysis of The Acid Horizon Collective * Mitchel Cohen: Political Prisoner, Requiem For The Other 9/11By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 9-18-24 Featuring Director Alex Gibney
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53:17* Wiseguy, and The Bibi Files: Director Alex Gibney films gangsters in two current docs: one on The Sopranos, and the other, Netanyahu * Pete Seeger on The Peekskill Riots against Paul Robeson * UK Desk: Hungry Ghosts In The Machine with Mike WatsonBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 9-11-24 Featuring Trump Nephew Fred Trump III
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52:48* Fred Trump Talks All In The Family - The Trumps And How We Got That Way * Artist Carlito Rovira on taking artistic inspiration from revolutionary struggle * UK Desk: A People Under Siege: The Unionists Of Northern Ireland From Partition To Brexit And BeyondBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 9-4-24 Featuring Radha Mitchell
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53:01* Radha Mitchell Talks Take My Hand, Finding Neverland, And Kerouac's Lover In Big Sur * Self-described Young Lord for life Carlito Rovira discusses painting revolutionaries * UK desk: Jack Clarke and Matthew Alford on military video gamesBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 8-28-24 Featuring Natalie Dormer
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52:50* Natalie Dormer talks The Wasp, Game Of Thrones, And Females On The Edge * Happy Campers: Filmmaker Amy Nicholson on her portrait of community, scrappy trailers, and circling developers * UK Desk: Steve Tibble Talks Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain * Nicole Shanahan on RFK Jr's withdrawalBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 8-21-24 Featuring Director William Nunez
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53:24* Cancer, Cinemascope And The Bomb. Director William Nunez Talks The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout * UK Desk: A Conversation With Huda Ammori, leader of the Palestine Action Guerrilla Network shaking things up by taking direct action * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 8-14-24 Featuring Jack Huston
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53:06* Sex, Lies And Minnesota: Jack Huston on portraying RFK in The Irishman, and his latest production uncovering the underground '70s married suburban couples sexuality movement * To The Rescue: Three by Caitlin Johnstone * Jack Clarke: Making sense of the massive UK race riots * And Garland Nixon on Kamala…
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Arts Express 8-7-24 Featuring Actor Gabriel Byrne
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52:59* Gabriel Byrne talks about his portrayal of Samuel Beckett in Dance First, and the John Wick sequel, Ballerina * The Dry Harvest: Jack Clarke in discussion with Zimbabwe filmmaker and digital activist Malon Murape * Garland Nixon on America Right NowBy With Host Prairie Miller
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Arts Express 7-31-24 Featuring Actor Iain Glen
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52:36* Iain Glen Talks Game Of Thrones, and his latest, The Last Front, depicting the WW I invasion of Belgium * John Washington: more on The Case for Open Borders * Jack Clarke, UK desk, deconstructs police brutality and mass resistance * Broe on the French elections and Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller
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