Best With Host Prairie Miller Podcasts (2025)

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Arts Express 9-24-25 Featuring Charlie McDowell 53:01

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* Charlie McDowell Talks The Summer Book, His Dad Malcolm McDowell, Dear White People - & his uncredited bully in Curb Your Enthusiasm * AE Paris Correspondent Broe on Trump's defunding of public tv & radio - the sledgehammer solution * Flags Half Mast at Guantanamo's McDonalds * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 9-17-25 Featuring Tim Blake Nelson 53:04

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*Tim Blake Nelson Talks Bang Bang, as a down & out Detroit ex-boxer. Also, The Lowdown, & Nelson's status as a continuing master of many movie hats * More Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News * Broe reports on the mass rage on the streets of Paris * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 9-10-25 featuring Chris Cooper 53:04

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* Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, the journey of two WWI era music conservationists who record and preserve rural ballads; & John Sayles' Matewan * Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News, with author Alec Karakatsanis * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 9-3-25 Featuring Melissa Leo 52:55

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* The Knife: Melissa Leo on playing a deceptively concerned sinister cop in her new film; & also, her turn as Laura Poitras in Snowden * Bro on the new Manchurian candidates * Painting Klansmen: How Philip Guston explored themes of violence, evil and complicity * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 8-27-25 Featuring Patricia Clarkson 53:12

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* Lilly: Patricia Clarkson as real life blue collar worker Lilly Ledbetter, fighting Goodyear Tire--and prevailing! * Action Will Be Taken--a comic Labor Noir * In The Disruption: On the writings of philosopher and former bank robber, Bernard Stiegler * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 8-20-25 Featuring Director Oliver Assayas 53:04

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* Suspended Time: Oliver Assayas talks about his existential voyage through the Covid lockdown. Also Carlos, and his Putin in Wizard Of The Kremlin * Return to Fukushima, an irradiated world * Bro on The Summit, Who Wants Peace? * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 8-13-25 Featuring Michael Chernus 52:54

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* Michael Chernus Talks Birthrite, Orange Is The New Black, and playing Theo Bikel in A Complete Unknown * Return to Fukushima: the false promise and real danger of nuclear power with investigative journalist Thomas Bass * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 8-6-25 Featuring Jim O'Heir 53:04

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* Actor Jim O'Heir Talks Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, Parks And Recreation, & Edgar Allan Poe's Mystery Dinner Party * AE Paris Correspondent Dennis Broe on the EU tariff surrender, weapons, Ukraine, & blackmail * On the 80th anniversary of the US horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima, some reflections... * & Garland Nixon!…

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Arts Express 7-29-25 Featuring Thomas Jane 53:02

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* Thomas Jane Talks Hung, Breaking Bad, and Murder At Yellowstone City: the western genre as wild west police state allegory * Nautilus - a reimagining of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea * Red Star Cafe: Denzel Washington on propaganda * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 7-23-25 Featuring Lou Diamond Phillips 52:55

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* Lou Diamond Phillips: La Bamba, Che, Stand And Deliver - and among the miners trapped in The 33 * Union: Pt 2 convo on the Amazon Labor Union film doc * Red Star Cafe: who is Vera Caspary, linking McCarthyism, film noir, and Gaza * & Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 7-16-25 Featuring James Mockoski 53:01

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* Apocalypse Now, Megalopolis, Godfather III & more- A Conversation with Coppola collaborator James Mockoski * Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing talk Union: fighting for the first Amazon union in the nation * And Garland Nixon!By With Host Prairie Miller

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Arts Express 7-9-25 Featuring Maggie Q 53:11

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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 53:05

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* 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. 52:59

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* 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 53:05

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* 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 53:02

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* 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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Arts Express 6-4-25 Featuring K Callan 53:03

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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 53:06

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* 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 52:51

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* 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 52:56

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* 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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Arts Express 5-7-25 Featuring John Lynch 53:03

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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 52:55

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* 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 52:40

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* 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 52:49

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* 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 53:00

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* 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 53:04

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* 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 53:07

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* 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 52:52

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* 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 53:02

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* 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 52:44

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* 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 53:02

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* 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 53:06

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* 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 53:09

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* 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 52:48

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* 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 53:01

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* 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 53:02

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* 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 53:12

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* 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 52:52

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* 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 52:40

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* 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 53:14

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* 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 53:15

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* 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 52:42

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* 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 53:09

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* 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 53:12

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* 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 53:06

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* 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 53:14

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* 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 52:52

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* 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 53:11

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* 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 52:42

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* 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 53:13

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* 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