Arts Express

Arts Express 6-11-25 Featuring Nina Conti

* 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!

Arts Express 6-4-25 Featuring K Callan

* 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!

Arts Express 5-28-25 Featuring Jai Courtney

* 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!

Arts Express 5-21-25 Featuring Jason Isaacs

* 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 Leo

Arts Express 5-14-25 Featuring Director Bille August

* 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!

Arts Express 5-7-25 Featuring John Lynch

* 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!

Arts Express 4-30-25 Featuring Keith David

* 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 Donald

Arts Express 4-23-25 Featuring Lesley Ann Warren

* 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!

Arts Express 4-16-25 Featuring Beth Grant

* 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!

Arts Express 4-8-25 Featuring Actor Claes Bang

* 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!

Arts Express 4-2-25 featuring Steve Coogan

* 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 

Arts Express 3-26-25 Featuring Amy Schumacher

* 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!