Arts Express

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!

Arts Express 3-19-25 Featuring Author Elizabeth Hand

* 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!

Arts Express 3-12-25 Featuring Casper Van Dien

* 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 class

Arts Express 3-5-25 Featuring MSNBC Host Alex Wagner

* 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!

Arts Express 2-26-25 Featuring Peter Browngardt

* 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 AI

Arts Express 2-19-25 Featuring Renee Taylor

* 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 thriller