Arts Express

* 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!

* 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!

* 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 

* 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!

* 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!

* 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

* 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!

* 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

* 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

* 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! 

* 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!

* 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!

* 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!

* 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 needles 

* 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

* 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 Stories

* 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 Nixon

* 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!

* 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!