**Painkiller: Bill Oberst Jr. Talks Wounded Monster Metaphors, Haunted Plantation Ruins

**Everybody: A Book About Freedom - British Writer Olivia Laing In A Conversation With Jack Shalom

**Radio Drama Corner: An excerpt from The Bermudez Triangle.

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**Tamala Jones Talks about her new series Rebel based on Erin Brockovich

**Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview And Other Conversations: Hayden Herrera discusses the life and work of Frida Kahlo

**Broe On The 150th anniversary of The Paris Commune

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**Michael Paré Talks Painkiller, That Big Pharma Other Pandemic

**Last Will And Testament: Who Really Wrote The Shakespeare Plays?

**Copyright Wrongs

*Filmmaker Ken Burns takes the Arts Express Hot Seat, as Prairie Miller probes his controversial documentary, Hemingway.

*Radio Drama Corner: the verse of Paul Hostovsky, performed by Jack Shalom

**Rock Legend Don McLean Talks American Pie - And What Happened To Music Along The Way

**The Lost Family: A Continuing Conversation with Libby Copeland about DNA testing

**Plus...Poetry for a troubled time

**Comedian/actor Eddie Izzard Talks Nazis, Lenny Bruce, Six Minutes To Midnight

*Laraine Newman Talks SNL, "Darker Truths" In Her Memoir

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**Paul Robeson's Love Song: Tayo Aluko Reports From Liverpool

**Hot Seat: Before Cuomo There Was...Mike Wallace. Ticking Clock - Behind The Scenes At 60 Minutes. Veteran 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen 

**20th century satirist Stephen Leacock's 'How To Make A Million Dollars.'

*Margaret Cho On Staying Funny And Mining Comedy During The Pandemic Crisis

*The Hot Seat: NY Times columnist Charles Blow Talks The Devil You Know.

*AMORALMAN: Jack Shalom dissects the multi-media work of the provocative performer, magician and cardsharp, Derek DelGaudio

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*How It Feels To Be Free: Director Yoruba Richen On Capturing The Lives Of Black Female Legends In Her Documentary

*Beth Grant Talks Going Toe To Toe With Nicolas Cage In A Movie, And Redefining Women On Screen

*Radio Drama Corner: Mary Murphy performs the poetry of Molly Peacock