** "I've never taken a stereotypical role, unless to really explore what it is to be a stereotypical woman. Partly because I don't look like one - I'm six foot and I'm pretty Amazonian!.."

Janet McTeer Talks The Artist - and her Professor Minerva McGonagall in the next Harry Potter, following in the footsteps of the late Maggie Smith. The star as well of Ozark, Tumbleweeds, Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, The Menu, Paint It Black, Maleficent, Albert Nobbs, Velvet Goldmine, and as Sarah Bernhardt portraying Hamlet in Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway, McTeer is our guest on the show, in a conversation about this and more...

Janet McTeer As Sarah Bernhardt Portraying Hamlet 

And never too meek about challenges for women on stage or screen, the British actress is no less bold and adventurous as the strange spouse of Mandy Patinkin in the satirical dramatic series The Artist, a caricature of the late 19th century Gilded Age. And a term famously and ironically coined by Mark Twain back then, during a time of ruthless robber barons living in lavish splendor while exploiting and oppressing the masses - and 'glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath...'

*** "What I found out in America today, is people know the music but they don't know the words..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon fine tunes the corporate media chaos. With connections to false flags, the Manchester bombing, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad, the Hong Kong fire, Wesley Snipes - and the backstory to Star Trek that didn't make it into the series...

Plus...Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe in an Arts Express conversation about the importance of independent radio all over the globe. Stay tuned and all will be revealed...

Arts Express Poetry Interlude...'Ode For The American Dead In Korea.' - penned by the late North Dakota poet, Tom McGrath. And not unlike today with its endless wars, and no peace treaty ever signed between the North and South - while millions slaughtered just as in Vietnam that followed...'