WBAI-NYC Upcoming Program

WBAI-FM Upcoming Program

Arts Express

Wed, Sep 9, 2026 9:00 PM

JASON ISAACS CHECKS IN

** "The United States can't admit it's been defeated, because it is admitting they no longer rule the world - those days are over, brother..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on the US stumbling back into war against Iran - as the wheels come off the cart at the Department Of War. And what all of this has to do with the midterms, chicken feathers versus turkey feathers, Trump staging political release parties as if for a movie that's never coming out, all about supporting the narrative that has nothing to do with the real world - and 'a horrifically emotionally broken man who couldn't be a manager at McDonalds, don't put him around sharp objects - that's Pete Hegseth...'

** "That's why I'm an actor - to try and take on complicated people, and tell those complicated stories about humans..."

Jason Isaacs Talks The Salt Path, Victorian Psycho, His Cary Grant, And The Toronto Film Festival...The White Lotus, West Wing and Armageddon actor in a conversation about his latest among no less than 250 films - the dramatic true story of The Salt Path, based on the real life struggle to survive as Moth Winn and his wife Raynor, played by Gillian Anderson, rural farmers who lose everything wander homeless across the English wilderness.

And the British actor, who has portrayed Peter The Great, Cary Grant, Mephisto, Dracula, Captain Hook and Satan twice, delves as well into his upcoming dark psychological comedic period thriller, Victorian Psycho. In which he inhabits Mister Pounds, described as 'the enigmatic and mercurial owner of a remote estate, hiring an eccentric governess with violent psychopathic tendencies.' Isaacs is on the line from London, and on his way to the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of another film co-starring with Anderson, The Julia Set.

Plus...Arts Express Special Edition - surreal political excursions into The Trump Twilight Zone...

JASON ISAACS