*Chris Matthews Takes The Arts Express Hot Seat
*A Fathers Day Fartherly Story: Arts Express Playhouse

**Arts Express, Always Fresh - Never A Repeat Show**

** "Why I came here? Start the machine. I'll tell you everything...Because the olive trees were bare, because the date trees gave no fruit..."

Radio Drama Corner: The Voyage - A Fathers Day Fatherly Story. Performed and adapted from a novel written by Jack Shalom, based in part on his Syrian immigrant grandfather's journey to this country.

** "Thank you so much, great questions - and not always easy to answer! But thank you."

The Hot Seat: Chris Matthews Checks In. Our sizzler segment this week, and we're not just talking about the steamy summer weather. The former Hardball host who resigned from MSNBC following sexual harassment charges, not to mention equating Bernie Sanders with Hitler for daring to win presidential primaries, gets some Arts Express Hot Seat interrogation on a number of controversial topics.

Including how his latest book, This Country: My Life In Politics And History raises the unintended question - what country. A memoir brimming with nostalgia about good times and personal success - and questionable timing and relevance for despairing millennials today, furious with his boomer generation leaving them with nothing - even before the pandemic.

** "It's about moving on. About learning new things. You know, it's not over when you hit a certain age. Welcome new experiences - don't be afraid."

Ann-Margret Talks Queen Bees, Bette Davis. The veteran actress who started out in Pocketful Of Miracles with Bette Davis, winning a Most Promising Golden Globe for that film, as well as an Oscar nomination for Carnal Knowledge, phones in to talk about joining an ensemble of angry, take no prisoners older women confined to a retirement home - even if a comedy. And at a time witnessing in the real world, a rise in hate crimes against elders, especially women and Asian Americans.

** "Drips with sarcasm, contempt and class analysis in its explanation of how the crime genre had been practiced by the upper class detective of the Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie school...then reimagined with Raymond Chandler as the interrogator of the class system itself - a wider repression or othering in the wake of the HUAC hearings."

Bro On The Global Literary Beat: Raymond Chandler, The Man Behind The Mask. Scrutinizing Ken Fuller's probe in his book, the many faces of Raymond Chandler - or not.

** "Creating a piece of theater that reflects young America's feelings about the political climate - and their desire to add their voices to the dialogue about injustice, human rights, identity and belonging."

Screening Room: Immigration Stories. Scenes from the stage to screen Crossways Theatre production - portrayed by urban youth, and introduced by Asian American actor Geoff Lee who is a member of the multi-racial theater devoted to diversity.