Linda Stirling Unmasked: The Black Whip




AGORA
: Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history. A kind of purge that was apparently big business back then.


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5/11/16

Nuit Debout: Why Not! A Conversation with French New Wave Screen Legend, Anna Karina


**Nuit Debout - Why Not! French screen legend and Godard muse Anna Karina phones in to Arts Express to discuss a New Wave classics retrospective touring this country. And her thoughts about new generations of French youth breaking ground as well, in the streets.

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**Mr. Smith Does Not Go To Washington: Treat Williams talks dismayed and dropping out of DC politics, in his latest movie as, The Congressman. Along with thoughts about his own representative from up at his Vermont farm where the actor lives to get away from it all, Bernie Sanders.

**Blood At The Root: Race on stage dramatizing the case of the Jena Six
, a production of the National Black Theatre. A conversation with the director John McCrory and producer Camille Forbes. Chris Butters reports.

Arts Express: Airing on WBAI Radio in NY and the Pacifica National Radio Network and Affiliate Stations.