** "She was one of those people who lights up a set, when she came on the set everyone was joyous - her intellectual fire and the laughter, the humor that will never die - that will stay with us..."

Miriam Margoyles Talks Reds, Holy Days, And Memories Of Diane Keaton. The veteran British star and advocate for Palestine in a discussion among her over 203 films, the Russian Revolution classic Reds, Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence, her Professor Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter, Beethoven's confidante Nanette Streicher in Immortal Beloved, her portrayal of Lenin's wife Krupskaya in Stalin, Right Eyeball in Family Guy - and her Gertrude Steins and Queen Victorias - both twice.

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Along with delving into her latest film, A Friend Of Dorothy, about art, seagulls and a cross-generational literary friendship with an alienated black youth, and nominated for an Oscar this past year. Plus, the 84 year old still feisty actress on her latest role in Holy Days, joining a rebel nun posse up against a greedy developer in the act of expropriating their convent.

** "Of course in war, the first thing to go is the truth - and now where are we..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon uncovers well, the whitewashing and laundering of the truth. And what really went down on that Gerald Ford US aircraft carrier, from its Caribbean mission kidnapping Maduro, to turning up near Iran and allegedly suffering clogged toilets, a laundry room fire leaving 600 sailors suffering 'smoke inhalation' resorting to sleeping on the floor - and the reported mysterious mounting statistic of over 400 troops injured in the conflict.

And what all of this may have to do with the Nuremberg trials, war and gas, Sun Tzu's art of war, banana peels, the Great Depression - and Trump threatening the media with treason charges for reporting the truth about his wars.

** "Basically these are people whose lives are affected by the sometimes whimsical ideas that Henry Ford would have..."

Crucible: Henry Ford, Workers, And War. A Conversation With John Sayles. The filmmaker, actor and author best known for the worker uprising classic, Matewan and Union Dues, on his latest historical novel. Spanning the 1920s to WWII and focusing on Henry Ford's empire, labor conflicts, and racial tensions. And with a parallel storyline in Ford's failed Amazon rubber plantation, Fordlandia - exploring themes of power, control, and American identity through a large cast of characters.

Plus...Freedom Toast...Defying the US Cuban blockade..