40 Years A Prisoner: Mike Africa Jr. recalls, phoning in to the show from Philadelphia where it all began, his 6 year old self during the police assault and murder of his family members at their MOVE home back then, all around him. And his long struggle captured in this documentary, to free his parents since then - political prisoners for four decades. And what all of this has to do with Malcolm, Martin Luther King, Mumia, the Panthers, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Along with noting that "revolutionaries exist because the system exists." ** "I cracked the code..." Arts News: The culture wars episode this week includes: The Wednesday Night Massacre, and The Voice Of America in America - 'and a lot of CIA money is in there too.' Jason Unruhe investigates. And Jack Shalom deciphers 'the secret of one of the world's most perplexing problems.' Involving Thomas Edison, and 'a cabinet member in office for more than two weeks.' ** "Since Jane Austen wrote about women, what hasn't necessarily changed for women, is that there's a judgement that I believe is placed on women - and that you owe it to yourself to lead an authentic life." Alicia Witt On Modern Persuasion: The actress known for Twin Peaks, The Sopranos, Nashville, Citizen Ruth, The Walking Dead, and Orange Is The New Black is on the line from Nashville to talk about her current starring role in this update of the original Jane Austen novel, Persuasion - both stories focusing on the lives of women then and now. ** "A woman would never see a novel published, a play produced, a painting in a public gallery. But she would have a creative life. How did I manage - because my father, he did not feel a need to trade me like a cow in return for a sharpened plough." Radio Drama Corner: My Truths. An enactment from Jane Austen's memoirs, and what it was like to survive not only as a woman, but as a writer back then in the 1800s as well. A presentation in connection with our featured December literary birthday this month, of the eminent English novelist.