NPR Programs: Fresh Air Podcast

Stories: 1) How Offshore Tax Havens Save Companies Billions 2) Greg Mottola: Making 'Paul' Realistically Alien

Stories: 1) Medicine's Rising Costs Put Hippocratic Oath At Risk 2) The 'Secret History' Of Baseball's Earliest Days 3) When A Rock Historian Loves Soul Singer Percy Sledge

Stories: 1) 'Win-Win': Tom McCarthy Wrestles With Morals 2) Anne Roiphe's 1950s Feminism In 'Art And Madness' 3) Remembering 'Christmas' Songwriter Hugh Martin

Story: Frank Calabrese Jr. has written a memoir about bringing down his father's murderous Chicago crime family. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank details how he helped the FBI convict his father of several murders by wearing a hidden wire and taping his father's conversations.

Stories: 1) Dr. John: A New Orleans Legend In The Hall Of Fame 2) Darlene Love: A Background Singer Takes The Spotlight 3) Neil Diamond: A 'Solitary Man' Enters The Hall Of Fame 4) 'Certified Copy': A Marvelous, Mind-Blowing Movie

Stories: 1) Filmmaker Susanne Bier, Seeking 'A Better World' 2) 'Unprotected Texts': The Bible On Sex And Marriage

Stories: 1) Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Old-Time Sounds On 'Heirloom Music' 2) Trading Wall Street For Life In A Monastery 3) On '21,' Adele's Voice Is Wise Beyond Her Years

Stories: 1) Putting Wisconsin's Union Battle In Historical Context 2) Sam Chwat, Dialect Coach To The Stars (And To Us) 3) Angels Play The Harp, Printup Plays The Trumpet

Stories: 1) A Covert Affair: When CIA Agents Fall In Love 2) 'Sweet Smell Of Success': Gossip With A Cutting Edge

Stories: 1) Alice Cooper: The Gentle Man Behind The Shock Rocker 2) Tom Waits: A Raspy Voice Heads To The Hall Of Fame 3) 'Next Great Restaurant': Delicious Reality TV 4) 'Of Gods And Men': A Moving Test Of Faith

Story: Two years after opening his award-winning Chicago restaurant Alinea, chef Grant Achatz was diagnosed with tongue cancer. He describes losing and regaining his taste in Life, on the Line. "My palate developed just as a newborn," Achatz says. "I don't recommend it, but I think it made me a better chef."

Stories: 1) Without Intervention, Lions Heading For Extinction 2) In 'Pym,' A Comic Glimpse Into Poe's Racial Politics

Stories: 1) The Long-Term Effect Of Wisconsin's Union Battles 2) Remembering Suze Rotolo, Dylan's 'Freewheeling' Muse

Story: Dirk Vandewalle, an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, gives an inside look at Qaddafi and his 42 year long rule in Libya. Vandewalle has studied and written about Libya since the 1980s. In 1986 he lived in Libya for 14 months, as the only Western scholar at the time.

Stories: 1) Melissa Leo: Playing Alice Ward In 'The Fighter' 2) Weaver And Michod Go Inside 'Animal Kingdom' 3) Natalie Portman: Going Dark For Thriller 'Black Swan' 4) A 'Hall Pass' To Cheat Keeps Marital Despair At Bay