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You know her voice from "Breathe," a song that filled the airwaves for a car ad. Now Scottish singer Angela McCluskey has a debut solo CD: "The Things We Do." She chats with NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

NPR's Tony Cox speaks with jazz guitar virtuoso Russell Malone. His new CD is Playground.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Speedo, a PBS documentary about demolition derbies.

Some of the world's most powerful leaders have sent their personal cooks to Washington for a chef summit. Walter Scheib is the president of an organization of chefs to the world's heads of state -- and the White House chef. He'll oversee this evening's proceedings and the recipe swapping.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews To Tulsa and Back by J.J. Cale, and Roll It Down by Canadian-American Ray Bonneville.

Guitarist David Russell recently stopped by NPR to chat with NPR's Lisa Simeone and perform music by Barrios, Granados, Brazilian composer Dilermando Reis and Spain's Joaquin Malats.

Take two hip-hop artists on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean, add a dash of online communication, and you get the musical duo Foreign Exchange. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Emcee Phonte Coleman of North Carolina and producer Nicolay Rook of the Netherlands about their collaboration and Connected, the album it sparked.

Many films and plays present a cartoon version of science bearing little resemblance to reality. Playwright Paul Mullin prefers to explain the facts to the audience, highlighting the human drama inherent in scientific discovery. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

NPR's Noah Adams speaks with Gabriel Schechter, a researcher at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., about the quality of post-season baseball coverage by the Fox Television Network.

Pianist Thomas Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes of the globe-trotting 10-piece band Pink Martini talk with NPR's Scott Simon. The group's music can be described as a kind of world cocktail music. Hang On Little Tomato is the ensemble's latest CD.