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Desperate to reach a more mobile audience, some newspapers are turning to podcasting. A growing number now offer Internet radio programs, sending stories from their pages to iPods and other players.

Slate contributor Seth Stevenson reviews a new series of commercials from General Electric. The company's "eco-imagination" campaign takes off with a spot featuring sexy supermodels working in a coal mine.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new documentary Rock School. The film depicts the real-life school of rock in Philadelphia.

Researchers in London who analyzed the final novel by author Iris Murdoch have detected signs of Alzheimer's disease in the book's language. Murdoch wrote Jackson's Dilemma just before she was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Dr. Peter Garrard, lead author of the study.

The emotional letters from fallen soldiers in Iraq are the subject of a new HBO documentary, Last Letters Home: Voices of Americans from the Battle of Iraq. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to Academy Award-winner Couturié, the director and producer of the film, and Cathy Heighter, mother of soldier Rasheen Heighter.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new DVD, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman: Their Ford 50th Anniversary Show Appearance.

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, about a new exhibit featuring the remains and possessions of King Tutankhamun.

In the year of the famed sleuth's 150th birthday, Norton has published "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes." With more than 700 illustrations and 1,000 annotations, the two-volume set is the definitive edition of the Holmes canon. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to editor Leslie Klinger.

Genocide, abortion and child abuse are not the most uplifting themes for the holiday season, but those subjects are exactly what Hollywood is delivering to theaters this year. NPR's Bob Mondello has a look at the dark side of filmdom's seasonal blitz.

An article in Audubon Magazine recalls the 19th century effort that ended the feather trade. Until a public outcry stopped the practice, thousands of birds across North America were slaughtered to provide decorations for women's hats. Hear Jennifer Price, author of the article, and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.