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The movie is based on the 2010 nonfiction book by Laura Hillenbrand about a U.S. Olympic track star who survives a plane crash during World War II only to be taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Tom Manoff reviews a new CD by the Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin that features exciting performances of some less than famous composers. The CD is Ouvertueren (Overtures): Music for the Hamburg Opera is on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Up! is the great misunderstood R.E.M. album, a noirish cycle filled with unsettling songs and "environments" that are brooding worlds away from the group's jangle-pop hits. Heard on its own, apart from the rest of R.E.M.'s output, it emerges as a graceful studio exploration.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large for the Oxford English Dictionary, about the origin of the word "lobbyist" -- and how that word has been used through the centuries.

Almost a year after Elliott Smith's death, his highly anticipated sixth solo CD is being released. NPR's Elizabeth Blair talks to the friends and family who helped complete From a Basement on the Hill.

Hear interviews and performances by an actress-turned-singer and two singers-turned-actors. Driver just released her second album of pop, soul and blues, while The Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova star in the indie film sensation Once.

Jhunjhunwala, a chartered accountant from the northern state of Rajasthan, began investing in the stock market while he was still in college, starting off with capital of just 5,000 rupees ($63).

Jonathan Meiburg sounds as focused and intense as ever on his band's ninth album, which is full of rock songs that churn and clatter with force, invention and mystery.

A melancholy track about living in the moment from fine purveyors of globally minded house music.

Alt.Latino's Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras just got back from New York, where they watched some amazing live bands and discovered fantastic new records. Join them as they sit in Central Park — alongside listeners who stopped by to say hola — and share their favorite discoveries.