Danish director Lone Scherfig is making a name for herself as a female director whose movies tend to focus on human relationships. "I like to see losers win," she says. Her latest film, One Day, chronicles a day in the life of two characters over the course of 20 years.

The Arctic is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the Earth, and sea ice is rapidly disappearing during the summer months. Some studies now suggest the Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summertime by the year 2030, with major repercussions in the region and beyond.

The sounds of Palestine combine with jazz and Latin funk in the New York band Shusmo. Frontman Tareq Abboushi performs songs from Shusmo's new album and discusses the music that has influenced his career.

A guitarist, songwriter and sideman extraordinaire, Cropper produced and plays on a new tribute to The 5 Royales, an R&B group that never quite got its due.

It may seem hard to believe after such a tumultuous week on Wall Street, but a few areas are showing promise.

There's a free concert taking place at a forest in Germany, and the headline acts have come from far, far away. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to New York-based artist Jeff Talman about his German sound installation, Nature of the Night Sky. Working with astrophysicist Daniel Huber, he used radiation and seismic data from stars and shaped it into music, played back after sundown each night in a Bavarian forest.

Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.

Almost 40 years ago, celebrated country singer-songwriter Tom T. Hall surprised his record label by creating a children's album, Songs of Fox Hollow. Now, Hall has teamed up with some of Nashville's independent roots-music scene to remake the time-tested classic.

NPR's summer road trip series continues with a tribute to two influential Washington, D.C., figures from the early 1900s. A 12-foot fountain in the nation's capital honors the friends, who took an ill-fated trip in 1912 aboard a brand-new ocean liner called the Titantic. Emily Friedman reports.

Jazz pianist Barbara Carroll cut her teeth in the clubs on 52nd Street in Manhattan in the late 1940s and early '50s, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holliday and Charlie Parker. Today, she's 86 and still performing.