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2: Sportswriter MARK BOWDEN. He covered the Philadelphia Eagles for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" for three seasons, and now has a book about the team, "Bringing the Heat: A Pro Football Team's Quest for Glory, Fame, Immortality, and a Bigger Piece of the Action" (Knopf). The book follows the team through the 1992 season, after their coach was fired and after the death of their star defensive lineman, Jerome Brown.

A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that…

2:To get the bad taste of the previous segment out of our mouths, we play some great Christmas music, from previous Fresh Air concerts. The segment includes Susannah McCorkle, Charles Brown singing "Merry Christmas Baby," and composers Martin and Blane telling the story behind their song, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." (Rebroadcast. Originally aired 12

Former O.J. Simpson criminal defense attorney JOHNNIE COCHRAN JR talks with Terry Gross about his new book "Journey to Justice." It is published by One World Ballantine Books. The book is co-written by Los Angeles Times reporter Tim Rutten. Cochran discusses his role in winning Mr Simpson a not-guilty verdict in the slayings of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Reporter Frank Browning remembers lawyer and activist Tom Stoddard, who advanced the cause of equal rights for gay men, lesbians, people with AIDS in this country. Stoddard headed up the Lambda Legal Defense and Education fund for six years, making it a nationally influential organization, fighting discrimination against homosexuals and AIDS patients in employment, housing, health care, insurance, family law, and military service.

Debbie Elliott reports that former smoker Grady Carter of Jacksonville has become the first person to actually collect money from the tobacco industry after beating a tobacco company in court over a smoking-related illness. Carter was awarded $750,000 by a jury in 1995. He received more than $1 million from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. on Thursday as payment and interest.

Walt Harrington, a former Washington Post writer and self-confessed city slicker, discovered the joys of hunting late in life. As Harrington tells NPR's Eric Weiner for All Things Considered, he came to embrace a sport he once viewed as "archaic" beginning one Thanksgiving when his father-in-law gave him a 12-gauge Browning shotgun.

The Iraqi Governing Council signs an interim constitution Monday after weeks of negotiations. The constitution, meant to pave the way for establishing a sovereign Iraqi government, aspires to balance the nation's Shiite majority with protections for minority Sunnis and Kurds. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University.

The celebrated New Yorker writer Mavis Gallant published two collections of stories at the end of last year. She still lives alone in Paris and, in the words of Russell Banks, she still packs a lifetime into one short story. Frank Browning profiles her.

Irish writer Eoin Colfer has found great success enchanting readers with the fanciful adventures of Artemis Fowl. His new book The Wish List is about saving souls, cell-phone conversations between St. Peter and Beelzebub, and the online presence of both Heaven and Hell. Frank Browning profiles the writer.