Oil is starting to wash up along Louisiana's coast. Gov. Bobby Jindal says it's the heavy oil that everyone has been fearing. The wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi are home to rare birds, mammals and wide variety of marine life.  We speak with Wall Street Journal environment editor Jeffrey Ball.

Senate Democrats will try again today to move on a sweeping financial regulation bill. And German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is facing a run on the Euro, has begun nudging leading economies to coordinate financial regulation. But the question on both sides of the Atlantic is: do these proposals address the fundamental problems? With us are Richard Parker, professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an advisor to the Greek government, and Binyamin Appelbaum, financial reporter for the New York Times.

Pakistan is trying to block access to Facebook and YouTube, amid anger over a Facebook page that encourages users to draw caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. The Facebook page was inspired by protests against the animated television series, South Park, which angered some Muslims by depicted Muhammad in a bear suit earlier this year. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports.

Audio books is a booming business, raking in over a billion dollars a year.  The Audio Publishers Association says one in four Americans listened to an audio book in 2008. The books range in style from autobiographies, suspense novels and children's books to educational texts, but they all need a narrator. We'll speak to freelance audio book narrator (and a freelancer here at our home station, WBUR), Walter Dixon, about what it takes to get into the business, as well as the tricks of the trade, such as how to prepare for a novel versus a historical text, and the art of doing multiple voices.

• Radiohead, "Where I End and You Begin"
• Freddie Hubbard, "Little Sunflower"
• Paul Simon, "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
• Dntel, "Last Songs"
• Kar Kar Madison, "Boubacar Traore"
• Christian McBride, "Theme for Kareem"
• John Williams, "Harry Potter Theme" performed by Kidzone