A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.

Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.

Just a few years before he got the internship at NPR that started him in radio, our host Ira Glass had another career. He performed magic at children's birthday parties. A powerful sense of embarrassment has prevented him from ever doing an episode on the subject, but when he learned that producer David Kestenbaum was also a kid conjurer, they ...…

Dispatches from a government agency in its tumultuous teenage years.