Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.
This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them. Written and narrated by Amanda Hess Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage. Inexplicably, Yoko Ono is there. When Paul McCartney starts to play “I’ve Got a Feeling,” Ono is there, stitching a furry object in her lap. When the band starts into “Don’t Let Me Down,” Ono is there, reading a newspaper. When George Harrison walks off, briefly quitting the band, there is Ono, wailing inchoately into his microphone. “I was seeing intimate, long-lost footage of the world’s most famous band preparing for its final performance,” Amanda Hess writes, “and I couldn’t stop watching Yoko Ono sitting around, doing nothing.” Written by Dan Barry and Abby Ellin| Narrated by Dan Barry He cradled his infant grandchild for the first and final time. He picked at some food. He posed for family photographs that captured smiles as strained as the conversation. Then someone in charge said it was time. The center of attention, Nathaniel Woods, assured his heavy-hearted father that everything would be all right. It was late afternoon on March 5, 2020, the overcast day chosen by the State of Alabama to be Mr. Woods’s last. He had been convicted 15 years earlier in connection with the shooting deaths of three Birmingham police officers — and ever since had been rechristened Cop Killer Nathaniel Woods.
