As the holiday season retreats and the long slog of the winter months looms, you can fight the mood or embrace it. Here’s a playlist of cold-weather podcasts, some fiction, some nonfiction, all well-told and produced, and all set in the snow. For musical-theater nerds:Audio dramas — podcast-industry lingo for fictional podcasts — can sometimes get in trouble if a show is too well done. “Dark Winter Nights” began in 2014 with the goal of bringing Alaskan stories to whoever would listen. These live-event recordings are designed to transport you into “the stories we tell up here in Alaska, on dark winter nights,” according to the host and creator, Robert Prince, a professor of documentary filmmaking at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Source: New York Times January 03, 2021 03:33 UTC