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Wireless Nights

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Activity Overview

Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

Introducing... The Collection: Peel Acres

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Ravenscroft returns with a second series of Peel Acres. Each week, he welcomes a different music lover to the home of his late father, former BBC ...

On The Edge

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis goes into hospital for a routine procedure, and the anaesthetic gives him some very strange nocturnal visions.As Dr Ed Patrick administers the ...

Full Moon

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of Wireless Nights, Jarvis Cocker discovers what happens here on earth on the night of the full moon. He'll be meeting the planet's in...

Lost in the Forest

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker gets lost in the forest at night and encounters a series of rather intriguing characters.As darkness falls on the forest, Jarvis realise...

Bat Night

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker is back with a new series of Wireless NightsTonight, armed with a bat detector Jarvis sets off through a wetland in search of bats and b...

Lockdown

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From somewhere deep in lockdown, Jarvis trawls the Wireless Nights archive looking for relief from isolation.From the darkness of Lundy Island to a sn...

A New Year's Resolution

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition. He often lies awake at night trying, unsuccessfully, to nod off. But, not on...

Destiny's Child

25 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker hosts a special festive edition, telling stories of a shepherdess and a miracle birth, whilst a wise man looks out for bright lights in ...

Night Train

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker’s series exploring the human condition after dark boards the Wireless Nights Express to hear tales of night people on sleeper - or sle...

Dungeness

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker's series exploring the human condition after dark returns with a night wander around Dungeness. Sometimes referred to as Britain's only ...

Berlin

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition leads him to Berlin. Walking in the shadowlands of the Wall he reflects on a once divided...

Megahertz

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker navigates the ether as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition. On a night voyage across a sea of shortwave he mee...

Night Tube

20 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker rides in the driver's cab of a late night Tube train, hearing tales of nocturnal travellers across London.With Beyoncé-loving Night Tub...

Joujouka

13 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker returns to Radio 4 with his nocturnal explorations of the human condition. In tonight's Wireless Night, Jarvis travels to a remote villa...

Snowbound

15 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker is snowed in for tonight's nocturnal exploration of the human condition. With the snow piling high outside his farmhouse and long hours ...

The Nightclub

15 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker invites you to a night out in Soho on his nocturnal exploration of the human condition. Below street level he finds drama and delirium a...

Keep on Truckin'

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.Tonight: an unlucky trucker, a hopeful hitch-hiker and a host of Scottish gho...

Underwater at the Proms

24 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition takes him beneath the waves in this special edition of Wireless Nights. Accompanied by th...

Bright Nights

03 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of his nocturnal Icelandic adventure, Jarvis goes on a journey through the long, light summer night. He meets Megas, the island's b...

Lava and Ice

27 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker wanders the lava fields of Iceland in search of the unseen forces of night. In the midnight shadow of Snaefellsjokull, the volcano featu...

Reaching for the Moon

20 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker attempts to fly to the moon, with the aid of astronaut Chris Hadfield - famous for his rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity on the In...

BBC Philharmonic Presents...

13 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

To mark the winter solstice, a chance to hear a programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1st October in which Jarvis Cocker brought his award winni...

The Darkest Hour

30 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker stars in his own horror movie as he continues his nocturnal examination of the human condition, exploring the battle between the forces ...

Nights of Passage

23 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight, Jarvis Cocker's award-winning nocturnal exploration of the human condition takes to the sea. Join him on the midnight sailing of a Channel fe...

Nightwatch

16 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker becomes a nightwatchman in a high rise office block as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.Decked out in regul...

Night of the Hunter

09 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker returns to Radio 4 with his award-winning feature series exploring the human condition after dark. Tonight is the 'Night of the Hunter' ...

Night Manoeuvres

26 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker continues his prowl through the dark in the last of his new series Wireless Nights. This evening he invites you on a curb crawl around t...

Behind Closed Doors

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker takes to the streets to peer through stained windows, cold steel bars and Japanese paper screens, to find out just what goes on Behind C...

They only come out at night

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing his new series of nocturnal meditations, Jarvis Cocker prowls the nation's night. This evening's theme is 'they only come out at night'. Ja...

Overnight Delivery

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jarvis Cocker prowls the dark, finding stories of the night people in a Prix Italia winning series.Tonight, in an edition which won the Prix Italia fo...