Wireless Nights
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...