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 bat stories.He finds ecologist John Altringham crouched beside a cave in North Yorkshire awaiti

A New Year's Resolution

Jan 1st, 2019 27m 47s

Jarvis Cocker continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition. He often lies awake at night trying, unsuccessfully, to nod off. But, not one to give up, his New Year's resolution is to crack this habit and attain the perfect night's

Introducing... The Collection: Peel Acres

Jan 16th, 2023 9m 44s

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 Radio DJ John Peel, and his legendary record collection.Tom's guests lend a hand (and two ears

On The Edge

Dec 13th, 2021 27m 34s

Jarvis goes into hospital for a routine procedure, and the anaesthetic gives him some very strange nocturnal visions.As Dr Ed Patrick administers the anaesthetic, Jarvis is transported far, far away. One moment he's on a Scottish lighthouse at

Full Moon

Dec 10th, 2021 27m 50s

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 inhabitants, both man and beast, as they divulge what light of the full moon does to them. Jarvi

Lost in the Forest

Nov 29th, 2021 27m 36s

Jarvis Cocker gets lost in the forest at night and encounters a series of rather intriguing characters.As darkness falls on the forest, Jarvis realises he's hopelessly lost. Disorientated and desperately trying to find his way out, his nocturn

Lockdown

May 25th, 2020 28m 17s

From somewhere deep in lockdown, Jarvis trawls the Wireless Nights archive looking for relief from isolation.From the darkness of Lundy Island to a snowbound white out, from a man sending radio signals to the moon to a castaway in the North Sea

Destiny's Child

Dec 25th, 2018 27m 58s

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 the Christmas skies.On a cold and frosty Christmas night, a baby is set to enter the world in

Night Train

Dec 18th, 2018 26m 9s

Jarvis Cocker’s series exploring the human condition after dark boards the Wireless Nights Express to hear tales of night people on sleeper - or sleepless - trains. He begins on the Caledonian Sleeper, leaving the noise and crowds of London E

Dungeness

Dec 11th, 2018 27m 48s

Jarvis Cocker's series exploring the human condition after dark returns with a night wander around Dungeness. Sometimes referred to as Britain's only desert, it's a shingle headland in Kent jutting into the English Channel. Sparsely populated,

Berlin

Apr 3rd, 2017 27m 17s

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 city and hears stories of thenacht.Between East and West, he encounters a 1930s musical salon

Megahertz

Mar 27th, 2017 29m 30s

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 meets those who broadcast, monitor and harvest electronic radio transmissions after dark.Paddy Mc

Night Tube

Mar 20th, 2017 29m 14s

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 Tube driver Kylie at the controls, Jarvis is whisked along the Victoria line late into the night.

Joujouka

Mar 13th, 2017 29m 44s

Jarvis Cocker returns to Radio 4 with his nocturnal explorations of the human condition. In tonight's Wireless Night, Jarvis travels to a remote village in the Rif Mountains of Morocco to join the Master Musicians of Joujouka. Their ancient Suf

Snowbound

Jan 15th, 2016 28m 52s

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 to kill, Jarvis's mind drifts to other snowbound dramas and dilemmas as he tries to distract h

The Nightclub

Dec 15th, 2015 27m 57s

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 as clubbers play out their lives after dark.From a dimly lit ska joint to an after hours speake

Keep on Truckin'

Nov 30th, 2015 27m 32s

Jarvis Cocker continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.Tonight: an unlucky trucker, a hopeful hitch-hiker and a host of Scottish ghostbusters.As Jarvis climbs up into the Wireless Nights monster truck, he hears from a long dis

Underwater at the Proms

Nov 24th, 2015 27m 44s

Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition takes him beneath the waves in this special edition of Wireless Nights. Accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic at this year's Proms, as Jarvis drifts off to sleep he soon finds himself o

Bright Nights

Nov 3rd, 2014 27m 59s

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 best known poet and rock and roll legend, who warns of wandering demons as he embarks on an ove

Lava and Ice

Oct 27th, 2014 28m 16s

Jarvis Cocker wanders the lava fields of Iceland in search of the unseen forces of night. In the midnight shadow of Snaefellsjokull, the volcano featured in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jarvis considers the timelessness of

Reaching for the Moon

Oct 20th, 2014 27m 54s

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 International Space Station.En route he hears stories of those touched by the moon in its many m

BBC Philharmonic Presents...

Oct 13th, 2014 28m 2s

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 winning series Wireless Nights to Salford, forming part of this year's BBC Philharmonic Presents...

The Darkest Hour

May 30th, 2013 27m 45s

Jarvis Cocker stars in his own horror movie as he continues his nocturnal examination of the human condition, exploring the battle between the forces of darkness and light.He hears from horror movie goers at the Electric Cinema in Birmingham, k

Nights of Passage

May 23rd, 2013 28m 1s

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 ferry as he contemplates night crossings mythic and modern.As he moves across dark waters, he he

Nightwatch

May 16th, 2013 27m 38s

Jarvis Cocker becomes a nightwatchman in a high rise office block as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.Decked out in regulation uniform and armed with a powerful torch, Jarvis starts his rounds protecting London's 36