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Overnight Delivery

Overnight Delivery

FromWireless Nights


Overnight Delivery

FromWireless Nights

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Apr 19, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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 for Extraordinary Originality and Innovation - a top European radio prize - the theme is Overnight Delivery. Jarvis boards the red-eye, taking a transatlantic flight of the imagination - peering down at the human dramas beneath as the world slowly rotates - accompanied by Jarvis' own musical selections.

As Jarvis reaches cruising altitude, he finds himself gripped by the compelling life and death stories of a shepherdess in the midst of a very difficult birth, a transplant nurse on late shift and a priest who performs the role of deliverance ministry - in layman's terms: exorcism.

But this dark night is not without light relief, as Jarvis muses on the trying experience of long haul air travel, revealing his own antidote to a fear of flying: Hugh Grant.

Producer: Laurence Grissell
Released:
Apr 19, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (30)

Jarvis Cocker explores the human condition after dark, with stories of night people