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Wireless Nights

Series 3

Episode 3: Lava and Ice

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on 6 Music

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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 the landscape, until he discovers sheep time. His sheep guides only lead him further into the unknown, through a hole in the lava floor and on a journey through a magma underworld, finding there a symphony orchestra, human seals and a wake.

Producer Neil McCarthy. Show less

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