My Interview on BBC Breakfast about Norwegian Slow TV
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2021
- We all have a few minutes of fame; this constitutes some of mine - being interviewed about Slow TV on the UK BBC morning flagship breakfast show.
Slow TV grabbed the attention of BBC Breakfast on Sunday 17th April 2016; I had the opportunity to go in to talk about Slow TV, with some later input from NRK Producer, Thomas Hellum, who was Project Leader for the 12 hour tidal Slow TV at Saltstraumen on 7th May, and continues as a principal producer and project leader for a lot of NRK Slow TV.
I didn't answer one of Naga's question properly, so I've recorded a little addendum to answer that more fully at 08:33.
We all need to slow down and appreciate our lives in more detailed form!
I'm Norwegian, and by chance I got the flu at the same time as the NRK Hurtigruten broadcast. The first couple of days I was too sick to do anything else, so I was stuck in front of the TV. Since then I couldn't stop watching. Fortunately, I wasn't well enough to go to work, so I was able to enjoy the trip almost the whole way. It was amazing!
I was quickly caught up in the discussions on Facebook, and a group of viewers decided to meet and make the cruise themselves the following year. We met to get to know each other a little. I ended up not going, but many of the others actually did take the trip the following year.
Later, I watched several of the slow TV broadcasts, as much as I could. The trip around Svalbard was, if possible, better than the Hurtigruten, but my biggest favorite is the broadcast where NRK followed a herd of reindeer from winter pasture to summer pasture in Finnmark.
Thanks for commenting. Yes, slow tv does do some interesting things. That group taking the cruise sounds really lovely - something I might do one day if there’s enough spare money!
I watched the reindeer herding journey too; an amazing spectacle, and some unforgettable moments. Also enjoyed hearing the Sami music and joik singing. The ending was a very atypical narrative - cut short by an incoming blizzard.
I hope NRK does another great Slow TV apart from the summer activities, have missed the big tv event.
@@TimPrevett I actually grew up on the island the herd was transported to by ship (some years they swim over). Every spring we waited for them to arrive. I guess that's why I enjoyed that particular show the most. It was "our" herd - or at least the descendants of the herd I grew up around.
Swedish TV has done our own slow TV version the last Springs, Moose wandering. They put up some cameras out in nature along a route several mooses uses to wander, and swim, to wherever those mooses want to spend their Summer.
Obviously other wildlife might turn up, the first year it was a big hit when a reindeer wandering by spotted one of the cameras stuck a bit up in a tree, and tried to get a better look at the camera.
But a lot of the time it's just trees, or water, without any animals. Perhaps a piece of ice suddenly comes floating by one of the water view cameras, and we can follow the piece of ice as it slowly floats from one side of the TV to the other, and disappears out of view. Maybe a bird suddenly lands, or comes out of the water...
And then there's all the guessing, is there something moving behind that tree? Is that a bush, or a moose's behind over there? Not to mention guessing on how many mooses that will swim over the last piece of water from some islands, back to the mainland, before they take down the cameras again.
It's very relaxing, I love it.
Yes, I’ve been greatly enjoying den störa älkvandringen these last couple years, and look forward to it again!
We already have slow TV in the UK, it's called BBC Breakfast - the same news stories repeated endlessly for about three hours.
Hahaha
Thanks for taking the time to put these clips together, and to offer more insight after the fact. Inspiring
I used to watch stuff like this on old sky satellite. Great idea, love it!
For reference to a student of visual arts.. Koyaanisqatsi.. .. it's relevant. And recently I suppose the queen's journey.. the UK has done it too now. We simply have a state channel that could do it earlier here..
Yes, Koyaanisqatsi, its sequels, and related films of Baraka, Samasara and Chronos informed my research. I recorded a lot of the viewing in state of the Queen - very much a slow TV transmission, and similarly the funeral and procession.
You can also watch hours of chess every day between xmas and new years eve.
Even if the interview is older , the most amazing 'Slow TV' N RK (Norwegian. Chanel )has made so far, was '100 years treaty celebration of Spitzbergen/Svalbard'. It was 9,5 days and I mist 2of them due to sleeping😃🤩
Why do people call Hurtigruten a ferry? It's an Arctic cruise ship, that happens to also double as a local people mover.
I think originally it was just a ferry before travel became a leisure option, and for those who use it as a ferry… perhaps also not everyone knows it’s a cruise line too?
And it avoids most of the fjords.