bucolic

I’ve heard of slow food but this is a first on me. In my collection of examples of rural conditioning and myth making its filed in the “slow burn” drawer. The article tells us:

A two-hour BBC show featuring nothing more than a journey down a canal has proved an unlikely hit with viewers.

All Aboard! The Canal Trip was filmed in real time and contained no commentary, music or presenter and nothing more exciting than passing boats, changing scenery and the occasional passer-by in the distance walking along the towpath.

But half a million viewers were mesmerised by the experiment in slow TV – filmed with a camera strapped to the front of the barge – down one of Britain’s historic waterways, the Kennet and Avon Canal.