All aboard!

[Puzzled]

...was the title for a very unique two hours of TV last night. A BBC4 programme that had no verbal commentary at all and was just a camera on the front of a barge recording a cruise along the Kennett & Avon Canal. All you heard was birdsong, the odd dog / cyclist / passing boat and the lapping of the water as the barge made it's way through the beautiful surroundings.

 

Very different, but somehow compelling after a while! Various bits of information about the canal were sporadically superimposed as you passed by, bit of history and even references to angling.

 

I found it fascinating, I think mainly because it was TV without anyone talking over everything. Anyone else see it?

[chesters1]

I watched ones with a glass blower and a blacksmith ,very entertaining with a hint of the potters wheel interlude on tv our older AN ers may remember ,the vase was ok but nothing special but the knife a masterpiece but at 16 hours labour far beyond its worth as a knife

 

It makes a change from programs that think your all half whits so show everything their talking about or stick in poxy reinactments as if we cant visualise what their on about

Edited May 6, 2015 by chesters1

[Ken L]

This one?