Norwegian public television is
broadcasting a programme showing a crackling fireplace for 12 hours.
The NRK woodathon features firewood
specialists providing commentary and advice on subjects such as chopping,
stacking and burning the wood.
The head of programming at NRK,
Rune Moeklebust, described it as “slow but noble television”.
NRK is no stranger to such programming,
in 2011 it broadcast more than 130 hours of a cruise ship sailing up the
Norwegian coast to the arctic.
This without doubt the most
peculiar, yet downright hilarious synopsis of a TV show I’ve ever read.
The best bit about this has to be
that there are specialists who provide commentary, what do they say?
And there it is its lit, oh look
the smokes started, the smokes started I can see an ember and wow there we go
folks a full flame, just listen to the crackling sound, there are sparks flying
everywhere boy this in entertaining, I imagine that’s not how it goes but.............
I would like to hear the ‘expert’
advice on how to chop, stack and burn the wood.
To chop the wood get an axe find a
tree and hit it really hard, making sure that when you’ve chopped through the
tree it doesn’t fall on you.
To stack the wood place the chopped
up blocks on top of each other, but don’t be tempted to turn it into a giant
game of Jenga, because the stack
might topple over and land on someone.
To burn the wood put some in a pile
pour some paraffin over it, get a
match strike it and throw it in the general direction of the pile.
The head of programming at NRK
called it “slow but noble” TV, I think what he meant to say was we’ve ran out
of ideas so we just put this on for a laugh.
If I lived in Norway and I donated money
to this network and sat down to find out they’ve dedicated 12 hours of their
programming time to some burning wood, I’d be rather peed off mind you this
still sounds a darn sight better than a series Big Brother or I’m not a Celeb.
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