All Aboard! The Country Bus - TONIGHT @ 8pm - 10pm

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I can't recall who else watched these with us (let me know and I will @them) but there is another up an coming episode in the slo-tv series.

Following the success of previous BBC Four slow TV programmes, including All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride and Slow week last May, the channel is inviting viewers aboard for a very special journey through one of the most spectacular and beautiful bus routes in Britain.

Following the success of previous BBC Four slow TV programmes, including All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride and Slow Week last May, the channel is inviting viewers aboard for a very special journey through one of the most spectacular and beautiful bus routes in Britain.

The ‘Northern Dalesman’, as the bus on the route is dubbed, will be fixed with special cameras as it travels on its journey, stretching from the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire in the east to Ingleton in the west, snaking across the iconic landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Filmed in real time, cameras will capture the road ahead, the passing scenery and the occasional chatter of the regular passengers.

The 40 mile route is incredibly varied, taking viewers through a blossoming river valley, past ancient meadows, agricultural pastures and ancient mining villages, over high open heathland, and a final stretch across the hilly Dales past the incredible 24-arch Ribbleshead viaduct, one of the great engineering achievements of the 19th Century.

The programme will feature captions integrated into the landscape to provide details about the dramatic countryside through which the bus is passing - from aspects of the geographical or geological environment, to specific highlights of Britain’s agricultural or industrial heritage, from the ancient stone hay barns that dot the landscape to the scars left behind by the lead mining of previous centuries.

Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor, BBC Four says: “I’m delighted that Slow television has struck such a chord with BBC Four viewers. This programme promises to be another very special treat; an opportunity to sit back and appreciate the sights and sounds of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales in a rich and absorbing antidote to the frenetic pace of modern life.”

All Aboard! The Country Bus was commissioned by Cassian Harrison, Channel Editor, BBC Four, and Clare Paterson, Commissioning Editor, Documentaries. It is being made by The Garden, who previously brought BBC Four viewers All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride and All Aboard! The Canal Trip. It will be Produced and Directed by Sam Wildman and Executive Produced by Lucy Bowden and Magnus Temple.

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Former Member

Yay! Looking forward to it... I'll make us some sandwiches EC

8/14/1612:34 PM

SaintMember 10 years

thumb loved the narrow boat

8/14/1612:36 PM

Former Member

Look forward to an influx of tourists in the Yorkie Dales after it

8/14/1612:37 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Roger the Alien posted:
Yay! Looking forward to it... I'll make us some sandwiches EC

Marmalade please.

8/14/1612:40 PM

Former Member

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Yay! Looking forward to it... I'll make us some sandwiches EC
Marmalade please.

laugh Okey dokes EC.

I'm having salmon paste on white pan.

8/14/1612:50 PM

Former Member

Saint posted:
loved the narrow boat

Yes that was lovely Funny just today I was thinking I'd love to see some countryside programmes. Not with peeps yakking over the the top of it, just country views.

8/14/1612:54 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
Saint posted:
loved the narrow boat
Yes that was lovely Funny just today I was thinking I'd love to see some countryside programmes. Not with peeps yakking over the the top of it, just country views.

I think Countryfile is the closest you'll get

8/14/1612:57 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Saint posted:
loved the narrow boat
Yes that was lovely Funny just today I was thinking I'd love to see some countryside programmes. Not with peeps yakking over the the top of it, just country views.
I think Countryfile is the closest you'll get

I enjoy a bit of Countryfile, but Gardeners World is quite relaxed and I think has a nice relaxed pace to it, especially when Monty Don is pottering in his garden.

8/14/161:01 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Roger the Alien posted:
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Yay! Looking forward to it... I'll make us some sandwiches EC
Marmalade please.
Okey dokes EC.
I'm having salmon paste on white pan.

With cucumber?

8/14/161:01 PM

Former Member

Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Saint posted:
loved the narrow boat
Yes that was lovely Funny just today I was thinking I'd love to see some countryside programmes. Not with peeps yakking over the the top of it, just country views.
I think Countryfile is the closest you'll get

That's sort of what I was referring to Sprout laugh too much yakking in it. Not enough views. I don't wanna know about the bliddy price of sheep

8/14/161:03 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
That's sort of what I was referring to Sprout too much yakking in it. Not enough views. I don't wanna know about the bliddy price of sheep

PMSL!! but the farmers do!

8/14/161:05 PM

Former Member

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Yay! Looking forward to it... I'll make us some sandwiches EC
Marmalade please.
Okey dokes EC.
I'm having salmon paste on white pan.
With cucumber?

Oh no no no. Proper coach trip sandwiches, just Shipman's paste thank you.

Maybe some hard boiled eggs on the side

8/14/161:09 PM

Former Member

Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
That's sort of what I was referring to Sprout too much yakking in it. Not enough views. I don't wanna know about the bliddy price of sheep
PMSL!! but the farmers do!

blush True Sprouty... maybe they could have a Farmers' channel glance Not on BBC1 primetime though.

8/14/161:13 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
Oh no no no. Proper coach trip sandwiches, just Shipman's paste thank you.
Maybe some hard boiled eggs on the side

I kinda like Westies

8/14/161:15 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
That's sort of what I was referring to Sprout too much yakking in it. Not enough views. I don't wanna know about the bliddy price of sheep
PMSL!! but the farmers do!
True Sprouty... maybe they could have a Farmers' channel Not on BBC1 primetime though.

They prolly have somewhere. I mean, they have a shipping forecast on the radio ninja

8/14/161:16 PM

Former Member

Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
That's sort of what I was referring to Sprout too much yakking in it. Not enough views. I don't wanna know about the bliddy price of sheep
PMSL!! but the farmers do!
True Sprouty... maybe they could have a Farmers' channel Not on BBC1 primetime though.
They prolly have somewhere. I mean, they have a shipping forecast on the radio

Oh maaaan it goes on for ages too sleepy

8/14/161:24 PM

Former Member

Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Oh no no no. Proper coach trip sandwiches, just Shipman's paste thank you.
Maybe some hard boiled eggs on the side
I kinda like Westies

Right... I'll have to remember that for our bus excursion to the Dales

8/14/161:27 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
Sprout posted:
They prolly have somewhere. I mean, they have a shipping forecast on the radio
Oh maaaan it goes on for ages too

nod

8/14/161:30 PM

Former Member

Roger the Alien posted:
Sprout posted:
Roger the Alien posted:
Oh no no no. Proper coach trip sandwiches, just Shipman's paste thank you.
Maybe some hard boiled eggs on the side
I kinda like Westies
Right... I'll have to remember that for our bus excursion to the Dales

thumb

8/14/161:31 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

I can't recall who else watched these with us (let me know and I will @them) but there is another up an coming episode in the slo-tv series.

I loved the one floating down the Kennet & Avon canal - sooooooo relaxing.

Hope the bus trip is as good - I suspect it will be. I'm going to tell Supes as it's in her neck of the woods laugh (Thanks for the notification, EC)

8/14/162:03 PM

Cold SweatMember 10 years

I thought all rural bus services had been axed under tory austerity cuts?

8/14/162:15 PM

Former Member

Cold Sweat posted:
I thought all rural bus services had been axed under tory austerity cuts?

Most of them will have been but this is for TV ninja

8/14/162:33 PM

Yogi19Member 10 years

I didn't see the other programmes but I like the sound of this one. Do you know when it is going to be shown, EC?

8/15/1612:54 AM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Yogi19 posted:
I didn't see the other programmes but I like the sound of this one. Do you know when it is going to be shown, EC?

I have tried to find out but can't find it in the schedules as yet Yogi. They have started the trailers on BBC FOUR so I don't think it will be too long.

8/15/162:16 AM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Cosmopolitan posted:
I can't recall who else watched these with us (let me know and I will @them) but there is another up an coming episode in the slo-tv series.

I loved the one floating down the Kennet & Avon canal - sooooooo relaxing.
Hope the bus trip is as good - I suspect it will be. I'm going to tell Supes as it's in her neck of the woods (Thanks for the notification, EC)

Yes, they are really good, relaxing films. I would love to get a series of them on HD blu-ray to have playing in the winter months. :-)

8/15/162:18 AM

Yogi19Member 10 years

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Yogi19 posted:
I didn't see the other programmes but I like the sound of this one. Do you know when it is going to be shown, EC?
I have tried to find out but can't find it in the schedules as yet Yogi. They have started the trailers on BBC FOUR so I don't think it will be too long.

thumb Something to look forward to.

8/15/168:30 AM

squiggleMember 10 years

I see from the ad today that it will aired on the Bank Holiday Weekend sometime, so that narrows it down.

8/15/1610:04 AM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Yay just spotted the thread clapping

8/29/1612:00 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

You would have thought they would have gone open top!

8/29/1612:02 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Not sure we need so much of the driver.

8/29/1612:04 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Evening EC wavey I missed a bit - are they going from Richmond to Ingleton or vice versa?

8/29/1612:18 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Also, is he going to drive all the way at 20mph..? disapp

Hi Velvet wavey

8/29/1612:19 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Cosmopolitan posted:
Evening EC I missed a bit - are they going from Richmond to Ingleton or vice versa?

Welcome aboard Cosi and Velvet thumb

Richmond to Ingleton East to West.

8/29/1612:22 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Cosmopolitan posted:
Also, is he going to drive all the way at 20mph..?

laugh But would that not be slightly quicker than a canal boat? Not sure myself.

8/29/1612:23 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

velvet donkey posted:
Hi Cosi

Not sure it's grabbing my attention tbh. Unless he rolls it on a bend.

Haha, I knew you'd be wanting a Cannonball Run, Velvet

East to West it is then, thanks EC x

8/29/1612:24 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

That cloud looks like an elephant!

8/29/1612:25 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Cosmopolitan posted:
Also, is he going to drive all the way at 20mph..?

But would that not be slightly quicker than a canal boat? Not sure myself.

Yes of course, but I was just thinking....something about the canal boat had an hypnotic quality and a more all round view. This bus keeps making me look sideways and I like to see where I'm going when travelling

8/29/1612:25 PM

Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesMember 10 years

Cosmopolitan posted:
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Cosmopolitan posted:
Also, is he going to drive all the way at 20mph..?

But would that not be slightly quicker than a canal boat? Not sure myself.
Yes of course, but I was just thinking....something about the canal boat had an hypnotic quality and a more all round view. This bus keeps making me look sideways and I like to see where I'm going when travelling

I know what you mean. The camera seems to pan left and right.

8/29/1612:27 PM

CosmopolitanMember 10 years

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

That cloud looks like an elephant!

That's a bit different than the chalky white horse from Wiltshire or the Long Man at Wilmington

8/29/1612:28 PM

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