All Aboard! The Canal Trip, BBC4 - TV review: An oddly absorbing way to soothe overactive minds

BBC4's All Aboard! The Canal Trip: unhurried, unobtrusive pace

Did you catch any of BBC4 Goes Slow? Would you have noticed if you did? The defining feature of this season, which continued with last night's All Aboard! The Canal Trip, is its unhurried, unobtrusive pace.

All Aboard took us on a four-mph trip down the picturesque Kennet and Avon canal, with no presenter, no voiceover narration, nor even any informative titles to interrupt the hours of meditation. In terms of exciting events, the most we could hope for was a bird tweeting, and that was exactly what made it so oddly absorbing. TV already has so many varied purposes, why shouldn't soothing overactive minds be one of them?