Norway’s Reality TV: A Fire Burning for Hours

By ⋅ February 20, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment
(Photo: NRK)

(Photo: NRK)

Nearly a million Norwegians tuned in to a TV show devoted to a fire.

The live program featured people stacking wood, sitting around a fire and then the fire burning for hours.

The man behind this slow burning hit is Rune Moeklebust.

He’s with Norway’s state broadcaster, NRK.

He tells anchor Aaron Schachter why Norwegians are so obsessed with wood.

Discussion

4 comments for “Norway’s Reality TV: A Fire Burning for Hours”

  • Lesley Saunders

    There is a TV station in Ontario Canada that has this fire burning in a fireplace. My mom lives in a house without a fireplace for the first time…so in the winter months when she’s in the living room she turns it on, you don’t have the heat but you still get the ambiance which ads its own warmth. It Works!!

  • http://twitter.com/adkerratic adkerratic

    Bark up, of course! The bark repels moisture, and allows the wood to dry underneath. Have you never stacked wood for the winter??!
     

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XW7J7LNWB6M5IIHK3UF3OLQ5AQ M Christine

    adkerratic is correct.  The bark side up.  Otherwise, when it is stacked outside, the rains and snow will penetrate it.  Also burn it with the bark side up — the rough edges of the down side will catch fire more easily.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eleanor.cass Eleanor K Cass

    Enjoyed the story!  We heat with wood (in America) and you have no idea, until you’ve done it, the passion it engenders.  Mild-mannered people turn fierce over how the fire is laid and maintained!  For all that, I love it.  When I go into a house that’s central heated, it feels like a house without a soul.