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FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE: (Goes Norse)
aired 7/12/88 [1988-07-12]
FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE (GOES NORSE), PART 1 British radio personality Tom Vernon cycles 1500 miles from Norway to the Russian border in a four-part (and two-wheeled) Scandinavian tour. The portly peddler's first stop is Stavanger in southern Norway, where he yells with seaman Erik Bye about the country's bloody seafaring past. He asks: "What has made you peacemakers now?" Bye responds: "We're too few to cause any trouble. I mean four million Norwegians, what can we do? If we had been 140 million, you would have heard from us." In Stavanger Vernon also observes Constitution Day celebrations, including the preteen rousing of teachers by merry graduating high-school students. Next is a stop in Bergen, a commercial sea town, where Vernon trips with radio commentator Ivar Garberg about Norway's social problems; and meets Jan Oahn, a World War II Resistance leader who saved his own neck at his court-martial by speaking in a slang his Nazi prosecutors couldn't understand. From there, Vernon moves on to Oslo, where he views a child "wedding" and plays a 1912 violin crafted from mother-of-pearl and elephant bone; and Trondheim, where he samples a batch of homemade beer—a beverage the brewer claims is so strong that "you could drive your car on [it]." (60 min.)
- NORWAY TO SOVIET BORDER. aired 7/16/88 [1988-07-16]
- LAPLAND TO SWEDEN. aired 7/18/88 [1988-07-18]
- HIGH SUMMER. SWEDEN. aired 7/25/88 [1988-07-25]
- SUOMI, FINLAND. aired 8/1/88 [1988-08-01]
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TALKING HEADS: BED AMONG THE LENTILS
aired 2/12/89 [1989-02-12]
w/ Maggie Smith.
- BOOK OF DAYS: Alive from Off Center. The Middle Ages aired 8/30/89 [1989-08-30]
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FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE (Goes Norse)
aired 7/12/88 [1988-07-12]
series: FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE (GOES NORSE), PART 1
- NORWAY TO SOVIET BORDER 7/16/88
- LAPLAND TO SWEDEN 7/18/88
- HIGH SUMMER. SWEDEN 7/25/88
- SUOMI, FINLAND 8/1/88
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TALKING HEADS: BED AMONG THE LENTILS
aired 2/12/89 [1989-02-12]
w/ Maggie Smith
- BOOK OF DAYS: Alive from Off Center. The Middle Ages aired 8/30/89 [1989-08-30]
On page HISTORICAL 20260909_091400 · written “1266c”
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FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE (Goes Norse)
aired 7/12/88 [1988-07-12]
series: FAT MAN ON A BICYCLE (GOES NORSE), PART 1
- NORWAY TO SOVIET BORDER 7/16/88
- LAPLAND TO SWEDEN 7/18/88
- HIGH SUMMER. SWEDEN 7/25/88
- SUOMI, FINLAND 8/1/88
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TALKING HEADS: BED AMONG THE LENTILS
aired 2/12/89 [1989-02-12]
w/ Maggie Smith
- BOOK OF DAYS: Alive from Off Center. The Middle Ages aired 8/30/89 [1989-08-30]