Mid-April marks the start of the annual “Great Moose Migration,” a beloved televised event in Sweden that offers audiences a nonstop livestream of the four-legged creatures on their three-week journey. There’s no narrator, no background music, just moose and the sounds of nature. This “slow TV” programming is the kind of mediative experience that has taken off in Scandinavia, as Johan Erhag explained last year to The World’s Host Marco Werman. Erhag is the program’s project manager and joined the show from the city of Umeå in northern Sweden.
This story originally aired on April 17, 2025.
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