1965: MAGNUS MAGNUSSON's Tour of NORWAY | Tonight | BBC Archive

Tonight's Iceland-born reporter Magnus Magnusson embarks on a tour of Norway.

He begins his trip on one of the coastal passenger ships that keep the isloated coastal communities north of Bergen in touch with the rest of the country, then he travels to the city of Trondheim, on the mouth of the River Nidelva. In Trondheim, Magnus reports on the extraordinary history of Nidaros Cathedral, and meets some of the people who continue to build, rennovate and maintain it. From Trondheim, he travels to Bodo, the Southernmost Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle. He talks to locals about the Midnight sun and asks what life is like during the five short weeks of continuos sunshine, and how they cope during the long dark winters.

Until recently, Lofoten was the site of some of the richest catches of cod in the world, and saw fishing boats decend on it in their droves during the spring. Now, the catches have dramatically shrunk, and the fisihing industry in the area is in what appears to be terminal decline. Magnus investigates the reasons for the declining numbers of cod, and asks Stena Olssen of the Cod Research Institute what, if anything, can be done about it.

From the archipelago of Lofoten, Magnus travels to the "capital of North Norway" - Tromso, where the most northerly pub in the world - and the only pub in Scandinavia - was founded after the war, to offer a controlled drinking environment, rather than outright prohibition. From the most Northerly pub in the world, Magnus heads to Hammerfest, the world's northernmost town, to examine how the community there is not only surviving, but thriving due to government investment in industry in the area.

In 1893, the explorer Fridtjof Nansen began an expedition aboard the Fram, with 12 other men, to follow the ice flow to the North Pole. Magnus reports from Vardo, Norway's easternmost town, where the famous expedition began. He visits the Fram museum, to discover the extraordinary tale of Nansen's expedition and see the mighty little boat itself.

Finally, Magnus travels to Kirkenes, effectively the "Land's End" of Norway, to report from the border with the Soviet Union.

Clips taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC One, between 4 and 20 May, 1965.

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