They debuted with the story of a train traveling from one side of the country to the other over the course of seven hours. Editor's note: This episode included extensive research and original interviews on the subject of narrativity, including an interview with Dan Irving, Ph.D., of the U.S. He wrote an academic paper, published in the Frontiers of Narrative Studies, on slow TV as narrative and the "gradient" of narrative that informed the reporting for this episode.