Series Five.
Released in three tranches — four episodes on 3 June, two on the 10th, two on the 17th. It contains the coronary heart disease disclosure and the prostate cancer diagnosis, and the chapter titles carry both without breaking their own rules. Operating and Sickening are the system working at full stretch.
The eight chapters.
The year it got serious.
Series Five — The year it got serious.
In order.
Operating
Series Five opens with the coronary heart disease disclosure. The naming system, which had spent four series being funny, turns out to work just as well when it is not.
Read the chapterDecapitating
The most violent word in the corpus, and used exactly once.
Read the chapterFrazzling
The drought year, and the word for what it does to people as well as crops.
Read the chapterSickening
The prostate cancer disclosure. He used it to campaign for PSA screening, which is the most useful thing any of this has ever done.
Read the chapterReaping
The most recent chapter. Everything currently in the farm shop came out of the year it covers. The estate continues at Chapter 41.
Read the chapterThe grammar used in this series.
| Chapter | Title | Operation | The wordplay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | Operating | G2 | Running a business, and a surgical operation. The heaviest double meaning in the corpus. |
| 34 | Storming | G2 | Weather, and temper. |
| 35 | Tripping | G6 | A trip, and falling over. |
| 36 | Updating | G1 | Straight, and modern — the least agricultural word in forty chapters. |
| 37 | Decapitating | G1 | Blunt, alarming, and entirely literal about something. |
| 38 | Frazzling | G6 | Heat, exhaustion, and being frazzled. |
| 39 | Sickening | G2 | Illness, and the colloquial sense of something being awful. |
| 40 | Reaping | G2 | Harvest, and what you reap. The last word of forty. |
The next series.
Or back to the full archive of forty.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. This is an unofficial demonstration build. The programme itself lives on Prime Video and the rights sit with Amazon and the production companies.
Chapter forty-one is this platform. The ledger carries on from there, and every number granted is logged permanently in Recording.
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