Broadcasting.
Live events from the farm, and Wittering, which is the podcast. Seven things on the calendar, eight episodes in the feed, and a fortnight in March when a camera points at a lambing shed all night and nobody says very much.
Harvest Live, from the grain store.
Ninety minutes with a combine still going in the field behind. Two thousand watch-along places are distributed to parishes rather than sold, and they go steadily rather than in a rush.
The next fortnight.
Everything here is free to watch. The only thing on this page that costs anything is the tasting pack, and it is the only thing that sells out.
Thursday3 September
Saturday12 September
Thursday24 September
Thursday8 October
Pick a time and we will hold it for ten minutes. Add to your diary
Times are British. A harvest broadcast starts late roughly one year in two, and we would rather say that here than apologise for it on the night.
The seven live things.
Harvest Live
Ninety minutes from the grain store in the middle of harvest, which means it starts late roughly one year in…
Lambing Live
A fortnight of nights in the lambing shed. One camera, very little talking, and a chat window that is the…
The Drop
Twenty minutes, once a month, in which the things that sell out do it live and everybody watches the counter…
Ask Kaleb Live
An hour of questions, answered in the order they arrived rather than the order that makes anybody look good. About…
The Tasting
A guided tasting you drink along with. You need the pack in front of you, which is the only session…
Cereals
Two days broadcasting from somebody else’s field, at the arable event that most of the industry actually goes to. It…
The Quiz
Forty-five minutes of agricultural questions, played parish against parish, in twelve village halls at the same time. It is the…
Why any of this is live at all.
Live is expensive, unreliable and impossible to edit. A recorded piece is better in almost every measurable way: better lit, better paced, shorter, and it never has a combine break down in the middle of it.
What live has is that it cannot lie. A weighbridge total going up on screen while trailers arrive is not a claim about a harvest, it is the harvest. Nobody in the gallery can decide afterwards that a different number would have been more encouraging.
That is the entire editorial argument, and it is why the two most-watched things on this calendar are ninety minutes of a grain store and a fortnight of a shed at three in the morning.
- 11,400
- peak concurrent, lambing
- 0
- edits made live
- 24h
- to the archive
Wittering — the podcast.
Lagering Takes Six Weeks
Why the beer costs what it costs, told by somebody who has thrown a batch away and would like to…
We Completely Cocked Up
The cider recall, the statement that said exactly that, and why the shortest crisis statement in the file was also…
There Is No Telephone
Why a business with three million followers has no telephone number, and what happens to the people who wanted one.
The Lemon Problem
A pub where every ingredient is British, and the hour-long argument about a gin and tonic that has no lemon…
What the Drought Cost
A dry year, priced. What it took off the yield, what it added to the input bill, and what it…
Being Wrong in Public
The longest episode so far, and the one about making expensive mistakes in front of several million people.
The technical specification.
Broadcast
- Video
- 1080p, adaptive down to 360pRural broadband is the design constraint, not a footnote.
- Audio-only stream
- Yes, 64 kbpsFor anybody watching from a tractor cab.
- Latency
- 8–14 secondsWhich matters for a chat window and for nothing else.
- Concurrent capacity
- 40,000Peak used to date: 11,400.
- If it falls over
- Breaking DownA named state with a real explanation, not a spinner.
Access
- Captions, live
- On every broadcastMachine-generated live, human-corrected within 24 hours.
- Audio description
- On every archive copyAdded before the recording is published.
- Transcript
- Published with the archive copySearchable, and the source for the written write-ups.
- Cost
- NothingAt every tier, including Loitering, which is free.
Afterwards
- In the archive within
- 24 hoursExcept Cereals, which is cut down and takes a fortnight.
- Kept for
- PermanentlyAddressable at a stable URL. Nothing is rotated out.
- Downloadable
- Audio, yesVideo stays on the site.
Every broadcast and every episode described here is illustrative. This is an unofficial demonstration build: no recording exists, nothing streams, and no guest named on this site has agreed to anything.
What people actually ask.
No. Every broadcast is free at every tier, including the free one. The tasting pack is the only thing on the calendar that costs money and you can watch that session without it.
Nothing here is scheduled against a Prime Video release. When a series is in its broadcast window the whole site shifts into Second Screen, which is its own page and its own explanation.
Yes, live and machine-generated, then human-corrected within twenty-four hours. Audio description is added to every archive copy before it is published. That is a commitment rather than a feature.
Once per event, an hour before, if you asked. That is what Nagging is, and the name is the promise.
One message, an hour before.
Nagging is frequency-capped at one notification per broadcast and nothing else. No digest, no reminder about a reminder, and nothing at all in the weeks when nothing is on.
- One message per broadcast
- An hour before, never at the moment it starts
- Nothing in quiet weeks
- One tap to stop
