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The flagship · Thursday 3 September 2026

Harvest Live.

Ninety minutes from the grain store in the middle of harvest, which means it starts late roughly one year in two and nobody apologises for it.

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Next: Harvest Live.

From the grain store, with a combine still going in the field behind.

--Days --Hours --Minutes --Seconds Thursday 3 September 2026, 7pm
The format

What actually happens.

The weighbridge, live

Loads come in and the running total goes up on screen. It is the whole show.

The yield, as it lands

Tonnes per hectare per field, called out as the trailers arrive.

Questions from parishes

Read out in the order they arrive, not in the order that flatters anybody.

The weather argument

Twenty minutes of forecast disagreement, which is the most popular segment.

The specification

The details.

Harvest Live

Length
90 minutesRuns over about half the time.
Starts late
Roughly one year in twoBecause harvest does not stop for a broadcast.
Watch-along places
2,000Distributed to parishes, not sold.
Cost
NothingAt every tier, including the free one.
Captions
Live, and corrected within 24 hoursAudio description added to the archive copy.

Access

Live captions
YesMachine-generated live, human-corrected within 24 hours.
Audio description
On the archive copyAdded before publication, every time.
Audio-only stream
64 kbpsFor a tractor cab or a bad line.
Transcript
Published with the archiveSearchable.

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.

The order of it

How the day runs.

3 September, 6.40pm

Doors, in the loosest sense

The stream opens twenty minutes early with a camera on the yard and nothing else happening.

7pm

Live from the grain store

Ninety minutes, assuming the combine cooperates.

4 September

In the archive

Captioned, audio-described, permanent.

Counted

Last year’s broadcast, counted.

38,904 watched live Peak concurrent 9,210
112 min actual length Advertised at 90
41 min late The combine had a blockage
2,000 parish watch-along places Distributed, not sold
Wondering

The questions this one gets.

It moves. The date on this page is the intention and the notification goes out the moment it changes, which has happened twice in three years.

No. Broadcasting is open to everybody, and the watch-along places are free at every tier including Loitering.

Within twenty-four hours, in the archive, captioned and audio-described. It stays there permanently.

Told an hour before.

One notification, capped, and nothing in the weeks when nothing is on.

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