Lambing Live.
A fortnight of nights in the lambing shed. One camera, very little talking, and a chat window that is the gentlest place on the internet at four in the morning.
Next: Lambing Live.
The lambing shed, with one camera and almost no commentary.
What actually happens.
One camera, one shed
No gallery, no cuts, no music. It runs until whoever is on lets it stop.
Nightly for a fortnight
From nine, until nothing is happening, which is usually somewhere after two.
The four-in-the-morning chat
Consistently the kindest room on this platform and nobody quite knows why.
Nothing hidden
Lambing includes losses. We do not cut away and we say so at the top of every night.
The details.
Lambing Live
- Nights
- 15Fourteenth to the twenty-eighth of March.
- From
- 9pmUntil it stops, which is not a scheduling failure.
- Peak concurrent
- 11,400At 00:40 on the fourth night last year.
- Commentary
- Almost noneSomebody explains what is happening and then stops talking.
- Content note
- Losses are not cut away fromStated at the top of every night, every year.
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.
How the day runs.
First night
The one where nothing happens for two hours.
Fourteen more
Same shed, same camera, same lack of music.
Overnight cut in the archive
Trimmed to the parts where something happened.
The shed, when nothing is on.
Outside the broadcast fortnight the shed cameras carry on regardless. They are not a broadcast; they are a shed with a camera in it.
Cameras are illustrative in this demonstration build. Nothing here streams.
The questions this one gets.
Sometimes. Lambing includes losses and we do not cut away from them. The warning goes out at the start of every night and the archive copy carries it too.
Until whoever is on shift decides nothing more is happening. The earliest finish last year was 11.40pm; the latest was 4.20am.
That is a decision for the adult in the room, which is why the content note is at the top rather than in a footer.
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One notification, capped, and nothing in the weeks when nothing is on.
