Series Two.
The planning dispute, and the best pair of chapter titles in the run: Council-ing followed immediately by Counselling. It became the most-watched Prime Video original in the UK, reaching around 7.6 million viewers on a 28-day basis.
The eight chapters.
The year the council said no.
Series Two — The year the council said no.
In order.
Surviving
Series Two opens with a farm that made a hundred and forty-four pounds and a man deciding to do it again anyway.
Read the chapterCowering
Cattle arrive. The word does two things at once and neither of them is flattering.
Read the chapterSchmoozing
The commercial side of farming, which no farming programme had previously bothered to film.
Read the chapterBadgering
A chapter about a protected species and a great deal of trouble. Its beast is now the one that appears when this website breaks.
Read the chapterCouncil-ing
The planning dispute with West Oxfordshire District Council. The first half of the best pair of chapter titles in the run.
Read the chapterCounselling
The pay-off. Nothing else in forty chapters is as tightly constructed as this pair.
Read the chapterScheming
Agri-environment income, which now accounts for around thirty per cent of the average English farm business income and is the most reliable money on this farm.
Read the chapterClimaxing
The Series Two finale. The naming system at its most Clarkson.
Read the chapterThe grammar used in this series.
| Chapter | Title | Operation | The wordplay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Surviving | G1 | Straight, and after the first year, entirely earned. |
| 10 | Cowering | G2 | Cow, hidden inside cringing. One of the best latent puns in the corpus. |
| 11 | Schmoozing | G1 | Not agricultural at all, which is the point. |
| 12 | Badgering | G2 | Badger, hidden inside pestering. Also the correct animal for an error page. |
| 13 | Council-ing | G3/G4 | A hyphen exposes "council" and sets up the homophone that follows immediately. |
| 14 | Counselling | G4 | The homophone. Identical sound, opposite meaning, consecutive chapters. |
| 15 | Scheming | G2 | A scheme in the agri-environment sense, and a scheme in the plotting sense. |
| 16 | Climaxing | G6 | Register collision. Knowingly near the knuckle. |
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