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Podcast & Video Studio · Hampshire & West Sussex

Record your podcast or video in a 16th-century barn.

One properly treated studio, four ways to set it up, and a 16th-century barn around it. Audio, video, and room to think. Twenty minutes from Portsmouth, seventy from London by train. Serving Hampshire, West Sussex and the South Coast, and publishing shows recorded anywhere in the country.

  • One studio, four setups
  • 4K multi-camera
  • Engineer on every session
  • Publishing for shows anywhere

The studio

Pick your setup. We'll do the rest.

One room, four and a half metres square, reset to suit the session. Interview, panel, solo or full video. Book it for an hour, or take the day.

The studio set for an interview: two chairs facing each other across the table, two microphones on boom arms

Two across the table

The Interview Setup

Our flagship. Two cameras plus wide. Built for the marquee guest.

The studio set for a panel: four microphones around the table

Four-mic table

The Panel Setup

Round-table layout, four mic positions, easy sightlines.

The studio set for a solo session: one chair, one microphone, one host

One desk, one host

The Solo Setup

Tight, controlled, perfect for a single host or a video-first show.

The studio set for video: green screen, teleprompter and lights

Green screen + video

The Production Setup

Green screen, teleprompter and the full video kit when the session calls for it.

Studio gear & perks

Everything you need to make something good, already in the room.

New to the studio?

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Two ways to book

Book the room, or book the day.

Most people know which one they are after within about ten seconds.

Book the room

You have an editor and you need a studio.

You know what you are making and someone is already lined up to cut it. Take the studio by the hour with an engineer on the desk, from £108 an hour plus VAT. If you would rather we cut it too, a produced Classic episode is £395 plus VAT. The planning call is included either way.

Book the day

You have a topic and a deadline.

You would rather turn up and hand the rest over. Content in a Day is £1,395 plus VAT: one recorded episode, ten retouched headshots, six captioned social cuts, rough cuts to watch before you leave, and the finished work back inside a working week.

You do not have to decide before you enquire. Tell us what you are making and we will say which one fits.

Session pricing

One-off or ongoing. We've got options.

Get 15% off your first booking with the code FIRST, up to £100 off.

Solo

From £108/hour +VAT

A solo host or one-on-one interview. Two cameras, professional audio, an engineer in the room.

  • Two-camera video
  • Shure SM7B audio
  • Pre-shoot planning call
  • Engineer on-site
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Most chosen

Classic

£395/episode +VAT

Our most-booked package, and a produced episode rather than a room by the clock. Up to ninety minutes recording, then we do the edit and the cuts.

  • Up to 90 minutes in the studio
  • Three-camera video
  • Audio + video edit
  • Thirty short-form cuts
  • Engineer + producer on-site
  • Files within five working days
Book this package

Prices from. A full quote with kit, edit and any extras you need lands with you within a working day of your enquiry. Bulk-booking and retainer rates are available for regular shows.

New · Productised day

Content in a Day. £1,395 plus VAT.

One day at the barn. You walk out with a fully edited video podcast episode, ten professional headshots, six short-form social cuts and a strategy call to shape the questions. Properly produced, all bundled together.

Built for founders, marketing leads, coaches and agencies in Hampshire and West Sussex who need a month of content out of one diary entry.

All-in day

Content in a Day

£1,395 +VAT

  • 60-min strategy call & question list
  • One edited episode, 4-camera 4K
  • Ten retouched headshots
  • Six captioned short-form cuts

New · Productised launch

Never launched a podcast? The Launch takes it off your desk.

A first-time podcast launch has 26 items on the checklist. Yours has three: turn up at the barn, bring a topic, and say yes when we ask if the edit is good. £2,495 plus VAT gets you from "we should have a podcast" to Episode 1 live in one working month. Strategy, brand pack, hosting setup, distribution, recording day, edit, clips, first-month schedule.

Built for coaches, consultants, founders and marketing leads who have been meaning to launch and haven't. Feeds cleanly into The Series once the show has a rhythm.

The Launch

£2,495 +VAT

Plus VAT · One working month · Episode 1 live at the end

  • Strategy + full brand pack
  • Hosting + Apple/Spotify/YouTube setup
  • Trailer + first two episodes recorded
  • Six clips + first-month schedule

New · Ongoing production

The Series. A podcast on a schedule.

Content in a Day, on a rhythm you can rely on. One recording day every month or every quarter, weekly short-form clip drops between sessions, and a strategy call at each tier. Same barn, same producer, same standard, and twelve months of finished episodes and clips landing on time.

Built for coaches, consultants, B2B founders and marketing leads who need a rhythm, not another one-off. Monthly, quarterly, or tailored to the show.

The Series

From £1,195/month +VAT

Monthly, quarterly, or tailored to the show.

All producer-led. Weekly clip drops. Thirty days notice. Cheaper per episode than booking days one at a time, and you can move between tiers at no penalty.

For charities & non-profits

A story that matters, told by people who mean it.

Fundraising teams get the hardest version of this job: a story that matters, a budget that does not, and people who never asked to be on camera. The barn helps most with the third one. It is quiet, it is private, and it does not feel like a studio, which is usually the difference between a guarded interview and an honest one.

One produced day gives a campaign an edited episode, the short-form cuts that carry it across the month, and ten retouched headshots for trustees or the senior team, from a single visit. £1,395 plus VAT. For a supporter series or a sector show that has to keep appearing, The Series runs the same day on a rhythm, from £1,195 a month plus VAT. Thirty days notice, and you own everything.

Charity shows are already part of what gets recorded in this room. Honest Talk with Lottie, made with Reach Charity, was recorded here. You can watch an episode further down the page.

Suits you if

  • You have an appeal or a campaign and the story needs telling properly
  • The people you want on camera are beneficiaries or volunteers, not presenters
  • Trustees and the senior team need headshots that look like one organisation
  • You need a year of content out of a small number of days

New · Works on any show, anywhere

We publish the show for you. You read one document and say yes.

Show notes, fact check, vertical clips, artwork cards and a full week of social, all built from the transcript days before release, then scheduled and verified on the day. Your involvement is two sentences per episode. Everything that could embarrass you goes in front of a person first.

From £195 an episode if you already record with us, or standalone on a show recorded anywhere.

One episode produced

  • Vertical clips13
  • Artwork cards6
  • Documents5
  • Posts scheduled43

From one fifty-minute recording, across five channels. Figures from the run report for Experience episode six.

For coaches & consultants

The thought-leadership podcast that actually happens.

Most coaching and consulting podcasts stall after episode three. The camera is too much fuss, the guests do not lock in, editing eats a weekend. The Series is built to fix that: one day in the barn every month or every quarter, guests booked, questions written, edit and clips landing on time. Twelve months of content you can plan a marketing year around.

Direct to a producer near Chichester, not a remote agency and not a booth-by-the-hour. Twenty years of studio behind every session. Fully white-labellable if you already work with an agency.

Suits you if

  • Your expertise is the product, and you need it on camera monthly
  • You have a full-diary week and one recording day is the most you can spare
  • You want LinkedIn video, not just audio, and you want it edited properly
  • You'd rather see the producer than log into somebody else's platform

How we work

Three ways to record with us.

At the barn, remotely with a producer on the call, or on-location with the mobile kit. The same standard, the same producer-led way of working, either way.

At the barn

Come to Chichester and record in the studio at the barn. The fullest version of what we do.

  • One studio, four setups, hour by hour or whole days
  • On-site engineer and producer on every session
  • Solo and Classic hourly packages, or the productised day
  • Free studio tour before you book

Whole-day takeovers and multi-day production blocks are common for agencies and networks.

See the setups →

Remote

When a guest or host cannot get to the barn, we still produce the session properly.

  • A real producer joins your call to run the session
  • Broadcast-grade audio and video captured on each end
  • We sync every track after the recording, so nothing is lost to compression
  • Solo, two-way or multi-guest, anywhere in the world

Best when you want the production lift of a studio session without the travel.

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On-location

We bring the mobile studio to your venue. Same kit, same producer, set up around your event or office.

  • Multi-camera audio and video, lighting, monitors
  • One producer in charge, no DIY on the day
  • Conferences, offices, festivals, location interviews
  • Travel and crew quoted per booking

Tell us the date and the address and we will come back with a number.

Talk about on-location →

Whichever way you record, we can also run full branded content campaigns through our partner company, Virtual Studio Event, from strategy through to the social cut.

Off-site recording, in detail

The same producer-led session, just somewhere else.

Remote and on-location sessions are run the same way as a barn session. A producer is in charge, the kit is broadcast-grade, and the files come back ready to publish or hand to your editor.

How a remote session works

  1. 1 Plan call. A quick conversation to understand the show, the guests, and the kit you already have. We send a setup brief so guests can sound their best.
  2. 2 Production call. A producer joins your recording, watches levels, keeps the conversation moving, and steps in if something goes off the rails.
  3. 3 Sync and deliver. We pull every audio and video track from each end. No compressed Zoom files. You get raw multitrack, a clean edit, or short-form cuts as agreed.

How on-location works

  1. 1 Scope. Tell us the date, the place, and what you are filming. We send a quote covering travel, crew and time, with one producer named on it.
  2. 2 Setup. We arrive ahead of you, build the set, soundcheck, and brief the host. You walk in, sit down, and record.
  3. 3 Deliver. Files come back the same way as a barn session. Raw multitrack, a clean edit, or short-form social cuts, depending on what you booked.

Not ready to hit record?

Come and have a look first. Free 30-minute studio tour.

Drop us a line and we'll arrange a time. Half an hour, on-site, no pitch. We'll show you the studio, walk through the kit, and talk about what you're trying to make. If you'd rather do it over Zoom, that works too.

One free tour per client. Strategy sessions for regular bookings can be booked at any time.

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Inside the restored 16th-century barn at Granary Digital

The building

A 16th-century barn with a studio inside it.

The timber frame is original and largely intact. The room inside it is acoustically treated and fitted for production, and it does not feel like a studio, which is usually the difference between a guarded conversation and an honest one.

The restored 16th-century timber-frame barn that houses the studio, near Chichester

The barn

Inside the barn, original timber frame above the production space

Inside

The barn interior looking towards the recording space

Where you record

Free parking on site, an EV charger, and somewhere sensible to make a cup of tea between takes.

Why we built this

A studio that doesn't feel like one.

Most podcast studios are designed by sound engineers for sound engineers. The result is reliable acoustics in a windowless box. Fine for the sound, less fine for the guest who's about to spend four hours in there.

We thought it was worth caring about the room as well. So when we found a 16th-century barn with the original timber frame still intact, we fitted it out for audio and video production without sanding the character off.

One room, four and a half metres square, treated properly and reset between sessions. Soundproofing where it has to be, an engineer in the room, and a barn that has been in working use since the 16th century.

It's not for everyone. London is closer for most clients. But if you've ever spent a day in a nine-by-six box, you'll understand why we did it.

James Jones, founder

Shows recorded here

A handful of the podcasts we've helped make.

These are real shows. Each embed plays the most recent episode from the channel, so what you see below changes with their release schedule.

Experience

Hilary Jeffs & Peter Kinderman: psychoanalysing the news, one story at a time. Produced by Granary Digital.

Watch on YouTube →

Creative Conversations Podcast

Weekly podcast on the minds and journeys of creatives

Watch on YouTube →

Generationally Speaking

Alastair Greener: bridging the generation gap through conversation

Watch on YouTube →

Honest Talk with Lottie

Reach Charity: the reality of dating with a limb difference, recorded at the barn

Watch on YouTube →

Where to find us

A podcast studio near Chichester, seventy minutes from London.

Chichester station is a direct train from London Victoria, and we're ten minutes by car from there. Parking is on-site and free. There's a charger if you're driving electric.

  • ~70 min

    London Victoria

  • ~50 min

    From Brighton

  • ~20 min

    From Portsmouth

  • ~10 min

    From Chichester station

Exact address shared on booking confirmation.

Things people ask

A few questions answered before you ask.

Where exactly are you?
We are a podcast studio near Chichester, on the Hampshire and West Sussex border. About seventy minutes from London by train into Chichester station, then a short drive. Free on-site parking and an EV charger.
Can you change the setup during a booking?
Yes. The studio resets between formats in minutes. Plenty of clients record an interview in the morning and solo episodes after lunch. For multi-show production days, send us the running order and we will plan the resets around it.
Can you record remote guests or hosts?
Yes. We run fully produced remote sessions: a producer joins your call to run the show, we capture broadcast-grade audio and video on each end, and sync every track together once you have finished recording. Solo hosts, two-way interviews and multi-guest panels all work. You can have raw files at the end, or a fully edited episode.
Can you come out to a venue or event?
Yes. The mobile setup brings the same kit and the same producer to your location: conferences, offices, festivals, location interviews. Travel, crew and time are quoted per booking. Send a date and an address and we will come back with a number.
What's actually included in the hourly rate?
The room, the kit (cameras, microphones, lighting, monitors), the engineer running the session, and a planning call beforehand if it would help. No setup fee, no minimum on top.
Do you do video as well as audio?
Yes. The studio is fitted for both. Three-camera multicam is standard on the Classic package; we can scale up for larger productions.
Can I bring my own producer or editor?
Of course. Our team can hand off raw files at the end of the session, or work alongside yours during the shoot.
What happens after I send an enquiry?
James reads it. You'll hear back within a working day with a quote, a few suggested dates, and a link to grab a fifteen-minute call if you'd like to talk it through.
Is the barn really 16th-century?
Yes. The original timber frame is largely intact. The building has been carefully fitted out for production work; the character is on purpose.
Can I see it before I book?
Absolutely. We run free 30-minute studio tours and strategy sessions. Drop us a line and we’ll arrange a visit.
How much does it cost to make a podcast?
The studio is £108 an hour plus VAT for a Solo session, which is the room, the kit and an engineer. A produced Classic episode is £395 plus VAT, covering up to ninety minutes recording, the full edit and thirty short-form cuts. A full production day is £1,395 plus VAT for Content in a Day, or £2,495 for The Launch if you are starting from nothing. Ongoing production is £1,195 a month plus VAT on The Series, which works out cheaper per episode than booking days one at a time. If you record elsewhere and want the publishing and promotion handled, that is £295 an episode plus VAT.
How long does it take to record an episode?
About an hour for a straightforward interview, plus a short setup and a break. We book most sessions in one-hour or ninety-minute slots. If you're running long-form or a panel, book two hours or a Content in a Day and you'll have room to breathe.
What if I have never recorded a podcast before?
A producer walks you through the format on a planning call before the session, briefs any guests, sets up the room, and runs the recording desk. You focus on the conversation. Most first-time hosts walk out surprised at how simple the day was.
Do you edit the podcasts as well?
Yes. Full audio and video edit, intro and outro, pacing tightened, and thirty short-form social cuts on the Classic package. Content in a Day and The Series include a fully edited episode as standard. If you have your own editor, we can hand off raw multitrack at the end of the session at no extra cost.
How far are you from Portsmouth, Southampton and London?
Around twenty minutes from Portsmouth by road, forty from Southampton, and about seventy from London Victoria by train into Chichester station. Ten minutes from Chichester station itself if you take the train down.
Have you been doing this a while?
Since 2005. Twenty years of running a working studio, thousands of episodes recorded through here. The barn is 16th-century; the studio inside it has been fitted for production for twenty years.
What audio and camera kit do you use?
Broadcast-grade condenser microphones on every seat, a multi-track desk with an engineer, three or four 4K cameras, controlled studio lighting, and a live-edge table designed for on-camera work. Full kit list on request.
Should I book by the hour or book a produced day?
By the hour if you have your own editor and what you need is the room, the kit and an engineer running the session. A produced day if you would rather turn up with a topic and leave with the finished pieces. A day at the barn runs in three blocks: the podcast recording, lunch and a proper reset, then the headshot sitting. You will see rough cuts before you go, and the finished edit, the clips and the retouched shots come back inside a working week. If you are not sure, say what you are making on the enquiry form and we will tell you which one costs less for the result you actually want.
Do you handle publishing and promotion for a show you did not record?
Yes. The publishing automation runs on whatever you already record, wherever you record it. From the transcript it builds the show notes, a fact check, vertical clips with captions, artwork cards and a week of social copy, then schedules the episode, the website entry, the video and the social queue once you have approved it, and verifies on release day that everything actually landed. Your involvement is two sentences per episode. See the publishing page for how the three passes work.
I have never launched a podcast. Where do I even start?
Look at The Launch (£2,495 plus VAT). It is built exactly for this: strategy, brand pack, hosting and distribution setup, one recording day at the barn (trailer plus your first two episodes), edit, clips, first-month schedule, handover call. Every step of the checklist covered. One working month from 'we should have a podcast' to Episode 1 live. Most first-time podcasters roll from The Launch into The Series (£1,195/month) for the ongoing rhythm, but you are not tied to anything.

Let's get you booked

Tell us what you're recording.

Whether it's your first time or your fiftieth, we're here to help you make something good. We'll come back within a working day with a quote, a few dates that work, and a link to grab a fifteen-minute call.

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