Countryside Alliance: Recent Episodes
Countryside Alliance
Updates, insights and analysis from the UK’s foremost rural campaign group. We’ll be talking about shooting, hunting, politics and all manner of other issues of interest to rural community.
Tim Bonner, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, talks to writer, presenter, conservationist and controversialist about his seminal book 'Decline of an English Village' 40 years after its original publication. Subjects from Countryfile to rewilding come under Robin's sharp scrutiny and his views are as trenchant as ever.
Polly Portwin, the Countryside Alliance's Head of Hunting, talks to former professional huntsman Patrick Martin and joint-master Andrew Sallis who offer their tips on blowing the hunting horn while discussing its history, its significance on the hunting field and how the horn has influenced music.
Sam Carlisle, Manager for the Campaign for Shooting, talks to eminent fly fisherman and Director of Fishing for Schools, Charles Jardine, about how he’s coping during lockdown without fishing, what makes fly fishing such a special sport and about Charles’ charity work for Fishing for Schools.
Chapmans Butchers have recently been crowned as a regional winner in the East of England in the Countryside Alliance Awards. Listen to them discuss the Awards and their rural business on Three Counties Radio.
As part of an interview for the Countryside Alliance magazine (My Countryside) to be published next month, George Eustice MP met with Countryside Alliance Political Relations Manager James Somerville-Meikle to discuss the agriculture bill, Brexit and future policies on agriculture and fishing.