FieldsportsChannel's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Aaron Jones presents a look behind the scenes at Fieldsports Channel - a gentle chat - shooting the breeze with the likes of Andy Crow, Roy Lupton, Paul Childerley, David Wright and Charlie Jacoby.
With the Gloirus Twelftth just around the corner, the GWCT gives its verdict on what the 2026 grouse-shooting season will be like. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT director of Scotland Nick Hesford, senior advisor Scotland Felix Meister and upland ecologist Leah Cloonan talk about that plus the GWCT's upland flagship Maternal Grouse project.
Red grouse have declined by 33% in recent years. With some moors producing consistent bags and others not shooting for several years, GWCT's research team has set out to discover why.
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For the GWCT, visit GWCT.org.uk
Richard Bailey from the Peak District Moorland Group calls the wildfires burning across Derbyshire a 'fire wave'. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about what the Westminster government can do about it.
Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound
Find the Peak District Moorland Group on Facebook
Jo Pearson's job at the Moorland Association is to help upland estates fill out forms. These forms are applications for controlled burning licences from Natural England – and Jo knows that, if she fills out enough forms, DEFRA may get to hear about it, and may realise what a pointless exercise 'controlled burning' forms are. She speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre.
Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound
Visit MoorlandAssociation.org
Nobody is in charge of preventing wildfires. That's the charge Andrew Gilruth of the Moorland Association levels against the Westminster government. Successive government failings mean the fires we see raging in the UK's uplands can be stopped months in advance, if only there were the political will. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre.
Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound
Visit MoorlandAssociation.org
Victoria Atkins MP and her front bench team come to the 2026 Game Fair to show Conservative support for shooting and hunting. The shadow DEFRA secretary speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about where the Labour government is going wrong – and how the Tories made mistakes, too.
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David Beach is a wildlife filmmaker. He comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025 to talk about the difficulties that hunting tourism has presenting its case as the best way for funding conservation worldwide.
Counting wildlife stops the government banning shooting. Roger Draycott from the GWCT, Jodie Case from Perdix Wildlife Supplies and Schöffel Working Conservationist Award-winning gamekeeper Rupert Brewer from the Bisterne estate explain how it works for them, and how the PerdixPro system works.
- Click here for more about PerdixPro
- Here for the GWCT
- And here for the Bisterne estate
Nigel Vardy lost his fingers and his nose in an accident on Mt McKinley in 1999. Since then, he has refound his love of shooting – but re-learning to shoot has been a challenge. He tells his story.
For more from Nigel, visit MrFrostbite.com
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Doyen of the barrellers Bill Blacker is part of the beating heart of the British gun trade. He joines Charlie on the stage at the Carter Jones Game Fair Theatre to discuss his work and wider issues, such as how to cope with the forthcoming UK restrictions on lead shot.
Visit BillBlacker.com
Every year, José Souto and Paul Childerley bring a roe carcase to the Game Fair and show how they break it down. They come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie about how and why, plus they launch into the lead ammo debate and how supermarkets sell venison.
Find José on Instagram and click here for Paul's website
What's it like reintroducing a large predator to the wild? One person with firsthand experience is Maria Davidson, who manages the large carnivore programme for Safari Club International. She comes from the Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife, which has an impressive track record reintroducing black bears – as long as we can hunt them. She talks to Charlie Jacoby at the 2026 SCI Convention in Nashville.
For SCI Foundation, go to https://safariclubfoundation.org/
For the black bear film, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYHw5kHnLGA
River Monsters star Jeremy Wade comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about rivers and fish.
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Retired professor Simon Denny comes to the 2025 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie about the future for upland gamekeepers.
Simon Denny's report is at MoorlandAssociation.org/post/new-report-highlights-gamekeepers-crucial-role-in-wildfire-prevention-and-moorland-conservation
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The last slipper at the Waterloo Cup came to the Carer Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2025, 20 years after the last meeting at Altcar in Cheshire. Arron Atmore tells Charlie Jacoby how Tony Blair's hunting ban has failed the hare, and how coursing is still thriving and still conserving hares in both Ireland and Pakistan, if not in England.
For the Coursing Museum, go to TheCoursingMuseum.com
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News channel @GBNewsOnline sent reporter Jack Carson to the Game Fair in July 2025. While he was there, he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk to Charlie Jacoby about what in the countryside makes TV news.
While Keir Starmer's government is keen to ban trophy hunting in other peoples countries, it has no views about the roughly 20,000 stag heads handed to grateful hunting tourists by paid stalkers in Scotland each year. Deer manager Niall Rowantree discusses the issues around 'trophy hunting' and how Starmer has got it wrong.
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Here is the story behind the PDS1. David Wright talks to the man who came up with it, Peter Jones – and asks the question: is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you?
You can find the PDS1 in our shop, priced at £395
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Ian Bell and Terry Behan from BASC join Nick Levett-Scrivener from non-lead cartridge importer Shooting Star to discuss the Westminster government's plan to restrict lead cartridges. They join Charlie on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025.
Click here for the latest from BASC on non-lead ammo.
For Shooting Star, go to ShootingStarCC.co.uk
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025, two months before he takes up his job, to talk to Charlie about his latest book, Uncommon Ground.
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For Patrick's book, Uncommon Ground, visit Amzn.to/42OF6tU
For more from Patrick, visit Telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pa-pe/patrick-galbraith/
Iona Campbell, who set up Women Who Work in Fieldsports, and BASC vice chair Claire Sadler, who runs Women in Shooting, come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 to explain their work to Charlie Jacoby.
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For more from Iona, visit WomenWhoWorkinFieldsports.co.uk
For Claire, go to BASC.org.uk/women-in-shooting
Professor Adam Hart talks to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025 about the threats facing hunting tourism and the scientific evidence that it is good for conservation.
For more from Adam, visit https://x.com/adamhartscience
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Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread's Southill Estate in Bedfordshire, which combines a mix of grey partridge shooting and arable. Benedict and Southill gamekeeper Paul Dunn explain how 'restoring' nature and shooting can work together, including restoring wetlands and reintroducing beavers. They talk to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025.
For more from Benedict, go to RestoreNature.com
For the Southill Estate, visit Facebook.com/p/The-Southill-Estate-100093051180196
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Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of the three-day Game Fair at Ragley Hall, farmer and former MP Neil Parish comments on what we have learned from DEFRA, and what’s coming up on the rural agenda.
Click here for Neil’s own podcast.
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice and new chief executive Nick von Westenholz set out their vision for the charity.
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government’s record on the countryside, including the family farm tax, lead ammo ban, trophy imports, Countryside Stewardship schemes and whether he is in favour of nationalising farming.
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Greg Smith MP says how he spoke up for grouseshooting, even though his constituency is in Buckinghamshire. Plus he examines other threats to shooting sports.
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Robbie Moore MP talks about how he and others disposed of the attempt by BBC TV’s Chris Packham to force a ban on grouseshooting.
Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP explains the threats to shooting sports from the Labour government.
TV chef James Martin and his friend, celebrity barman or 'mixologist' Merlin Griffiths, came to the Game Fair in 2024 – James to run the restaurant and Merlin to pour the drinks. They came and sat down with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where they talked about food, booze and how to make a great cocktail.
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TV chef James Martin came to the Game Fair in 2024 to run the restaurant. He took time out to visit Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, where he talks about his life in cooking and the challenges facing game meat marketing.
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Professor Rory Putman and deer expert Niall Rowantree discuss Scotland's next big deer problem: sika. The Scottish government has successfully wiped out large numbers of iconic Scottish red deer. In their place are coming a new, invasive species, Japanese sika. More a horde than a herd, our experts expect they will be Scotland's number one deer within a few years.
For Niall's website, visit Deerman.co.uk
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Charlie's dad, Martin Jacoby, explains how the hunter-gatherers of 200,000 years ago slowly evolved into both sport hunters and animal rights activists.
Find Martin's book on Amazon
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Ben Harrower from BH Wildlife Consultancy uses a thermal drone for a unique aerial view of how the six UK deer species populations, and our wild boar, are expanding and contracting across the UK. As part of our filming for A Year in the Life of Sika, Ben covers all aspects of his work from the advances in drone tech to the incredible wildlife moments he is able to witness from 400ft in the air.
Find BH Wildlife Consultancy at BHWildlifeConsultancy.com
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Ian Grindy from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust tells the story of the charity and explains why it is needed more than ever. He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
For more from the GWT, visit TheGamekeepersWelfareTrust.com
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They shot 5,000 rabbits in one day in Shropshire and 7,000 in one day at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The rabbit has had a relatively short but dramatic history in the UK, from Roman food source through population explosions, and becoming one of the most prized quarry species of the great Victorian shots. Shooting writer Simon Reinhold tells the animal's story to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
For more from Simon, visit SimonReinhold.co.uk
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Nick Fox has been working on this book all his life. The hunter, zoologist and falconer has brought out Hunting Ethics: A Personal Journey. In this podcast with Charlie Jacoby, he talks about different elements of the book, including why it is innate within us to hunt – and governments can't ban hunting.
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Buy Hunting Ethics at Falcons.co.uk/product/hunting-ethics-a-personal-journey/
Teresa Dent CBE led the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as chief executive for 22 years. In the spring of 2025, she retires. In July 2024, she came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk about the trust's work, and the difficulty of producing science that politicians can use.
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Find the GWCT at GWCT.org uk
SJ Hunt runs the Country Food Trust, a charity that delivers game, venison, poultry and vegetarian meals to food banks and the homeless. It is the major market for pheasants, partridges and deer carcases. Talking to Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, she explains how it works.
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Find the Country Food Trust at TheCountryFoodTrust.org
BASC chief executive Ian Bell explains the new Value of Shooting report , which shows how vital the sport is to rural economies. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
Click here for more about the report
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Louisa Clutterbuck from the game meat marketing agency Eat Wild explains her role, and how it fits in with other agencies such as Game To Eat and Eat Game. She talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. (And she had the baby, a boy called Jasper).
For more, go to Eat Wild's:
- Website
- X.com
Greg Smith MP says how to deal with the Labour government. Of course, he was talking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024, just after the general election, and much water has gone under the rural bridge since then – but his advice stands.
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Simon Whitehead has been a 'celebrity ferreter' all of his working life. He talks about the job to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
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Dick and Angel Strawbridge from the Escape To The Chateau TV series head to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 to talk about their lives with Charlie Jacoby.
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The star of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade, joins Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. This podcast is an amalgamation of two interviews in the theatre, where he talks about the series that made hinm famous, and what projects he plans to do next.
For more from Jeremy, go to JeremyWade.co.uk
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Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa's most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port Elizabeth and operating all over southern Africa. He tells his story.
For more about Splitting Image Taxidermy, visit SplittingImageTaxidermy.co.za
Thanks to Safari Club International's Life Hunter Advocate Society for supporting this film. Visit SafariClub.org
Deerstalker and wildlife manager Niall Rowantree talks to deer biologist Professor Rory Putman about the remarkable sika deer, as part of our filming of the Year in the Life of Sika. Rory explains why sika are so successful when reds struggle, how their range is increasing and why they are so difficult, in fact now impossible, to get on top of. They discuss hybridisation, rewilding, and the idea of introducing wolves and lynx to control deer, which Rory regards as fantasy.
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For A Year in the Life of Sika, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/yearinthelifeofsika
This series is supported by Blaser, Hornady and HIKMicro
Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breeding birds, and why they are not actually that endangered at all – despite what the anti-shooters like to claim. Andrew talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
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Mike Labuschagne has been working as a wildlife ranger in Malawi for more than 30 years. He used to have funding from the US-based animal rights organisation IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to help the elephants of Kasungu. Now he believes that IFAW should be charged with the murder of local people for wilfully releasing 263 elephants into the area, which can’t support them.
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- IFAW’s press release about the Kasungu elephant relocation
- There is some controversy about how IFAW made its statement, as detailed on South Africa’s Daily Maverick news website
The Flyfishers’ Club has been men-only since its foundation in 1884. A chance remark by Marina Gibson at the Hay Festival sparked a media storm that has forced club members to vote on whether to allow women members. Marina explains to Charlie Jacoby and an audience at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 the reasons she is right.
Click here for more about Marina
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What has the Westminster government got in store for gamebirds and shooting? The news from the GWCT is good – but their top staff warn us not to be complacent. Sir Jim Paice and Roger Draycott from the GWCT talk to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024
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Speaking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game fair Theatre, Digby Taylor from GunsOnPegs.com announces his new research. It’s the most accurate predictor of prices for gameshooting around.
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When the police took the guns from Chris Sharp after Chris was the victim of an assault, he turned to lawyers for help. One of them, Peter Glenser KC, joins Chris on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie what happened, and where he has got to now with his case.
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For more on this story, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/chrissharpgungrab
Shadow DEFRA minister Steve Barclay says Daniel Zeichner should ‘get off the fence’ and announce Labour’s plans for the countryside. Plus he warns that even though the DEFRA minister is broadly pro-shooting, he can’t do much to stop Labour bringing in anti-hunting and shooting legislation. Barclay was talking to Fieldsports Channel’s Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Game Fair.
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Ed Swales and Ronan Brown from Hunting Kind join Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2024 to explain how hunting could qualify for protection under human rights legislation, with hunters classified as a ‘protected minority’.
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With a new government in power in Westminster, three people with a stake in the future of fieldsports and the countryside come together to talk to Charlie about what Labour could or even will do – to trail hunting, trophy imports, shooting sports and farming. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of July 2024 are Countryside Alliance chief executive Tim Bonner, farmer and former MP Neil Parish, who used to chair the EFRA committee at Westminster, and first up is Christopher Graffius, who runs communications and public affairs at BASC.
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Former MP Neil Parish looks at the likely outcomes from the 2024 UK general election, including which MPs will make it, which won't, what to expect from a Labour government (if it wins), and what you can do to limit the damage.
For Neil's own podcast, go to https://shows.acast.com/we-can-do-both-pod
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It’s the job that many of us put off, sometimes for weeks, a few for months, a handful for several seasons. John Spary and Joe Hocking are gunsmiths: the ones who get to clean, check, repair and occasionally pick up the pieces of our guns. They explain what goes into a gun service, plus how to treat your gun throughout the year in order to reduce your service bill.
John and Joe run Duchy Gunsmith in Cornwall. Visit DuchyGunsmith.co.uk
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UK prime minister Tony Blair said that his 2004 Hunting Act would benefit foxes. Twenty years later, it turns out he was wrong. In a chat with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023, Jim Barrington, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, spells out the mistakes that Blair made, and how he damaged both animal welfare and rural communities.
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Gareth Wyn Jones says join the revolution - the food and farming revolution. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023.
Find Gareth on YouTube
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Nick Doherty and Laura Saunsbury are the authors of the definitive book on British gun laws. The Firearms Law Handbook provides useful info for shooters, police firearms licensing officers, shops and gun ranges. The couple works in the UK during the week and live near Toulouse. Charlie Jacoby goes to meet them at their home in France to record a short, sharp podcast (before the rain starts).
The Firearms Law Handbook on Amazon
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Charlie Jacoby is back in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre talking to Ian Coghill, who demolishes the RSPB’s People’s Plan for Nature, he explains the point of Aim to Sustain, which he chairs, and he spells out what the world of shooting should do to see off threats from the conservation industry.
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Jeremy Wade from TV’s River Monsters makes two visits to the 2023 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. He talks to Charlie about his early life fishing, his favourite kinds of fishing and his definition of ‘sporting’ fishing.
For more clips from the series, visit the River Monsters YouTube channel
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Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states.
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Ross Brawn, managing director of one of today’s biggest spectator sports, Formula One, and a keen shooter, chatted with Charlie Jacoby in the Game Fair Theatre in July. They talked about how to re-establish clayshooting to international greatness.
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Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023.
For Simon’s new book, visit Simon-Whitehead.com/pugs-and-drummers-book
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In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vets saved some of its sight. They named the animal ‘Hope’. Wicus Diederichs from Rockwood reports on Hope’s progress and how the other rhinos in the nursery are treating her. He also talks about the realities of rhino conservation and the challenges he faces.
Rockwood Conservation’s website is RockwoodConservation.com
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The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2023 discuss the animal's future in the UK. They are deer experts Niall Rowantree and Martin Edwards, Mark Russell from Carter Jonas, whose clients deal with deer management, top venison chef José Souto and Bedfordshire-based deer manager and sporting agent Paul Childerley.
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Pigeon shooter, game shot and deerstalker Nicole Moore comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023 to talk to Charlie Jacoby about her love of the countryside and shooting sports. She talks about what she gets judged for. Do you think it’s being black, being a woman or how she shoots? Find out in this podcast chat.
Find Nicole on Instagram
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Three firearms licensing officers came to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023 to make the case to Charlie Jacoby for how well they are doing. You may agree or you may disagree with them. They are Chris Downs from the Metropolitan Police, Adrian Davis from Warwickshire Constabulary and Paul Quinton from Essex police.
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DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty, Ian Bell and Dr Marnie Lovejoy on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023.
Between them, they explain what GL43 is, how the system of general licences has lost trust with its client base, the people who live in the countryside, and how DEFRA is doubling down on getting it so badly wrong.
James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers.
For River Action, go to https://riveractionuk.com/
It’s Shooting Times editor Patrick Galbraith versus sporting agent Mark Osborne in this one-hour debate at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. The GWCT’s Roger Draycott provides the voice of reason and host Charlie Jacoby tries to stop them from fighting about the topic on stage.
Daniel Zeichner MP is shadow environment minister. He came to the Game Fair in 2021, 2022 and in 2023 he took to the stage at the Game Fair Theatre to explain Labour’s policies on shooting (no current need for regulation), trailhunting (he will do his best for it) and trophy imports and exports (nothing he can do).
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Greg Smith MP is horrified at the way DEFRA has handled crises such as rescinding GL43. He is at the 2023 Game Fair and lams into Natural England and sneaky civil servants with an anti-shooting agenda.
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Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP is our unofficial minister for shooting. At the 2023 Game Fair, he tells Charlie Jacoby how DEFRA is getting it wrong.
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With children dying every week from an epidemic of human-wildlife conflict, the government of India knows it has to tackle the problem. It has to transition form preservation to conservation. But how? Four experts put forward their views: Dr MK Ranjitsinh, Dr HS Pabla, Rajeev Mathew and Latika Nath.
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Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own meat.
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For more from Katie, visit KatieHargreavesArt.com
It's Ian Coghill, ex chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, vs Duncan Orr-Ewing of RSPB, slugging it out on the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre stage about whether the RSPB is failing birds, and whether grousemoors are good for them. Charlie Jacoby is moderator.
Gareth Wyn Jones is the outspoken Welsh hill farmer who starred in the BBC’s The Family Farm. He believes that the disconnection between town and country is driving a wedge between the two communities – and, in this talk, he spells out why.
Find Gareth on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook
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UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation, the Moorland Association and the Gun Trade Association are among those involved in the survey. They are calling on shooters to take part. The independent research specialists, Cognisense, will obtain facts and figures which will reflect the importance of shooting in the UK. The previous report in 2014 revealed at least 600,000 people in the UK shoot live quarry, clay pigeons or targets. The value of shooting was worth £2 billion to the UK economy. The new report will be published in 2023. BASC's Caroline Bedell explains the survey to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2022.
For the survey, go to ValueOfShooting.co.uk
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In September 2004, eight campaigners broke in to the chamber of the House of Commons to protest against Tony Blair's ban on hunting with hounds. Blair was ignoring the largest ever peacetime march, more than 400,000 people, who marched on Westminster in 2002 protesting against the same law. Blair's ban, which came into force in 2005, has achieved the opposite of what blair hoped. It has damaged animal welfare and hunting is more popular than ever.
At the 2022 Game Fair, six members of the Westminster Eight come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to relive that day. They tell Charlie Jacoby the story of what happened and the repercussions.
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The antis brought in bills to restrict hunting in England, Wales and Scotland – but none of them work. So they want to bring in new bills. Ed Swales from Hunting Kind explains the challenges facing hunting with hounds in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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A panel of experts discuss grouse prospects for the 2022 season, plus the political threats facing grouseshooting. They are Mark Osborne from William Powell Sporting, Andrew Fallows from Carter Jonas and Adrian Blackmore from the Countryside Alliance.
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Chris Horne from GunsOnPegs presents the findings of the GunsOnPegs Game Shooting Census 2022/23. It’s going to be a tough year for gameshooting in the UK, with bird flu hitting bird imports, and hard on the heels of two years of lost bookings because of covid. Chris explains the numbers to Charlie.
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There are 30,000 legal gun-owners in London. Chris Downs, head of SCO 19 at the Met, and Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert, which provides medical certificates to shooters who need them for shotgun and firearm certificates, explain to Charlie what’s going on with firearms licensing in the capital.
For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast62
Shadow food, farming and fisheries minister and Labour MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner makes the case for a Labour government running the countryside and being a force for good for countrysports. It’s an uphill task.
He won’t repeal Tony Blair’s foxhunting ban but he says he and his Labour colleagues are happy to work with countryside organisations.
He addresses the charge that Labour can’t see beyond gun-ownership.
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Nigel Farage may be passionate about Europe but he is fundamentalist about bluefin tuna fishing. He says that, thanks to Brexit, the UK is able to develop its own bluefin sport fishing business.
He explains the thrill of catching Britain’s most significant big game fish, which you can now do in a limited number of boats out of Cornish ports, fishing tag-and-release.
It’s not just fishing. Nigel speaks up for taking the opportunity to set fire to European regulations. He wants to see a rethink on the ban on lead shot.
Above all, he tells country people to put pressure on the government. “I am struck that while there are still millions of us engaged in angling and shooting, we don’t have many political champions.”
It’s not just government. “We have got to deal with the RSPB who appear to have completely lost their marbles,” he says.
Nigel praises Donald Trump as a peacekeeper - and speaks to
Nigel predicts a Liz Truss win, though he doubts she will taker the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Jodie Case is an owl nut. Representing the Owl Box Initiative, she brings an owl box to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. She explains how to make the ideal owl box, to attract owls to your garden, plus talks about her work researching owls.
For more, go to @OwlBoxInit and @JCaseNature
Find out about the OBI on the GWCT website
A discussion on what makes the perfect holiday letting business with Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre: Andrew Fallows of Carter Jonas advises landowners and farmers on how to diversify – and the rediscovery of UK holidays by locked-down Brits means he has never been business, Meanwhile, Ashley Vellacott turned his Somerset farm into a holiday accommodation enterprise, with his wife, Jess, running the lettings business Sleeps12.com for both his and now other holiday lets.
For more from Andrew and Carter Jonas, go to CarterJonas.co.uk
For more about Ashley’s business, go to Sleeps12.com
Let’s talk lead shot. On stage, at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2021, is Alex Levett-Scrivenor from non-toxic shot company Bioammo, foxshooter and old lead purist Robert Bucknall, and Andrew Gilruth from the GWCT. Host is Charlie Jacoby. The four of them run through the lead shot issues, ask why it has to go, and how much could the shooting organisations have handled the phase-out better?
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Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services used the covid lockdowns to get his deerstalking and venison supply businesses underway. He is now supplying local shops, restaurants and has a popular venison box scheme underway, plus he provides butchery courses and guided stalking.
For more from Tom, visit DartmoorDeerServices.com
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John Macnab, the 1925 novel by John Buchan, has inspired an entire subculture of imitators, including the taking of a salmon, grouse (or brace) and stag on one day on an estate. John Buchan’s granddaughter Ursula Buchan comes to the Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie Jacoby the novel’s back story, and a little of the life of her famous forebear.
Buy the paperback on Amazon
Buy Ursula Buchan’s biography of her grandfather on Amazon
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Two Scottish gamekeepers and a gamekeeper’s wife talk to Charlie about the evive conference in Perth in November 2021. They bravely went along and listed to Packham and the RSPB trot out lies about grousemoors. However, they came away convinced that those of us on the side of nature can win this battle, as long as we keep pushing the science behind shooting and conservation.
Click here for more about their experience.
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Tristan Breijer takes the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre back in July 2021. He is one of the team behind the MyFieldsports app, known in the rest of the world as the MyHunt app, who wants to use the power of shooters’ mobile phones to put us front and centre in the conservation debate.
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We bring together two vegans and two hunters to debate the issues. They meet on stage at the 2021 Game Fair at Ragley Hall.
Ryan Dalton runs the popular Into The Wild Podcast IntoTheWild.podbean.com
Katie Hargreaves is a wildlife artist KatieHargreavesArt.com
Paul Childerley is a hunting guide (and so much more) Instagram.com/paulchilderley
Charlie Jacoby is host of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre
Buy Katie's print of Charlie and David at the Fieldsports Channel shop
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After years of telling them that wild meat is good for, it’s traceable and comes with low food miles, the mainstream is picking up on the importance of shooting your own supper. At the Scottish Game Fair 2021, Fife chef Chris Trotter brought together Mark Bush from local food marketing group Great Perthshire, who also runs Summer Harvest Oils, professional forager Amy Rankine from Hipsters & Hobos, and Pete Moore from Nature.Scot, which sponsored the event, and is now turning its hand to persuading the world to eat more venison.
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There’s something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world - and especially the UK. Now, Norfolk angler Stephen Harper has produced The Mightiest Mahseer. Angling Trust ambassador Martin Salter is also a mahseer angler. He interviews Stephen about the fish, records, angling books, snakes and scorpions.
Buy the book here
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Read Martin’s review of the book here
Bill Harriman – whom you may recognise as an arms expert from BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow – has written the definitive book on the bayonet. He discusses it with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the Game Fair, Ragley Hall, July 2021.
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Ian Coghill has written the book that the RSPB, the National Trust, Natural England and Wild Justice ought to read. But they won’t. He explains why moorland is so important to the UK, how gamekeepers have got it right when it comes to moorland management, and how the ‘conservation industry’ (the organisations just mentioned) have got it so, so wrong.
To buy Ian’s book, visit Fieldsports.shop/product/moorland-matters-by-ian-coghill/
In 2004, Tony Blair restricted hunting with hounds because, he said, it was good for the welfare of the fox. Since then, some estimates put UK fox numbers down 40%. Former head of the League Against Cruel Sports Jim Barrington and journalist Richard Negus want to know if Blair was right or wrong. Plus they want to know what the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, thinks he is doing by introducing and animal sentience bill. They talk to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2021.
You can’t win an election without winning rural seats. That’s Sir Keir Starmer’s credo. The man he has appointed to shadow the countryside is Daniel Zeichner MP, and he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre tent. It’s all part of Labour’s Rural England Policy Review.
Take part in Labour’s Rural England Policy Review
Click here for Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy
Thanks to BASC for inviting him.
Adam Henson talks about Jeremy Clarkson, BBC Countryfile and the importance of game meat. Country Food Trust ambassador Adam and CFT chief executive Tim Woodward are on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre for an interview by Charlie Jacoby.
For the Country Food Trust, visit TheCountryFoodTrust.org
Peter Wilson and Matt French are two of the most decorated athletes who have shot for Team GB. Recorded with interviewer Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2021, they explain what it's like to go into an Olympics as a shooter. However, their original sport, double trap, no longer exists at the Olympics. Peter criticises the way the International Shooting Sports Federation handled the cancellation of a clayshooting discipline.
Matt now shoots Olympic Skeet and Peter Olympic Trap. They talk about the future of shooting at the Olympics.
While British antis put on black balaclavas and carry martial arts weapons, in France they put on clown masks and carry chainsaws. It’s a lot more dangerous and a lot more impassioned. How do you face this threat in the media?
Step forward Richard sur Terre, a YouTube channel that has become one of the major voices in the fight against anti-hunters in France. In this interview, Richard explains what he is trying to do and how he does it.
Click here for Richard sur Terre's YouTube channel
Eduardo Gonçalves brought out three books in 2020 supporting his own Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and we have found someone who has read them. Charlie Jacoby talks to Jens Ulrik Høgh from the Nordic Safari Club
For the full story, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast41
A slight change in podcast style this episode as David and Aaron thought it would be a good idea to hijack the Fieldsports radio station and call Cia ap Bryn. you may know Cai as our star in the hunt & cook series. However did you know he works in the nuclear industry? Has discovered a taste for testicles thanks to his mate trigger, and he was born not only in the same village but in the same building as our very own David Wright!
As you will hear Cai is passionate about hunting and cooking. Reconnecting people with the idea of hunting delicious, sustainable wild meat and cooking it over an open flame is something that we humans have been mastering and enjoying for millennia.
To find out more about Cai and his company Game and Flames then goto: gameandflames.com
Oliver Rampley runs a new kind of guiding - a holistic approach to wildlife where hunting is one part of the story. ind out how he sees the world, and how he stalked an extraordinary perruque roebuck this summer.
For more from Oliver, visit AltanaEurope.com
Charlie Jacoby talks to his father, Martin Jacoby about Martin’s life as a natural historian, his views on how natural history and species work, the history of humankind, and why shooting butterflies is a good idea. He puts forward his ideas about DNA, why we hunt, and why hunting is an essential part of humanity.
###### Dad’s reading list
The Human Population Tsunami: how it could be managed by Martin Jacoby
Grooming gossip and the origin of language by Robin Dunbar What is Life? by Addie Pross
Biophilia by EO Wilson
The Otter by James Williams
The antis ambushed Scotland's political process and, in under a week in June 2020, they pushed through a ban on catching or killing mountain hares. The world of wildlife management has been left reeling. Scottish wildlife manager Niall Rowantree and English 'tourist' falconer Roy Lupton discuss what happened, and what's going to happen to Scotland's hares, with additional material from Clayton Fletcher in South Africa and Jason Doyle in Ireland.
Thanks to
Niall Rowantree WestHighland-Hunting.co.uk
Roy Lupton
Clayton Fletcher TinasheGroup.co.za
Jason Doyle
To see our Eaglecam films in full, visit Fcha.nl/eaglecam and Fcha.nl/eaglecam-2
For our piece about coursing in Ireland, go to
Fcha.nl/how-coursing-helps-hares
With battles to be fought including trophy hunting, lead shot and the future of gamekeeping, we ask the candidates for the 2020 BASC Council elections – people who care about their shooting – what their views are. How should BASC and the world of shooting approach these and other topics? Is it even BASC’s job?
For the full story, visit http://Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast36
To vote, visit https://vote.ukevote.uk/basc
Will coronavirus lead to a game meat ban? Did the BGA sell out to BASC? Incoming BGA chief executive Liam Stokes talks to Charlie Jacoby about the future of his organisation and what he plans for members, for the public, and for government.
For more about the BGA, visit BritishGameAlliance.co.uk
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How do you get started in shooting when you are young? In his Lockdown Chatshow, Charlie talks to organisers of some of the UK’s biggest young shots programmes: David Florent of the Schools Challenge, Rob Collins of Pass It On Young Sports and Richard Kirkham of Next Generation Shooting, plus deerstalker Alex Vankov. They explain what to do.
UK-based young shots programmes
BASC Young Shots https://basc.org.uk/youngshots/
The Schools Challenge https://www.theschoolschallenge.co.uk/
Pass It On Young Sports http://www.pass-it-on-young-sports.org.uk/
Next Generation Shooting https://ngsfieldsports.com/
Alex Vankov’s website is https://www.theroe.co.uk/
Beretta and Browning are making respirators for hospital to help the coronavirus effort in Italy and Belgium. Meanwhile, Blaser in Germany is making masks. Daniele Piva, Adrien Koutny and Frederic Hanner talk to Charlie about their companies' efforts.
Thanks to:
- Daniele Piva, http://www.beretta.com
- Adrien Koutny http://www.browning.eu
- Frederic Hanner http://www.blaser.de
What's going on in the British countryside during the coronavirus? Charlie finds out.
Thanks to: Garry Doolan at BASC http://www.basc.org.uk
Gamekeepers Welfare Trust video https://www.facebook.com/GamekeepersWelfareTrust/videos/295467491431002/
Tim Pilbeam, Rucksack & Rifle
Simon Whitehead http://www.pakefieldferrets.co.uk
Frederic Hanner at Blaser http://www.blaser.de
Jon Bailey at Bailey’s Shooting & Countrywear http://www.baileysshooting.co.uk
Rob Fickling, Beyond The Divide https://www.beyondthedivide.com.au/
It’s shooting sports in the time of coronavirus. What’s going to happen to the 2020 gameshooting season?
Chris Horne from GunsOnPegs and gamekeeper / sporting agent Paul Childerley explain what’s happening to shoots. Niall Rowantree from West Highland Hunting talks about how the Highlands of Scotland are coping.
What is the world of shooting feeling, as Boris Johnson exempts bicycling but says nothing about deerstalking and pest control? Garry Doolan from BASC talks about that, plus the future of firearms licensing.
And countryside events have moved. There are three taking place on the weekend of 18-20 September. John Allison from the Countryman Show which is taking place at Manchester lets us know what he thinks.
What Coronavirus means for British shooting sports: read our article: https://Fcha.nl/coronavirus
Want to support our GoFundMe to get 500 protective suits to the NHS? http://gf.me/u/xtbawm
Changes to the countryside calendar here: https://Fcha.nl/countryside-calendar-changes/
Thanks to everyone who took part - and thanks to their wives and partners who, for most of them, wrangled the cameras and microphones:
Chris Horne http://www.gunsonpegs.com
Paul Childerley paul@childerleysporting.co.uk
Niall Rowantree http://www.westhighland-hunting.co.uk
Garry Doolan http://www.basc.org.uk
John Allison https://shootingshow.co.uk
Roy Lupton really doesn't like lead. He's a falconer whose birds have suffered from lead particles in gralloch and even lead shot in rabbits. He talks to Chris Parish in the USA, who enjoys hunting/shooting sports, and who is also an environmentalist who captures Californian condors and monitors them for lead poisoning. Between them, they show how a lead bullet ban is working for big raptors, including condors. Plus Chris explains how the various lead bans in the USA have affected raptors.
Chris is condor project director for the PeregrineFund.org
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a much-loved national treasure - but when it comes to hunting tourism, he can’t help telling whoppers. Together with Eduardo Goncalves of the Campaign Against Trophy Hunting, he takes to the Sky News TV studio to try to encourage Boris Johnson to ban hunting overseas, even though that would harm conservation efforts across the world. In this podcast, Charlie Jacoby talks to Jens-Ulrik Høgh of the Nordic Safari Club about the mistakes in Sir Ran’s interview and the downright lies.
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Andy Crow, Jaf Jefferson from the South Somerset Ferrets discuss the UK's rabbit problem: there aren't enough rabbits.
Click here for Jaf's YouTube channel.
For more on disappearing rabbits, read this article in The Sun.
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What are the advances in rifle and shotgun technology? Frederic Hanner and Josh McBrayer from gunmaker Blaser explain what gunmakers have done recently and what they are likely to do next. Visit Blaser.de
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Tim and David chat about the behind the scenes while on their moose hunt in Northern Sweden. To watch the film, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwQldY6J-8
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Here is the film on our website: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast26
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You know Terry Doe - Airgun World editor, pundit, punner and practically a strawberry punnet in his own right - talks carp, the Romany life, wordplay and the meaning of life.
For the British Shooting Show, go to ShootingShow.co.uk
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He's the man behind Drop Bear, the L.E.S.B.I.A.N shooting device and almost naked shotgun techniques. Now he's here to tell the naked truth. He's @BrucesShooting
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Here is the film on our website: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast25
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Peter Moore edits Shooting Sports magazine, one of the UK's top gun magazines. The British Shooting Show is a gun show. But surely the UK banned all guns? Not at all. Guns and shooting are thriving. For more from Pete, visit Gunmart TV
Here is the film on our website: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast24
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Ollie Williams, big game hunter, conservationist and Love Islander, chats to Charlie in this podcast recorded at the British Shooting Show 2020. Did he jump? Was he pushed? And hat does he really think of hunting, shooting and Laura?
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Top ferreter Simon Whitehead talks about his lurcher Tawny and friends, including ferrets and some hawk action. ‘She is a honest stamp of a dog and that is all can ask of her,' he says at the Game Fair Theatre 2019.
Simon’s website is PakefieldFerrets.co.uk
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Catapults are going global. Presenter of The Catapult show on YouTube, Gamekeeper John, talks about the growth of the sport of slingshots, and shows off his tips and tricks at the Game Fair Theatre 2019.
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This is our chat with a former police intelligence officer, who was in charge of researching animal rights activists. He explains their organisation, and how to use the system to get back at them.
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▶ Bite Back which is the antis' online brag board
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Vegetarians and the climate change movement: shouldn't they be hunting? With climate change at the top of the agenda and vegetarians arguing that meat-based agriculture is part of the problem, some say vegetarian diets are actually doing more harm than good. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, Rachel Carrie explores the options.
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Jeremy Wade’s series River Monsters has crossed the divide. It appeals to anglers and non-anglers alike. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, he talks about his new book: How to Think Like a Fish.
Jeremy’s website is JeremyWade.co.uk
To buy his book, visit https://amzn.to/2KUyp25
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Barrister and former BASC chairman Peter Glenser QC is one of the best people to end up next to on a shoot lunch. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, Peter regales with tales from the front line of guns and shooting jurisprudence.
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Orvis ambassador and angling guide Marina Gibson explains why she felt the need to launch the Northern Fishing School recently, based at Yorkshire’s Swinton Estate. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, she asks: can more be done to encourage newcomers to the sport?
For more from the Northern Fishing School go to NorthernFishingSchool.com
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Bibby Curtis lost her spaniel Amo at the Midland Game Fair. They were joyfully reunited earlier this year. She tells her story at the Game Fair Theatre 2019. As dogs are stolen and then ransomed across the British countryside, what should the police do about it and how can we protect our dogs and ourselves? Steve Jenkinson from the Kennel Club is also on hand to explain the law, and how it can be changed.
Bibby used Doglost to find Amo. Visit DogLost.co.uk
For more from the KC, go to TheKennelClub.org.uk
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What does FACE do? Hunters’ representation in Europe has a new head, David Scallan. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, he spells out his mission. He talks about the problems facing shooting and hunting sports in the European Parliament and the European Commission, and what he is doing about them.
Visit FACE.eu
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Hunting and shooting usually wins in Parliament, it mostly wins among the civil service, but it is being torn apart in TV studios. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports Jim Barrington discusses the case for and against countrysports.
Jim is now a consultant for the Countryside Alliance Countryside-Alliance.org
Former TV presenter, national newspaper columnist and founder of the Countryside Restoration Trust Robin Page does not tolerate fools or antis. At the Game Fair Theatre 2019, he explains what’s wrong with the modern countryside and how his way is the right way to put it right.
For more about the CRT, visit CountrysideRestorationTrust.com
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What will the 2019 grouseshooting season be like? In this short, sharp podcast, Duncan Thomas reveals the prospects for grouse to Charlie Jacoby on stage at the 2019 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at Hatfield House.
Duncan Thomas is northern regional director for BASC.
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Your Scottish sporting week should be matched with a great gun. THE place to shop for them is the Gleneagles gun auction in Perthshire. Gun auctioneer Gavin Gardner talks about guns coming up in his 26 August 2019 sale at Gleneagles Hotel, including Edward Sutton’s Stephen Grant pinfire, a Holland & Holland stalking rifle in .240 Apex, and a David McKay Brown single-trigger over-and-under 12-bore. Plus he offers advice on what makes a great sporting gun, and what to look for at auction today. Gavin is talking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at Hatfield House in July 2019.
Gavin Gardiner’s sale of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns is at Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire, on Monday 26 August 2019, starting at 5pm. Visit GavinGardiner.com
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Jay Tiernan is a militant vegan, who stamps on badger traps and condones the cutting of wire to release pheasants from game farms. The face of the anti-badger cull movement and press officer for the Animal Liberation Front, he argues his case with Charlie Jacoby.
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It's the battle for who runs the countryside: Dr Mark Avery is part of the Wild Justice group which successfully stopped the general licences, he campaigns against gamekeepers whom, he claims, kill hen harriers, and he wants the countryside rewilded. He argues his points with Charlie Jacoby, who represents gameshooters, pest controllers and the managed environment.
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David Wright talks about his time up in the highlands with Niall Rowantree and the ways the Scottish government are trying to reduce the amount of lamb attacks from the sea eagles. Niall is the man behind our successful series A Year in the Life of Red Deer, and he and David are now filming The Scottish Sporting Year, a new series that covers all kind of wildlife management in Scotland and takes Niall as far as New Zealand.
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Tim Pilbeam's Rucksack & Rifle series sees him travel all over the world. David Wright and Tim Pilbeam talk about their experiences wandering the world with firearms and cameras. Who would have thought it was so difficult to get guns on a plane?
The hours spent in airports wondering, wandering and hoping, Tim now sees the traveling as a part of the whole hunting adventure.
If you are thinking of traveling with firearms then take a listen you might get some useful tips. Like padlock your Tupperware! yep…
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Charlie Jacoby chairs a panel at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2018 on driven pheasant and grouse shooting. On the panel are:
- Patrick Galbraith, editor, Shooting Times
- Simon Hart MP
- Mark Osborne, sporting agent and gunmaker, William Powell
- Sir Jim Paice, chairman, GWCT
Questions and clarifications from the audience come from:
- Tim Bonner, Countryside Alliance
- Keith Cowieson, Songbird Survival
- Christopher Graffius, BASC
- Nick Kester, British Falconry Club
- Jerome Starkey, countryside correspondent, The Times
- Ludwig Willnegger, FACE
Pheasant photograph by kind permission of Alan Ward, https://www.countryfieldimages.co.uk
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Niall Rowantree is the subject of episode 3 of the Fieldsports Podcast. Niall is the man behind our successful series A Year in the Life of Red Deer, and he and David are now filming The Scottish Sporting Year, a new series that covers all kind of wildlife management in Scotland and takes Niall as far as New Zealand.
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Let's go behind the scenes at Fieldsports Channel with episode 2 of the Fieldsports Podcast (here brought to life on YouTube with a little light filming).
▶ Charlie talks about his career as almost being a trained mime.
▶ David reveals his connection with a sticky mess in the back of an ice-cream truck and the time Julie Walters squeezing his mangos lead to eyebrow impotency.
▶ Andy Crow explains his thinking behind setting up his shooting hides and learning the patterns of how the pigeons think and behave. He answers viewer questions and how it all began with Fieldsports Channel, including how to shoot birds for the camera.
Plus there is Mrs Crow, Croatia's friendliest sporting agent Tomo Svetic, Fieldsports Channel cameraman Andy Chastney and your host for this podcast, Aaron Jones. We are all shooting the breeze, relaxing at the end of a hard day's shooting at the Blaser/Mauser/Sauer/Minox Skills day at Braces of Bristol.
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How did Fieldsports begin? How did talented ITV News Producer David Wright end up on the Fieldsports News Stump? And what gives him the drive to film from behind the shoulders of great hunters and shooters, and tell such entertaining and informative stories? The answers are here: nearly 40 minutes of chat with the man known to most as 'David from the News Stump'. He unfolds his tale to Fieldsports Channel Podcast host Aaron Jones.
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