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Greg Smith MP

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Release Date: 01/22/2025

Waterloo Cup slipper show art Waterloo Cup slipper

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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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit

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How GBNews reports on shooting show art How GBNews reports on shooting

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News channel 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.

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Niall Rowantree: what is 'trophy hunting' in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132 show art Niall Rowantree: what is 'trophy hunting' in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132

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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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit https://fieldportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast132

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Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you? show art Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you?

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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 , priced at £395  For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit

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BASC on the lead shot ban show art BASC on the lead shot ban

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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. for the latest from BASC on non-lead ammo. For Shooting Star, go to

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Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith show art Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith

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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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to For Patrick's book, Uncommon Ground, visit For more from Patrick, visit  

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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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to For more from Iona, visit For Claire, go to  

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Science and trophy hunting show art Science and trophy hunting

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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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast126

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Benedict Macdonald is the author of 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 For the Southill Estate, visit For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit

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Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair show art Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair

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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. for Neil’s own podcast.

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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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