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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.

Marina Gibson wins Flyfishers’ Club men-only debate 09/18/2024

Marina Gibson wins Flyfishers’ Club men-only debate 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. for more about Marina For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/33107202

Will Labour ban gamebird release? 09/11/2024

Will Labour ban gamebird release? What has the Westminster government got in store for gamebirds and shooting? The news from the 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 for more ways to listen to this. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/33009682

2024-2025 gameshooting prices and prospects 09/04/2024

2024-2025 gameshooting prices and prospects 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. For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/32893177

The man who beat the police 08/28/2024

The man who beat the police 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. for more ways to listen to this. For more on this story, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/32777922

Shadow DEFRA minister tells Zeichner ‘get off the fence’ 08/14/2024

Shadow DEFRA minister tells Zeichner ‘get off the fence’ 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. for more ways to listen to this /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/32575962

Hunters are a ‘protected minority’ 08/07/2024

Hunters are a ‘protected minority’ 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’. For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/32482707

What to expect from the Labour government 07/31/2024

What to expect from the Labour government 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 chief executive Tim Bonner, farmer and former MP , who used to chair the EFRA committee at Westminster, and first up is Christopher Graffius, who runs communications and public affairs at . for more ways to listen to this /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/32366967

Election '24 with Neil Parish 05/29/2024

Election '24 with Neil Parish 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/31515527

Servicing your gun: how the pros do it 03/20/2024

Servicing your gun: how the pros do it 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/30462053

How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting 01/05/2024

How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting 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. to buy the book For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/29355088

Gareth Wyn Jones – angry farmer 12/06/2023

Gareth Wyn Jones – angry farmer 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham ▶ for our weekly email newsletter ▶ Take part in nature. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28939853

The Firearms Law Handbook 11/29/2023

The Firearms Law Handbook 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham ▶ for our weekly email newsletter ▶ Take part in nature. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28840763

Enemies of shooting and the countryside – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 86 11/22/2023

Enemies of shooting and the countryside – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 86 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. for Moorland Matters, £25 For more ways to listen to this, This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham for our weekly email newsletter Take part in nature. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28755403

Jeremy Wade from River Monsters 11/01/2023

Jeremy Wade from River Monsters 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28488983

Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting 10/25/2023

Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting 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. For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28421267

Formula One’s Ross Brawn on clayshooting 10/18/2023

Formula One’s Ross Brawn on clayshooting 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. for more ways to listen to this This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK's largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28357004

Ferreting and mental health 10/11/2023

Ferreting and mental health 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28285415

Baby rhino update, from Rockwood 10/04/2023

Baby rhino update, from Rockwood 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 For more ways to listen to this, visit This podcast is brought to you by the , the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/28224830

Are we in danger of wiping our deer? 09/13/2023

Are we in danger of wiping our deer? 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. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27858585

Shooting Girl with an Afro 09/06/2023

Shooting Girl with an Afro 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 For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27858576

Firearms licensing: the police view 09/06/2023

Firearms licensing: the police view 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. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27850518

GL43: what went wrong? 08/25/2023

GL43: what went wrong? 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. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27849768

James Wallace of River Action 08/16/2023

James Wallace of River Action 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/ /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27771618

Big bag days – yes or no? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 75 08/09/2023

Big bag days – yes or no? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 75 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. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27704781

Daniel Zeichner MP comes round to shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 74 08/02/2023

Daniel Zeichner MP comes round to shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 74 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). For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27638730

Greg Smith MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 73 08/02/2023

Greg Smith MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 73 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. For more ways to listen to this, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27638715

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 72 08/02/2023

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 72 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. For more ways to listen to this, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast72 /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/27638694

India's wildlife conflict problem – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 71 05/10/2023

India's wildlife conflict problem – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 71 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. For more on this story, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/26804877

How to square veganism with hunting 03/08/2023

How to square veganism with hunting 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. For more ways to listen to this, visit For more from Katie, visit /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/26167125

Grouse shooter vs RSPB – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 69 11/16/2022

Grouse shooter vs RSPB – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 69 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. /episode/index/show/fieldsportschannel/id/25038267

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