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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.

  • 13 minutes 21 seconds
    Future of the upland gamekeeper

    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

    For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast135

    17 December 2025, 3:25 pm
  • 9 minutes 49 seconds
    Waterloo Cup slipper

    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

    For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast134

    19 November 2025, 9:26 am
  • 14 minutes 49 seconds
    How GBNews reports on shooting

    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.

    12 November 2025, 4:47 pm
  • 25 minutes 35 seconds
    Niall Rowantree: what is 'trophy hunting' in the UK? – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 132

    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

    5 November 2025, 4:38 pm
  • 16 minutes 35 seconds
    Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you?

    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

    For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast131

    22 October 2025, 1:05 pm
  • 27 minutes 58 seconds
    BASC on the lead shot ban

    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

    8 October 2025, 1:44 pm
  • 19 minutes 26 seconds
    Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith

    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 FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast129

    For Patrick's book, Uncommon Ground, visit Amzn.to/42OF6tU

    For more from Patrick, visit Telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pa-pe/patrick-galbraith/

    30 September 2025, 4:02 pm
  • 20 minutes 3 seconds
    Women in Westminster

    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 FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast128

    For more from Iona, visit WomenWhoWorkinFieldsports.co.uk

    For Claire, go to BASC.org.uk/women-in-shooting

    10 September 2025, 10:31 am
  • 20 minutes 11 seconds
    Science and trophy hunting

    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

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

    2 September 2025, 8:49 am
  • 21 minutes 5 seconds
    Rewilder works with gamekeeper

    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

    For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast126

    5 August 2025, 11:22 pm
  • 38 minutes 22 seconds
    Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair

    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.

    30 July 2025, 4:25 pm
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