FieldsportsChannel's Podcast

Future of the upland gamekeeper

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Waterloo Cup slipper

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 A...

How GBNews reports on shooting

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Thea...

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

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Is the Proficient Deer Stalking Certificate 1 for you?

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 St...

BASC on the lead shot ban

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Bell and Terry Behan from BASC join Nick Levett-Scrivener from non-lead cartridge importer Shooting Star to discuss the Westminster government's p...

Writer and critic Patrick Galbraith

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2025, two months before he takes up hi...

Women in Westminster

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Science and trophy hunting

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 scient...

Rewilder works with gamekeeper

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Benedict Macdonald is the author of Rebirding and founder and director of Restore. He is working with Charles Whitbread's Southill Estate in Bedfordsh...

Neil Parish at the 2025 Game Fair

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The future of the GWCT

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner at the 2025 Game Fair

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, DEFRA minister Daniel Zeichner defends the British government's record on the country...

Greg Smith MP at the 2025 Game Fair

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Robbie Moore MP at the 2025 Game Fair

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Chr...

Sir Geoffrey Clifton Brown MP at the 2025 Game Fair

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

James Martin, part 2, with Merlin Griffiths

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

James Martin, part 1

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, whe...

Sika deer are here to stay: Rory Putman and Niall Rowantree

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Rory Putman and deer expert Niall Rowantree discuss Scotland's next big deer problem: sika. The Scottish government has successfully wiped o...

How did animal rights extremists evolve?

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie's dad, Martin Jacoby, explains how the hunter-gatherers of 200,000 years ago slowly evolved into both sport hunters and animal rights activist...

Gamekeepers Welfare Trust

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Thermal drone deer counting

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

The story of the rabbit – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 110

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 dra...

Hunting Ethics by Nick Fox

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 po...

Teresa Dent CBE from the GWCT

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Country Food Trust

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 maj...

Value of shooting

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Char...

Eat Wild's Louisa Clutterbuck

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Greg Smith MP

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 aft...

Ferreter Simon Whitehead

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Thea...

Escape To The Chateau's Dick and Angel

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cha...

Jeremy Wade

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Splitting Image Taxidermy's story

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa's most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port El...

Future of deer with Niall Rowantree and Prof Rory Putman

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Deerstalker and wildlife manager Niall Rowantree talks to deer biologist Professor Rory Putman about the remarkable sika deer, as part of our filming ...

Woodcock

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breed...

How IFAW kills people with elephants

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 organ...

Marina Gibson wins Flyfishers' Club men-only debate

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Will Labour ban gamebird release?

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

2024-2025 gameshooting prices and prospects

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The man who beat the police

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Shadow DEFRA minister tells Zeichner 'get off the fence'

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shadow DEFRA minister Steve Barclay says Daniel Zeichner should 'get off the fence' and announce Labour's plans for the countryside. Plus he warns tha...

Hunters are a 'protected minority'

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 qualif...

What to expect from the Labour government

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cha...

Election '24 with Neil Parish

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 fr...

How to get fishing on the NHS

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Podcast this week is from the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, back in July 2024. It's an interview with David Lyons, an angler who suffered from depre...

Servicing your gun: how the pros do it

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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: ...

How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Gareth Wyn Jones – angry farmer

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 202...

The Firearms Law Handbook

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Doherty and Laura Saunsbury are the authors of the definitive book on British gun laws. The Firearms Law Handbook provides useful info for shoote...

Enemies of shooting and the countryside – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 86

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

Jeremy Wade from River Monsters

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, hi...

Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Formula One's Ross Brawn on clayshooting

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Fai...

Ferreting and mental health

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Baby rhino update, from Rockwood

04 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vet...

Are we in danger of wiping our deer?

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Gam...

Shooting Girl with an Afro

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Firearms licensing: the police view

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

GL43: what went wrong?

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, I...

James Wallace of River Action

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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.   Fo...

Big bag days – yes or no? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 75

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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. Th...

Daniel Zeichner MP comes round to shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 74

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Greg Smith MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 73

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 72

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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.  ...

India's wildlife conflict problem – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 71

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 tran...

How to square veganism with hunting

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Grouse shooter vs RSPB – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 69

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 Th...

Gareth Wyn Jones – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 68

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 coun...

Caroline Bedell on the value of shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 67

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, ...

The Westminster Eight – 18 years on

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Hounds face a bleak future in Scotland and Northern Ireland

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Grouse shooting prospects for 2022 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 64

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A panel of experts discuss grouse prospects for the 2022 season, plus the political threats facing grouseshooting. They are Mark Osborne from William ...

GunsOnPegs' predictions for the 2022 shooting season – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 63

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The Metropolitan Police's head of firearms licensing – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 62

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 cert...

Labour's Daniel Zeichner on countrysports – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 61

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shadow food, farming and fisheries minister and Labour MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner makes the case for a Labour government running the countryside...

Nigel Farage on big game fishing and more – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 60

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 dev...

Owl boxes with an expert – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 59

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 turn farm buildings into holiday lets – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 58

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion on what makes the perfect holiday letting business with Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre: Andrew Fallows of Carter Jo...

The big lead shot ban debate – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 57

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

How to set up a venison business – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 56

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services used the covid lockdowns to get his deerstalking and venison supply businesses underway. He is now supplying loca...

The story behind John Macnab – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 55

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 st...

Gamekeepers brave Packham's anti-grouse conference – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 54

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 lis...

Hunting apps: the future – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 53

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Vegans at the Game Fair – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 52

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 popul...

Wild meat goes mainstream – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 51

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

The Mightiest Mahseer – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 49

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There's something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world - and especially th...

Bill Harriman on the history of the bayonet – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 48

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 disc...

Ian Coghill and why the UK's Moorland Matters – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 47

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 mo...

How are your foxes doing, Tony Blair? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 46

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 num...

Daniel Zeichner MP, shadow environment secretary – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 45

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 Z...

Adam Henson – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 44

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Henson talks about Jeremy Clarkson, BBC Countryfile and the importance of game meat. Country Food Trust ambassador Adam and CFT chief executive T...

What it's like to shoot at the Olympics – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 43

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

How the French face the anti-hunting threat – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 42

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 dan...

Debunking the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting – Fieldsports Channel Podcast, episode 41

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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. Char...

Getting to know Cai ap Bryn – Fieldsports Channel Podcast, episode 40

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Charlie's dad – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 38

05 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 h...

Scotland's hare ban madness – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 37

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. Th...

What's bothering the world of shooting? - FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 36

30 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

What does the British Game Alliance do? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 35

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 fut...

How teenagers get shooting permissions - FieldsportsChannel Podcast 34

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 p...