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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 FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast128 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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast126

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

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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast119

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. Click here for more ways to listen to this podcast.

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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast117

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 For more ways of listening to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast116

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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast115

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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast106

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 For more ways to listen to this, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast110

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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast114 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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast113 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. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast112 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 For more ways to listen to this podcast go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast111