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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

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 Game. She talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. (And she had the baby, a boy called Jasper). For more, go to Eat Wild's: WebsiteInstagramFacebookX.com

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. To listen to the whole podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast108

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 Theatre 2024. ▶ Find Simon on Instagram, on YouTube or on his webpage ▶ For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast107

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

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 in the theatre, where he talks about the series that made hinm famous, and what projects he plans to do next. For more from Jeremy, go to JeremyWade.co.uk For more ways to listen to this, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast104

Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa's most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port Elizabeth and operating all over southern Africa. He tells his story. For more about Splitting Image Taxidermy, visit SplittingImageTaxidermy.co.za Thanks to Safari Club International's Life Hunter Advocate Society for supporting this film. Visit SafariClub.org

Deerstalker and wildlife manager Niall Rowantree talks to deer biologist Professor Rory Putman about the remarkable sika deer, as part of our filming of the Year in the Life of Sika. Rory explains why sika are so successful when reds struggle, how their range is increasing and why they are so difficult, in fact now impossible, to get on top of. They discuss hybridisation, rewilding, and the idea of introducing wolves and lynx to control deer, which Rory regards as fantasy. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast102 For A Year in the Life of Sika, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/yearinthelifeofsika This series is supported by Blaser, Hornady and HIKMicro

Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breeding birds, and why they are not actually that endangered at all – despite what the anti-shooters like to claim. Andrew talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast100

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 organisation IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to help the elephants of Kasungu. Now he believes that IFAW should be charged with the murder of local people for wilfully releasing 263 elephants into the area, which can’t support them. https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast99 press release Daily Maverick news website

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. Click here for more about Marina For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast98