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UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation, the Moorland Association and the Gun Trade Association are among those involved in the survey. They are calling on shooters to take part. The independent research specialists, Cognisense, w...

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 was ignoring the largest ever peacetime march, more than 400,000 people, who marched on Westminster in 2002 protesting against the same law. Blair's ban, which came into force in 2005, has achieved the opposite of what blair hoped. It has damaged an...

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 from Hunting Kind explains the challenges facing hunting with hounds in Scotland and Northern Ireland. For more, go to Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast65

A panel of experts discuss grouse prospects for the 2022 season, plus the political threats facing grouseshooting. They are Mark Osborne from William Powell Sporting, Andrew Fallows from Carter Jonas and Adrian Blackmore from the Countryside Alliance.   For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast64

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 the UK, with bird flu hitting bird imports, and hard on the heels of two years of lost bookings because of covid. Chris explains the numbers to Charlie. For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast63  

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 certificates to shooters who need them for shotgun and firearm certificates, explain to Charlie what's going on with firearms licensing in the capital. For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast62

Shadow food, farming and fisheries minister and Labour MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner makes the case for a Labour government running the countryside and being a force for good for countrysports. It's an uphill task. He won't repeal Tony Blair's foxhunting ban but he says he and his Labour colleagues are happy to work with countryside organisations. He addresses the charge that Labour can't see b...

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 develop its own bluefin sport fishing business.  He explains the thrill of catching Britain's most significant big game fish, which you can now do in a limited number of boats out of Cornish ports, fishing tag-and-release. It's not just fishing. Nigel s...

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 make the ideal owl box, to attract owls to your garden, plus talks about her work researching owls.  For more, go to @OwlBoxInit and @JCaseNature Find out about the OBI on the GWCT website

A discussion on what makes the perfect holiday letting business with Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre: Andrew Fallows of Carter Jonas advises landowners and farmers on how to diversify – and the rediscovery of UK holidays by locked-down Brits means he has never been business, Meanwhile, Ashley Vellacott turned his Somerset farm into a holiday accommodation enterprise, with his...

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 and old lead purist Robert Bucknall, and Andrew Gilruth from the GWCT. Host is Charlie Jacoby. The four of them run through the lead shot issues, ask why it has to go, and how much could the shooting organisations have handled the phase-out better? Re...

Tom Davies of Dartmoor Deer Services used the covid lockdowns to get his deerstalking and venison supply businesses underway. He is now supplying local shops, restaurants and has a popular venison box scheme underway, plus he provides butchery courses and guided stalking.   For more from Tom, visit DartmoorDeerServices.com Read this story in full: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast56

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 stag on one day on an estate. John Buchan's granddaughter Ursula Buchan comes to the Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie Jacoby the novel's back story, and a little of the life of her famous forebear. Buy the paperback on Amazon   Buy Ursula Buchan's bio...

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 listed to Packham and the RSPB trot out lies about grousemoors. However, they came away convinced that those of us on the side of nature can win this battle, as long as we keep pushing the science behind shooting and conservation.   Click here for more...

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 the rest of the world as the MyHunt app, who wants to use the power of shooters' mobile phones to put us front and centre in the conservation debate. Read this story in full via our news pages: Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast53

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 popular Into The Wild Podcast IntoTheWild.podbean.com Katie Hargreaves is a wildlife artist KatieHargreavesArt.com Paul Childerley is a hunting guide (and so much more) Instagram.com/paulchilderley Charlie Jacoby is host of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Thea...

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 of shooting your own supper. At the Scottish Game Fair 2021, Fife chef Chris Trotter brought together Mark Bush from local food marketing group Great Perthshire, who also runs Summer Harvest Oils, professional forager Amy Rankine from Hipsters & Hobos...

There's something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world - and especially the UK. Now, Norfolk angler Stephen Harper has produced The Mightiest Mahseer . Angling Trust ambassador Martin Salter is also a mahseer angler. He interviews Stephen about the fish, records, angling books, snakes and scorpions.  Buy the book here   Re...

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 discusses it with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the Game Fair, Ragley Hall, July 2021.  Buy the book from Amazon Read this story in full here

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 moorland is so important to the UK, how gamekeepers have got it right when it comes to moorland management, and how the 'conservation industry' (the organisations just mentioned) have got it so, so wrong. To buy Ian's book, visit Fieldsports.shop/produ...

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 numbers down 40%. Former head of the League Against Cruel Sports Jim Barrington and journalist Richard Negus want to know if Blair was right or wrong. Plus they want to know what the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, thinks he is doing by introduci...

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 Zeichner MP, and he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre tent. It's all part of Labour's Rural England Policy Review. Take part in Labour's Rural England Policy Review Click here for Henry Dimbleby's National Food Strategy Thanks to BASC for inv...

Adam Henson talks about Jeremy Clarkson, BBC Countryfile and the importance of game meat. Country Food Trust ambassador Adam and CFT chief executive Tim Woodward are on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre for an interview by Charlie Jacoby. For the Country Food Trust, visit TheCountryFoodTrust.org

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 Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2021, they explain what it's like to go into an Olympics as a shooter. However, their original sport, double trap, no longer exists at the Olympics. Peter criticises the way the International Shooting Sports Federation handled...

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 dangerous and a lot more impassioned. How do you face this threat in the media? Step forward Richard sur Terre, a YouTube channel that has become one of the major voices in the fight against anti-hunters in France. In this interview, Richard explains wh...