FieldsportsChannel's Podcast
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.
Episodes
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
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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
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.
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.
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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
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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
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.
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For Patrick's book, Uncommon Ground, visit Amzn.to/42OF6tU
For more from Patrick, visit Telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pa-pe/p...
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.
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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
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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 ...
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.
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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.
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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
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
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