Grouse shooter vs RSPB – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 69
It’s Ian Coghill, ex chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, vs Duncan Orr-Ewing of the RSPB, slugging it out on the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre stage about whether the RSPB is failing birds, and whether grousemoors are good for them. Charlie Jacoby is moderator. Buy Ian’s book Moorland Matters on Amazon. Other […]
The Westminster Eight – 18 years on – FieldsportsChannel podcast, episode 66
youtu.be/jeHHVbF7C94 In September 2004, eight campaigners burst 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 […]
What’s ‘Hunting Kind’? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 65
youtu.be/0jq9OhE9AUM 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. More on this: Other ways to listen to our podcasts
Grouse shooting prospects for 2022 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nDMXdrYxo 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. They talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the 2022 Game Fair […]
GunsOnPegs’ predictions for the 2022 shooting season – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 63
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24FfmiiHgi4 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 talked to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter […]
The Metropolitan Police’s head of firearms licensing – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 62
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCT4_dvQQ4 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, explains to Charlie what’s going on with firearms licensing in the capital. Plus Daryn Hufton-Rees from Medcert talks about […]
Labour’s Daniel Zeichner on countrysports – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 61
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqR-kNYJk9s 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 […]
Nigel Farage on big game fishing and more – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 60
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg73ZsLmMgY 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 […]