How Tony Blair got it wrong on foxhunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 89
youtu.be/Y0EzFlbIMBc UK prime minister Tony Blair said that his 2004 Hunting Act would benefit foxes. Twenty years later, it turns out he was wrong. In a chat with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023, Jim Barrington, former head of the League Against Cruel Sports, spells out the mistakes that Blair made, […]
Gareth Wyn Jones – angry farmer – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 88
Gareth Wyn Jones says join the revolution – the food and farming revolution. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. Find Gareth on YouTube For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast88 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun […]
Enemies of shooting and the countryside – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 86
Charlie Jacoby is back in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre talking to Ian Coghill, who demolishes the RSPB’s People’s Plan for Nature, he explains the point of Aim to Sustain, which he chairs, and he spells out what the world of shooting should do to see off threats from the conservation industry. Buy Ian’s […]
Jeremy Wade from River Monsters – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 85
youtu.be/uTrOvmL3vyA Jeremy Wade from TV’s River Monsters makes two visits to the 2023 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. He talks to Charlie about his early life fishing, his favourite kinds of fishing and his definition of ‘sporting’ fishing. Click here for more clips from the series. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast85 […]
Why antis struggle to ban trophy hunting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 84
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_u_U8ybaY Tristan Breijer from the European hunting lobbying group FACE sets out the problems facing antis from Europe who want to ban hunting in African nation states. Â This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham Other ways to listen to our […]
Formula One’s Ross Brawn on clayshooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 83
Ross Brawn, managing director of one of today’s biggest spectator sports, Formula One, and a keen shooter, chatted with Charlie Jacoby in the Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. They talked about how to re-establish clayshooting to international greatness. This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK’s largest gun show, […]
Ferreting and mental health – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 82
Simon Whitehead is a ferreter not a rockstar – but he is a ferreter with a public. He has suffered from the pressure. His new book, Pugs & Drummers, discusses not just ferreting but how ferreting saved his life. He explains it to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. […]
Are we in danger of wiping out our deer? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 80
The enthusiasm of British politicians for massacring British deer is starting to worry deer managers. Five guests on the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in 2023 discuss the animal’s future in the UK. They are deer experts Niall Rowantree and Martin Edwards, Mark Russell from Carter Jonas, whose clients deal with deer […]
Shooting Girl with an Afro – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 79
youtu.be/hqSEUM4D4gw Pigeon shooter, game shot and deerstalker Nicole Moore comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023 to talk to Charlie Jacoby about her love of the countryside and shooting sports. She talks about what she gets judged for. Do you think it’s being black, being a woman or how she shoots? Find out […]
Firearms licensing: the police view – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 78
Three firearms licensing officers came to the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023 to make the case to Charlie Jacoby for how well they are doing. You may agree or you may disagree with them. They are Chris Downs from the Metropolitan Police, Adrian Davis from Warwickshire Constabulary and Paul […]
GL43: what went wrong? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast episode 77
DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty, Ian Bell and Dr Marnie Lovejoy on the stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2023. Between them, they explain what GL43 is, how the system of […]
James Wallace of River Action – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 76
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJv6KTS4Bxk James Wallace of River Action talks to Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about his pressure group’s work cleaning up British rivers.  For River Action, go to RiverActionUK.com Other ways to listen to our podcasts:
Big bag days – yes or no? – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 75
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30FXnWxGn8 It’s Shooting Times editor Patrick Galbraith versus sporting agent Mark Osborne in this one-hour debate at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2023. The GWCT’s Roger Draycott provides the voice of reason and host Charlie Jacoby tries to stop them from fighting about the topic on stage. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:​​​
DEFRA failure: GL43 and gamebird release
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa99-n1tJ30 The anger in the countryside is palpable. It came to a head at the 2023 Game Fair, when Tory MPs lined up to criticise DEFRA, not Labour. DEFRA secretary Thérèse Coffey didn’t even turn up (we replaced her with a cauliflower). Meanwhile, Labour environment spokesman Daniel Zeichner was surprisingly positive about shooting sports. Click […]
The 2023 Game Fair: home of the fieldsports fightback
youtu.be/4tpPephC0JM The Game Fair 2023 at Ragley Hall was a celebration of the best of British field sports and country life. More than 100,000 people attended the event in Warwickshire. It was three days of fun for shooters, families, friends and four-legged friends. But storm clouds are gathering for Fieldsports. The threats to the rural […]
Greg Smith MP criticises DEFRA – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 73
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEPtKuTD0V8 Greg Smith MP is horrified at the way DEFRA has handled crises such as rescinding GL43. He is at the 2023 Game Fair and lams into Natural England and sneaky civil servants with an anti-shooting agenda. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:​​
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP criticises DEFRA– FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 72
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv4pSqf-iCw Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP is our unofficial minister for shooting. At the 2023 Game Fair, he tells Charlie Jacoby how DEFRA is getting it wrong. Other ways to listen to our podcasts:​​
Daniel Zeichner MP comes round to shooting – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 74
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fhm7CCAh3Y Daniel Zeichner MP is shadow environment minister. He came to the Game Fair in 2021, 2022 and in 2023 he took to the stage at the Game Fair Theatre to explain Labour’s policies on shooting (no current need for regulation), trailhunting (he will do his best for it) and trophy imports and exports (nothing […]
