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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.

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S1 · E157
Wednesday · 20 min
Schöffel Countryside Awards 2026 – FieldsportsChannel Podcast, episode 157
The Schöffel Countryside Awards on 9 November 2026 in London are clothing company Schöffel's contribution to the national debate about the future of rural Britain. Marcus Jansen from Schöffel and Tim Furbank from OakBank Game & Conservation talk about what makes them great. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast157 For more, visit SchoffelcCountry.com/pages/countryside-awards
S1 · E156
October 28 · 13 min
Where do all the snipe go?
Where do all the snipe go? GWCT wetlands ecologist Bleddyn Thomas comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2026 to reveal the first findings from a pioneering research project which discovers where our wintering snipe go to breed, tracking migration routes to places as far away as Russia, Scandinavia and Iceland. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast156 For more, visit https://www.gwct.org.uk/news/news/2026/may/snipe-on-the-move/ or watch the GWCT's film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHZ_eVIFWM
S1 · E155
October 21 · 13 min
Trophy hunting filmmaker Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts is an environmental journalist and biologist with 15 years' experience in conservation, known for the Netflix documentary All the Sharks and co-hosting a podcast with Steve Backshall. She comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about her five-year documentary The Hunt: Into the Grey and why investigating the global trophy hunting debate challenged her own views, revealing a far more complex story than the black-and-white narrative many of us have been led to believe. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast155 Trailer for The Hunt: Into the Grey on YouTube
S1 · E154
October 14 · 15 min
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about the rural news agenda - what makes the front pages and what's not even a crossword clue these days. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast154 Find Patrick on Scribehound Scribehound.com/author/patrick-galbraith
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September 30 · 15 min
How the BBC got it wrong with pheasants
The BBC's scriptwriters gave Sir David Attenborough duff information on pheasants. The BBC's 2026 wildlife series Secret Garden claimed pheasants eat vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day, with no evidence to back it up. The reverse is true. Best-practice gamebird releasing achieves a biodiversity gain, which is the subject of Game for Nature, a new report by GWCT. CEO Nick von Westenholz and director of advisory Roger Draycott discuss its findings with Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. For more ways to listen, go to https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast153 For more about the report, visit https://www.gwct.org.uk/news/news/2026/september/new-report-reveals-benefits-to-biodiversity-of-gamebird-releasing/
S1 · E152
September 16 · 15 min
How one council voted for hunting
Warwickshire county councillor Scott Cameron (Restore Britain) successfully introduced, saw off opposition from the antis and had passed a motion supporting gamekeepers and farmers in the county. He came to the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to explain to Charlie how he did it. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast152 For Scott, visit X.com/CllrScottC
S1 · E151
September 9 · 18 min
How to fend off DEFRA
Three more years. The Labour Government, with its massive majority, has until August 2029 to rebuild its relationship with the British countryside. Trailhunting bans, family farm tax, and Islington animal rights agends: we look at what it is likely to do and what we can do to fight back. Panel is Dr Marnie Lovejoy from BASC, who specialises in holding the government to account, and former DEFRA minister Sir Mark Spencer from Aim to Sustain. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast151 For BASC, visit BASC.org.uk
S1 · E150
September 9 · 12 min
Inside story: BASC's legal victory against Natural England
BASC's top team discuss their recent High Court victory against Natural England and how their Fighting Fund can lead the battle for shooting. Chief executive Ian Bell and chairman Eoghan Cameron come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2026 to say what a battle it was. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast150 For BASC, visit BASC.org.uk
September 2 · 17 min
How Burnham rebuilds his relations with the countryside
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP spells out how PM Andy Burnham should approach his dealings with the British countryside. He and BASC lobbyist Orlando Wind-Cowie are speaking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July. It's the inaugural Christopher Graffius memorial debate, in memory of Christopher, who was in charge of communications and public affairs at BASC for many years and who died earlier in 2026. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast149 For more about Christopher Graffius, visit BASC.org.uk/basc-honours-christopher-graffius-game-fair/
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August 19 · 26 min
What will Burnham do to the English countryside?
Tim Bonner from the Countryside Alliance sets out his hopes and fears for the next three years of Labour rule over the English countryside. After the chaos of the Starmer premiership, what does rural England have to loo forward to? He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. Click here for more ways to listen Click here for the Countryside Alliance
S1 · E147
August 5 · 14 min
2026 grouse prospects
With the Gloirus Twelftth just around the corner, the GWCT gives its verdict on what the 2026 grouse-shooting season will be like. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, GWCT director of Scotland Nick Hesford, senior advisor Scotland Felix Meister and upland ecologist Leah Cloonan talk about that plus the GWCT's upland flagship Maternal Grouse project. Red grouse have declined by 33% in recent years. With some moors producing consistent bags and others not shooting for several years, GWCT's research team has set out to discover why. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast147 For the GWCT, visit GWCT.org.uk
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July 29 · 15 min
Peak District wildfire fight
Richard Bailey from the Peak District Moorland Group calls the wildfires burning across Derbyshire a 'fire wave'. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about what the Westminster government can do about it. Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound Find the Peak District Moorland Group on Facebook
S1 · E145
July 29 · 9 min
Uplands' bureaucratic fightback against DEFRA
Jo Pearson's job at the Moorland Association is to help upland estates fill out forms. These forms are applications for controlled burning licences from Natural England – and Jo knows that, if she fills out enough forms, DEFRA may get to hear about it, and may realise what a pointless exercise 'controlled burning' forms are. She speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound Visit MoorlandAssociation.org
S1 · E144
July 29 · 15 min
Westminster wildfire policy madness
Nobody is in charge of preventing wildfires. That's the charge Andrew Gilruth of the Moorland Association levels against the Westminster government. Successive government failings mean the fires we see raging in the UK's uplands can be stopped months in advance, if only there were the political will. He speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. Read and listen to the full story on Scribehound Visit MoorlandAssociation.org
S1 · E143
July 29 · 19 min
Shadow DEFRA secretary supports hunting and shooting
Victoria Atkins MP and her front bench team come to the 2026 Game Fair to show Conservative support for shooting and hunting. The shadow DEFRA secretary speaks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre about where the Labour government is going wrong – and how the Tories made mistakes, too. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast143
S1 · E142
May 20 · 17 min
Wildlife filmmaker David Beach
David Beach is a wildlife filmmaker. He comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2025 to talk about the difficulties that hunting tourism has presenting its case as the best way for funding conservation worldwide.
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May 13 · 15 min
How to run a high-tech shoot
Counting wildlife stops the government banning shooting. Roger Draycott from the GWCT, Jodie Case from Perdix Wildlife Supplies and Schöffel Working Conservationist Award-winning gamekeeper Rupert Brewer from the Bisterne estate explain how it works for them, and how the PerdixPro system works. Click here for more about PerdixPro Here for the GWCT And here for the Bisterne estate
S1 · E140
April 29 · 26 min
Nigel 'Mr Frostbite' Vardy re-learns to shoot
Nigel Vardy lost his fingers and his nose in an accident on Mt McKinley in 1999. Since then, he has refound his love of shooting – but re-learning to shoot has been a challenge. He tells his story. For more from Nigel, visit MrFrostbite.com For more ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast140
S1 · E139
April 8 · 21 min
Bill Blacker on the British gun trade
Doyen of the barrellers Bill Blacker is part of the beating heart of the British gun trade. He joines Charlie on the stage at the Carter Jones Game Fair Theatre to discuss his work and wider issues, such as how to cope with the forthcoming UK restrictions on lead shot. Visit BillBlacker.com
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March 24 · 16 min
Game Fair deerstalkers
Every year, José Souto and Paul Childerley bring a roe carcase to the Game Fair and show how they break it down. They come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie about how and why, plus they launch into the lead ammo debate and how supermarkets sell venison. Find José on Instagram and click here for Paul's website

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