Fieldsports Channel
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.
Simon Whitehead has been a 'celebrity ferreter' all of his working life. He talks about the job to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. ▶ Find Simon on Instagram, on YouTube or on his webpage ▶ For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast107
Dick and Angel Strawbridge from the Escape To The Chateau TV series head to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 to talk about their lives with Charlie Jacoby. Click here for more ways to listen to this podcast.
The star of River Monsters, Jeremy Wade, joins Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. This podcast is an amalgamation of two interviews in the theatre, where he talks about the series that made hinm famous, and what projects he plans to do next. For more from Jeremy, go to JeremyWade.co.uk For more ways to listen to this, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast104
Douglas Cockcroft went from hunting guide to founder of South Africa's most impressive taxidermy business, Splitting Image Taxidermy, based in Port Elizabeth and operating all over southern Africa. He tells his story. For more about Splitting Image Taxidermy, visit SplittingImageTaxidermy.co.za Thanks to Safari Club International's Life Hunter Advocate Society for supporting this film. Visit SafariClub.org
Deerstalker and wildlife manager Niall Rowantree talks to deer biologist Professor Rory Putman about the remarkable sika deer, as part of our filming of the Year in the Life of Sika. Rory explains why sika are so successful when reds struggle, how their range is increasing and why they are so difficult, in fact now impossible, to get on top of. They discuss hybridisation, rewilding, and the idea of introducing wolves and lynx to control deer, which Rory regards as fantasy. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast102 For A Year in the Life of Sika, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/yearinthelifeofsika This series is supported by Blaser, Hornady and HIKMicro
Andrew Hoodless of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is a woodcock specialist. He explains the difference between migratory birds, resident breeding birds, and why they are not actually that endangered at all – despite what the anti-shooters like to claim. Andrew talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast100
Mike Labuschagne has been working as a wildlife ranger in Malawi for more than 30 years. He used to have funding from the US-based animal rights organisation IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to help the elephants of Kasungu. Now he believes that IFAW should be charged with the murder of local people for wilfully releasing 263 elephants into the area, which can't support them. For more ways to listen to this and an accompanying article, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast99 IFAW's press release about the Kasungu elephant relocation There is some controversy about how IFAW made its statement, as detailed on South Africa's Daily Maverick news website
The Flyfishers' Club has been men-only since its foundation in 1884. A chance remark by Marina Gibson at the Hay Festival sparked a media storm that has forced club members to vote on whether to allow women members. Marina explains to Charlie Jacoby and an audience at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 the reasons she is right. Click here for more about Marina For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast98
What has the Westminster government got in store for gamebirds and shooting? The news from the GWCT is good – but their top staff warn us not to be complacent. Sir Jim Paice and Roger Draycott from the GWCT talk to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024 Click here for more ways to listen to this.
Speaking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game fair Theatre, Digby Taylor from GunsOnPegs.com announces his new research. It's the most accurate predictor of prices for gameshooting around. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast96
When the police took the guns from Chris Sharp after Chris was the victim of an assault, he turned to lawyers for help. One of them, Peter Glenser KC, joins Chris on stage at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie what happened, and where he has got to now with his case. Click here for more ways to listen to this. For more on this story, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/chrissharpgungrab
Shadow DEFRA minister Steve Barclay says Daniel Zeichner should 'get off the fence' and announce Labour's plans for the countryside. Plus he warns that even though the DEFRA minister is broadly pro-shooting, he can't do much to stop Labour bringing in anti-hunting and shooting legislation. Barclay was talking to Fieldsports Channel's Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Game Fair. Click here for more ways to listen to this
Ed Swales and Ronan Brown from Hunting Kind join Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2024 to explain how hunting could qualify for protection under human rights legislation, with hunters classified as a 'protected minority'. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast93
With a new government in power in Westminster, three people with a stake in the future of fieldsports and the countryside come together to talk to Charlie about what Labour could or even will do – to trail hunting, trophy imports, shooting sports and farming. Speaking at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the end of July 2024 are Countryside Alliance chief executive Tim Bonner, farmer and former MP Neil Parish, who used to chair the EFRA committee at Westminster, and first up is Christopher Graffius, who runs communications and public affairs at BASC. Click here for more ways to listen to this
Former MP Neil Parish looks at the likely outcomes from the 2024 UK general election, including which MPs will make it, which won't, what to expect from a Labour government (if it wins), and what you can do to limit the damage. For Neil's own podcast, go to https://shows.acast.com/we-can-do-both-pod For more ways to listen to this, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast91
Podcast this week is from the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, back in July 2024. It's an interview with David Lyons, an angler who suffered from depression and successfully persuaded the NHS to prescribe him fishing. He runs the charity Tackling Minds, which takes fellow-sufferers fishing.
It's the job that many of us put off, sometimes for weeks, a few for months, a handful for several seasons. John Spary and Joe Hocking are gunsmiths: the ones who get to clean, check, repair and occasionally pick up the pieces of our guns. They explain what goes into a gun service, plus how to treat your gun throughout the year in order to reduce your service bill. John and Joe run Duchy Gunsmith in Cornwall. Visit DuchyGunsmith.co.uk For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast90 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham
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, and how he damaged both animal welfare and rural communities. Click here to buy the book For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast89 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham
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 show, held at the NEC, Birmingham ▶ Sign up for our weekly email newsletter ▶ Take part in nature. Join the Fieldsports Nation
Nick Doherty and Laura Saunsbury are the authors of the definitive book on British gun laws. The Firearms Law Handbook provides useful info for shooters, police firearms licensing officers, shops and gun ranges. The couple works in the UK during the week and live near Toulouse. Charlie Jacoby goes to meet them at their home in France to record a short, sharp podcast (before the rain starts). The Firearms Law Handbook on Amazon For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast87 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham ▶ Sign up for our weekly email newsletter ▶ Take part in nature. Join the Fieldsports Nation