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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 For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast117 

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 For more ways of listening to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast116

Ian Grindy from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust tells the story of the charity and explains why it is needed more than ever. He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.     For more from the GWT, visit TheGamekeepersWelfareTrust.com For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast106  

Ben Harrower from BH Wildlife Consultancy uses a thermal drone for a unique aerial view of how the six UK deer species populations, and our wild boar, are expanding and contracting across the UK. As part of our filming for A Year in the Life of Sika, Ben covers all aspects of his work from the advances in drone tech to the incredible wildlife moments he is able to witness from 400ft in the air. Find BH Wildlife Consultancy at BHWildlifeConsultancy.com For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast115

They shot 5,000 rabbits in one day in Shropshire and 7,000 in one day at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The rabbit has had a relatively short but dramatic history in the UK, from Roman food source through population explosions, and becoming one of the most prized quarry species of the great Victorian shots. Shooting writer Simon Reinhold tells the animal's story to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. For more from Simon, visit SimonReinhold.co.uk For more ways to listen to this, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast110

Nick Fox has been working on this book all his life. The hunter, zoologist and falconer has brought out Hunting Ethics: A Personal Journey. In this podcast with Charlie Jacoby, he talks about different elements of the book, including why it is innate within us to hunt – and governments can't ban hunting. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast114 Buy Hunting Ethics at Falcons.co.uk/product/hunting-ethics-a-personal-journey/  

Teresa Dent CBE led the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust as chief executive for 22 years. In the spring of 2025, she retires. In July 2024, she came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to talk about the trust's work, and the difficulty of producing science that politicians can use. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast113 Find the GWCT at GWCT.org uk

SJ Hunt runs the Country Food Trust, a charity that delivers game, venison, poultry and vegetarian meals to food banks and the homeless. It is the major market for pheasants, partridges and deer carcases. Talking to Charlie Jacoby at the 2024 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre, she explains how it works. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast112 Find the Country Food Trust at TheCountryFoodTrust.org  

BASC chief executive Ian Bell explains the new Value of Shooting report , which shows how vital the sport is to rural economies. He is talking to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. Click here for more about the report For more ways to listen to this podcast go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast111

Louisa Clutterbuck from the game meat marketing agency Eat Wild explains her role, and how it fits in with other agencies such as Game To Eat and Eat Game. She talks to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024. (And she had the baby, a boy called Jasper). For more, go to Eat Wild's:  Website  Instagram  Facebook  X.com 

Greg Smith MP says how to deal with the Labour government.  Of course, he was talking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024, just after the general election, and much water has gone under the rural bridge since then – but his advice stands.  To listen to the whole podcast,  go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportchannelpodcast108    

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   

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. Click here for Moorland Matters, £25 For more ways to listen to this, click here  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   

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.  For more clips from the series, visit the River Monsters YouTube channel For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast85 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham   

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.   For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast84   This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham   

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. They talked about how to re-establish clayshooting to international greatness. Click here for more ways to listen to this This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK's largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham  

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. For Simon's new book, visit Simon-Whitehead.com/pugs-and-drummers-book For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast82 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham   

In 2022, rangers at Rockwood Conservation in South Africa brought in a frightened, sick newborn rhino. Crows had pecked at its eyes. Miraculously, vets saved some of its sight. They named the animal ‘Hope'. Wicus Diederichs from Rockwood reports on Hope's progress and how the other rhinos in the nursery are treating her. He also talks about the realities of rhino conservation and the challenges he faces.     Rockwood Conservation's website is RockwoodConservation.com For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast81 This podcast is brought to you by the British Shooting Show, the UK largest gun show, held at the NEC, Birmingham 

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 management, top venison chef José Souto and Bedfordshire-based deer manager and sporting agent Paul Childerley. For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast80

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 in this podcast chat. Find Nicole on Instagram  For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast80

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 Quinton from Essex police.    For other ways to listen to this podcast, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast78

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 general licences has lost trust with its client base, the people who live in the countryside, and how DEFRA is doubling down on getting it so badly wrong.

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 https://riveractionuk.com/  

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.  

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 he can do).     For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast74  

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.    For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast73  

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.   For more ways to listen to this, visit https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast72  

With children dying every week from an epidemic of human-wildlife conflict, the government of India knows it has to tackle the problem. It has to transition form preservation to conservation. But how? Four experts put forward their views: Dr MK Ranjitsinh, Dr HS Pabla, Rajeev Mathew and Latika Nath.   For more on this story, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/tiger

Charlie chats to artist and not-very-vegan Katie Hargreaves, who is squaring her green beliefs with her keenness to go hunting and source her own meat. For more ways to listen to this, visit FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast65 For more from Katie, visit KatieHargreavesArt.com  

It's Ian Coghill, ex chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, vs Duncan Orr-Ewing of 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.

Gareth Wyn Jones is the outspoken Welsh hill farmer who starred in the BBC's The Family Farm. He believes that the disconnection between town and country is driving a wedge between the two communities – and, in this talk, he spells out why.   Find Gareth on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook    For more ways to listen to this, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast68

UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation, the Moorland Association and the Gun Trade Association are among those involved in the survey. They are calling on shooters to take part. The independent research specialists, Cognisense, will obtain facts and figures which will reflect the importance of shooting in the UK. The previous report in 2014 revealed at least 600,000 people in the UK shoot live quarry, clay pigeons or targets. The value of shooting was worth £2 billion to the UK economy. The new report will be published in 2023. BASC's Caroline Bedell explains the survey to Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2022. For the survey, go to ValueOfShooting.co.uk For more podcast links, visit Fcha.nl/fieldsportschannelpodcast67