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 wit…

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

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 momen…

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…

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…

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 …

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 FieldsportsChann…

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 F…

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 Fieldsp…

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 Advo…

Leon, Louisa and Sarah catch up to discuss the highlights of 2024. This will be the last episode for some time as Louisa is heading off on maternity leave, do share the podcast with family and friends so we can spread the work Eat Wild are doing to get more people eating wild meat.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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. The…

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 lis…

In this episode we speak to Roger Draycott, Director of Advisory, Education & Gamebird Policy at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust about the positive impact that well managed shoots have on the environment and how the research carried out by the GWCT proves this.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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 elepha…

In this month's episode we speak to Ross Ewing from Scottish Land and Estates about the work that is carried out on moorland and how grouse are integral to this/By Louisa Clutterbuck

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 …

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…

In this month's episode we speak to Claire from Welshhomestead Smokery about how she creates such wonderful bacon and how she worked with Leon, our Culinary Director to create venison bacon. Learn more about Welshhomestead Smokery here - https://welshsmokery.co.uk/By Louisa Clutterbuck

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…

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 All…

Do you want to learn how to BBQ wild meat? Listen to this month's episode with Jacqueline Wise on how to get the best from cooking game on the BBQ.By Louisa Clutterbuck

This month we speak to Andy Gray from MC Kelly about the challenges facing game dealers. MC Kelly is based in Devon and has been established since 1956.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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://Fi…

In this month's episode we speak to George Browne, he is Editor of GunsOnPegs and Head of Inspiration at Scribehound. He is also host and producer of The GunsOnPegs Podcast. We discuss the importance of communicating the brilliant work that is carried out in the countryside.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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.

In this weeks episode we talk all things deer with the brilliant David Hooton. David has been working with deer for the last 30 years and is one of the most knowledgable people on the subject.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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 y…

This week we speak to Sanjay Bhattacharya, our Scottish Ambassador, about the success of wild meat in the farm shop at Finzean as well as how Sanjay learnt about cooking with game.By Louisa Clutterbuck

Louisa is joined by the Culinary Director of Eat Wild, Leon Challis-Davies to discuss what they got up to in 2023.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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 …

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,…

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 sh…

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 way…

In this episode we chat with the remarkable Mette Karin Petersen about hunting and wild meat education in Denmark. Mette recently took over 200 hundred birds into Copenhagen to educate people on the benefits of eating wild meat.By Louisa Clutterbuck

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 FieldsportsChanne…

In this episode we speak to Lisa Cutcliffe about foraging, fermenting, preserving and using plants for medicine. You can find Lisa on Instagram - @eduliswildfoodBy Louisa Clutterbuck

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,…

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…

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-…

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 rea…

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 ven…