Country Food Trust

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