Hunters are a ‘protected minority’

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 

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