Where do all the snipe go?

Pietro Scovazzo and his colleague Daniele Piva come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Beretta family's gunmaking business. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast158 

The Schöffel Countryside Awards on 9 November 2026 in London are clothing company Schöffel's contribution to the national debate about the future of rural Britain. Marcus Jansen from Schöffel and Tim Furbank from OakBank Game & Conservation talk about what makes them great. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast157 For more, visit SchoffelcCountry.com/pages/countryside-awards  

Where do all the snipe go? GWCT wetlands ecologist Bleddyn Thomas comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2026 to reveal the first findings from a pioneering research project which discovers where our wintering snipe go to breed, tracking migration routes to places as far away as Russia, Scandinavia and Iceland. For more ways to listen to this podcast, go to https://fieldsportschannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast156 For more, visit https://www.gwct.org.uk/news/news/2026/may/snipe-on-the-move/ or watch the GWCT's film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJHZ_eVIFWM 

Sarah Roberts is an environmental journalist and biologist with 15 years' experience in conservation, known for the Netflix documentary All the Sharks and co-hosting a podcast with Steve Backshall. She comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about her five-year documentary The Hunt: Into the Grey and why investigating the global trophy hunting debate challenged her own views, revealing a far more complex story than the black-and-white narrative many of us have been led to believe. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast155 Trailer for The Hunt: Into the Grey on YouTube 

Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Patrick Galbraith comes to the Carter Jonas Game Fair theatre 2026 to talk with Charlie Jacoby about the rural news agenda - what makes the front pages and what's not even a crossword clue these days. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast154 Find Patrick on Scribehound Scribehound.com/author/patrick-galbraith  

The BBC's scriptwriters gave Sir David Attenborough duff information on pheasants. The BBC's 2026 wildlife series Secret Garden claimed pheasants eat vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day, with no evidence to back it up. The reverse is true. Best-practice gamebird releasing achieves a biodiversity gain, which is the subject of Game for Nature, a new report by GWCT. CEO Nick von Westenholz and director of advisory Roger Draycott discuss its findings with Charlie in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre. For more ways to listen, go to https://FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast153 For more about the report, visit https://www.gwct.org.uk/news/news/2026/september/new-report-reveals-benefits-to-biodiversity-of-gamebird-releasing/ 

Warwickshire county councillor Scott Cameron (Restore Britain) successfully introduced, saw off opposition from the antis and had passed a motion supporting gamekeepers and farmers in the county. He came to the 2026 Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre to explain to Charlie how he did it. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast152 For Scott, visit X.com/CllrScottC  

Three more years. The Labour Government, with its massive majority, has until August 2029 to rebuild its relationship with the British countryside. Trailhunting bans, family farm tax, and Islington animal rights agends: we look at what it is likely to do and what we can do to fight back. Panel is Dr Marnie Lovejoy from BASC, who specialises in holding the government to account, and former DEFRA minister Sir Mark Spencer from Aim to Sustain. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast151 For BASC, visit BASC.org.uk

BASC's top team discuss their recent High Court victory against Natural England and how their Fighting Fund can lead the battle for shooting. Chief executive Ian Bell and chairman Eoghan Cameron come to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2026 to say what a battle it was. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast150 For BASC, visit BASC.org.uk

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP spells out how PM Andy Burnham should approach his dealings with the British countryside. He and BASC lobbyist Orlando Wind-Cowie are speaking to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July. It's the inaugural Christopher Graffius memorial debate, in memory of Christopher, who was in charge of communications and public affairs at BASC for many years and who died earlier in 2026. For more ways to listen, go to FieldsportsChannel.tv/fieldsportschannelpodcast149 For more about Christopher Graffius, visit BASC.org.uk/basc-honours-christopher-graffius-game-fair/