John Macnab, the 1925 novel by John Buchan, has inspired an entire subculture of imitators, including the taking of a salmon, grouse (or brace) and stag on one day on an estate. John Buchan's granddaughter Ursula Buchan comes to the Game Fair Theatre to tell Charlie Jacoby the novel's back story, and a little of the life of her famous forebear.

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Two Scottish gamekeepers and a gamekeeper's wife talk to Charlie about the evive conference in Perth in November 2021. They bravely went along and listed to Packham and the RSPB trot out lies about grousemoors. However, they came away convinced that those of us on the side of nature can win this battle, as long as we keep pushing the science behind shooting and conservation.

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Tristan Breijer takes the stage of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre back in July 2021. He is one of the team behind the MyFieldsports app, known in the rest of the world as the MyHunt app, who wants to use the power of shooters' mobile phones to put us front and centre in the conservation debate.

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We bring together two vegans and two hunters to debate the issues. They meet on stage at the 2021 Game Fair at Ragley Hall.

Ryan Dalton runs the popular Into The Wild Podcast IntoTheWild.podbean.com

Katie Hargreaves is a wildlife artist KatieHargreavesArt.com

Paul Childerley is a hunting guide (and so much more) Instagram.com/paulchilderley

Charlie Jacoby is host of the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre

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After years of telling them that wild meat is good for, it's traceable and comes with low food miles, the mainstream is picking up on the importance of shooting your own supper. At the Scottish Game Fair 2021, Fife chef Chris Trotter brought together Mark Bush from local food marketing group Great Perthshire, who also runs Summer Harvest Oils, professional forager Amy Rankine from Hipsters & Hobos, and Pete Moore from Nature.Scot, which sponsored the event, and is now turning its hand to persuading the world to eat more venison.

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There's something compelling about the mahseer, that great India sporting fish, that has attracted anglers from all over the world - and especially the UK. Now, Norfolk angler Stephen Harper has produced The Mightiest Mahseer. Angling Trust ambassador Martin Salter is also a mahseer angler. He interviews Stephen about the fish, records, angling books, snakes and scorpions.

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Bill Harriman – whom you may recognise as an arms expert from BBC TV's Antiques Roadshow – has written the definitive book on the bayonet. He discusses it with Charlie Jacoby at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre at the Game Fair, Ragley Hall, July 2021.

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Ian Coghill has written the book that the RSPB, the National Trust, Natural England and Wild Justice ought to read. But they won't. He explains why moorland is so important to the UK, how gamekeepers have got it right when it comes to moorland management, and how the 'conservation industry' (the organisations just mentioned) have got it so, so wrong.

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In 2004, Tony Blair restricted hunting with hounds because, he said, it was good for the welfare of the fox. Since then, some estimates put UK fox numbers down 40%. Former head of the League Against Cruel Sports Jim Barrington and journalist Richard Negus want to know if Blair was right or wrong. Plus they want to know what the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, thinks he is doing by introducing and animal sentience bill. They talk to Charlie at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre in July 2021.

You can't win an election without winning rural seats. That's Sir Keir Starmer's credo. The man he has appointed to shadow the countryside is Daniel Zeichner MP, and he came to the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre tent. It's all part of Labour's Rural England Policy Review.

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Thanks to BASC for inviting him.