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Brought to you by The Yorkshire Gent, the Country Gent Podcast features special guests from the world of clay and game shooting, fishing, whisky, style, history and business. Each episode will feature a main interview, a tasting of a different Scotch whisky and one or more English monarchs going all the way back to 1066. If you love the great British countryside and everything to do with country and sporting life, this show is for you!
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In episode 70 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is professional dog trainer and gundog enthusiast Georgia Selby. Georgia shares some great information about training dogs and shares some great tales from her days in the field when out beating. You can learn more about Georgia's training methods and services at the following places: https://tra…
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In episode 68 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Dr Robert Thomas, a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University whose work centres around conservation and land use. It's safe to say that Rob is not pro-shooting but is keen to ensure that the issue of raptor persecution is solved and puts forward some ideas of how that can be achieved.…
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In episode 60 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Nigel 'Fennel' Hudson. We discuss his background in angling, his deep passion for the countryside and how the Wild Carp Trust came to exist. Angling for wild strains of carp that are much closer genetically to the old strains that existed centuries ago is probably an arm of the sport that many…
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In episode 57 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Liam Stokes, Chief Exec of the British Game Alliance. Liam tells us all about the reasons why he took on the role, what his plans are for it and also gives us some insight into his time at DEFRA. Also on the show, we cover the latest news in fieldsports and try a 20 year old single malt from a…
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In episode 56 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guests are Robbie Kröger of Blood Origins and Shaun Porter of Global Outdoors. Robbie and Shaun recently collaborated on a project so we learn all about that plus we find out more about the background of Blood Origins and how Robbie is trying to help the hunting community with its messaging. Also on th…
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In episode 55 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is former multiple British & European Smallbore side by side champion and Head of Operations at Holts Auctioneers, Simon Reinhold. We discuss steel shot, old English side by sides and modern game shooting. Also on the show, we welcome back Tim Roberts of Whisky Online to taste with us another fan…
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In episode 52 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Pete Tyjas of the brilliant Fly Culture Magazine. Pete tells us about his life in fly fishing, the background to starting the magazine and what it takes to put such a high quality publication together. Also on the show, Rob and Nick share their top lockdown tips, we do our first remote whisky …
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In episode 51 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is David Thompson of Driven Sporting who tells us all about life in the gun trade. Also on the show we taste an amazing whisky from an undisclosed distillery in Speyside and we give our views on the recently announced lead ban for game shooting.By The Yorkshire Gent
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For the 50th episode of the podcast we bring you a bumper edition with two guests. The first is Joe Clark, Whisky Director of Spirit of Yorkshire distillery who tells us all about the first single malt whisky to be produced on Yorkshire soil (of course, we get to taste it!) The second is the guest who kicked the podcast off in 2017, Gareth Dockerty…
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In episode 49 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Jason Doyle, the face of YouTube programme Fieldsports Ireland. We discuss his background and how he got into fieldsports, what the scene looks like in Ireland, his move to Yorkshire and how the planning and filming process works for the channel. Also on the show, we try our first Irish whisky…
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In this episode of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Justin Nicholson. Born in the UK, Justin now lives in Denmark and is the France country manager for Deerhunter. We chat about his hunting in both Denmark and France and the merits of a European style hunting license.By The Yorkshire Gent
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In episode 46 of The Country Gent Podcast, our guests are The Somerset Hunters. We discuss their life in fieldsports, how they got into it and what it looks like now, their Instagram account and the thought process behind it plus some of the challenges facing the shooting community. Also on the show, we cover some of the latest news and try the Lap…
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In this episode of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is Shaun Porter of Global Outdoors. Shaun tells us all about his adventures in Africa, Australia, Alaska and his epic trip to the American deep south. Also on the show, we try the Balvenie 14 Year Old Carribbean Cask and Rob's muntjac stalk has finally happened - was he successful?…
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In this episode of The Country Gent Podcast, our guest is the fascinating James McKay. James is a zoologist, an author, a ferreter, falconer, animal nut and out and out countryman. Also on the show, we bring you another two whisky tastings and the next part of the latest history feature.By The Yorkshire Gent
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In this episode (recorded at The Northern Shooting Show), our guest is Duncan Thomas of BASC - the British Association for Shooting and Conservation. Duncan gives us an update on the general license situation plus we hear all about his background and how he ended up in his role at BASC. We also bring you the regular whisky and history features.…
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Richard Wardell and City Gent editor Mike Harrison chat about Richard's publication 'One Year, Two Seasons', a personal diary of following Bradford City AFC between April 2017 to May 2018. We also discuss the history of the City Gent fanzine and Bradford City's season thus far. Listen as we manage to jinx City's home game with Southend United.…
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Paul Norcross and David Pendleton visit Bradford University's School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences to chat to Dr Chris Gaffney about his investigations into the archaeology of sport and leisure. Chris is a geophysicist, he featured on eighty episodes of Channel 4's Time Team and is now head of department at Bradford. We hear about the pio…
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North Parade's favourite philosopher, Paul Norcross, chats with Les Hall and David Pendleton, about the historical curiosities of football in the former Yugoslavia. From Trieste where, in the same stadium, two teams played concurrently in the Italian and Yugoslavian leagues; Zagreb where a player's Cantona-esque drop-kick on a policemen has been me…
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In the 21st century Association Football dominates global sport. The People's Game has swept all before it, but its birth in nineteenth century Britain was marked by division and conflict. Attempts to agree a formalised rule book broke the game of football into differing codes. Hence the establishment of the Football Association and Rugby Union. A …
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In this episode of The Country Gent Podcast, we welcome back the legend that is Simon Whitehead. Simon tells us about the challenges he faces as somebody who makes a living from controlling rabbits and why he's having to diversify to survive. We also talk about his DNA Film Festival win last year and his plans for this year plus we discuss the issu…
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