The Four Miles of Brick Wall Episode
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With George on holiday, GunsOnPegs MD Digby Taylor steps into the breach to take on hosting duties alongside Chris. Their guest is Duncan Clark, owner of Braxted Park, the Essex shoot famed for its powerful Kansas Thunder pheasants and testing partridge. Duncan, a former trustee of the Country Food Trust, helps Chris and Diggers to tackle listener correspondence on the topics of part-trained gundogs and ties on shoot days, before sharing his thoughts on the importance of family, community and frivolity on shoot days. He also touches on the role that estates like Braxted can have in their local community, and paints his picture of what the future of shooting might look like at Braxted and beyond. 
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