Just one more small slice of the lineup for 2009

We talk to Agents of Future, an ultra-participatory emerging church group from Portland Oregon, Barbara Nice stand-up comic creation of Janice Conolly, Jasper Fforde best-selling fantasy novelist, Ed Richmond about Keep Monday Special (KMS) at this year's Festival, Yaron from The Apples, Israeli funk outfit headlining the KMS Ball, Martin Wroe about this year's theme, 'Standing in the Long Now', and Beki Bateson, Greenbelt Festival Director, about just some of the ways in which she thinks the Festival is special.

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Timings – so you can dip in and out if you want to:

00.00 – 02.20 – Intro
02.20 – 06.50 – Agents of Future
06.50 – 09.30 – Barbara Nice
09.30 – 12.55 – Jasper Fforde
12.55 – 14.22 – Ed Richmond on 'Keep Monday Special'
14.22 – 15.46 – The Apples
15.46 – 18.30 – Martin Wroe on 'Standing in the Long Now'
18.30 – 21.00 – Festival Director, Beki Bateson
21.00 – 22.58 – Outro

Resources and links

Agents of Future
Click here for their MySpace site
Click here for a nice description of their music.
Click here for our own Ben Edson's interview with AoF.

Barbara Nice
for Barbara's website.
Click here to see her on Facebook.

Click here to browse and view all Barbara's Comedy Guides on YouTube.
Click here to see her crowd surfing (yes, that's right) at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London.

Jasper Fforde
Click here for Jasper's website.

Also check out Jasper's books; The Fourth Bear, The Big Over Easy and the highly-successful Thursday Next series

Keep Monday Special
Details will be announced here soon

The Apples
Click here for their MySpace site.

Standing in the Long Now
Click here for Martin Wroe's piece on this year's Festival theme.
Click here for the Long Now Foundation website.

Soundtrack

Athlete – You Got The Style / In Between 2 States
Zero 7 – Home
Agents of Future – Peace on its Feet / Did What You Promised
The Apples – The Power
Theme from Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere / Phoenix Nights
U2 – Beautiful Day
Eno – Always Returning

Credits

• Narrated by Phil Smith and Grace Wroe
• Narration recorded by Iain Archer
• Mixed and Edited – bigJohn Noble
• Written and Executive Produced by Paul Northup
• Co-production – bigJohn Noble
• Field Recording – Paul Northup

Pictured at the head of this blog post, The Apples