Meet the first names for this year’s lineup
We thought we'd get 2026 off to the best of starts with our very own New Year's Honours list, and share with you a sprinkling of our first, early names for this year's festival, Let It All...
Let it all go
Last summer, John Bell said something that has stuck with us ever since. Explaining his rationale for 2025 being his last festival as an active contributor (so he could make way for others), he told...
Somewhere to be leaving
Alternative Intelligence
A guest blog written by Alice Wroe after being in conversation with Hannah Silva about her book 'My Child, The Algorithm' at Greenbelt this summer. Alice Wroe is XR Lead for Atlantic Institute...
Hope in our Hands
2025 Act of Communion It's said that human beings can survive about five weeks without food, and about five days without water, but we can't survive five minutes without hope.
All Talks 2025
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2025.
Greenbelt 2025 All Talks
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2025.
Women: Making and Unmaking
From the Virgin Mary to tradwives on Instagram, society's interpretations of the Bible have distorted how women are seen. Authors Chine McDonald and Beth Allison-Barr want to tell a more hopeful...
Speaker(s): Beth Allison Barr, Chine McDonaldThe Artform of Religion
Brian Eno and Liz Slade bring their perspectives as religious outsiders to ask if art and religion have a shared purpose. Can religion, like art, be a palace of joy and fun, or does holiness stifle...
Speaker(s): Brian Eno, Liz SladeBoundaries, Beliefs and Belonging
Members of the Iona Community have engaged in a year-long conversation about the boundaries of belief, about what it means to belong in a Christian community, and about the place of doubt and...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth HarveyWaking the Women
With humour, radical honesty and prophetic storytelling, Radio 4 Thought for the Day-er Jayne Manfredi offers a rallying cry for women to wake up to the potential of menopause and midlife as a time...
Speaker(s): Jayne Manfredi, Becky HallJudgement Not Justice: Race, Creativity and the Criminal System
Justice begins in community, but why are some communities more policed, more punished, and less heard than others? This powerful panel explores how racial bias, systemic assumptions, music and the...
Speaker(s): Andrea Coomber, Ben Lindsay, Elli Brazzill, Lady Unchained, Shona MinsonChurch: Do You Still Go?
Quiet revival or quiet denial? Is big best or is small beautiful? What keeps you going or sends you running ? Can we belong without believing — or vice versa? Have you given up or have you found...
Speaker(s): Andrew Rumsey, Chine McDonald, Jayne Manfredi, John Philip Newell, Lamorna Ash, Martin WroeWomen: Making and Unmaking
From the Virgin Mary to tradwives on Instagram, society's interpretations of the Bible have distorted how women are seen. Authors Chine McDonald and Beth Allison-Barr want to tell a more hopeful...
Speaker(s): Beth Allison Barr, Chine McDonaldBoundaries, Beliefs and Belonging
Members of the Iona Community have engaged in a year-long conversation about the boundaries of belief, about what it means to belong in a Christian community, and about the place of doubt and...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey