Greenbelt Through the Decades: The 1990s
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we've asked some of the folk who've helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their festival experiences....
The Beloved Son presented by Murray Watts
Henri Nouen (1932 - 1996) was a Dutch, Catholic priest, psychologist, and professor who reached the heights of academic success at Yale and Harvard before abandoning everything to join the community...
Mal Pope
Mal Pope was born in Brynhyfryd, Swansea, Wales, into a family of teachers. He began learning to play the guitar aged seven and was soon writing songs. In the early 1970s Pope sent a tape of songs...
Patrick Jones
Poet and playwright. Performed Work Everything Must Go (Sherman Theatre, March 1999, with a tour of UK in 2000) The Guerilla Tapestry performed at the opening of the Welsh Assembly 'Voices Of A...
Pia Sinha
Pia joined the Prison Service in 1999 as a Higher Psychologist at HMP & YOI Holloway. After joining HMP Wandsworth as a Senior Psychologist, she took up the post of Head of Safer Prisons, followed by...
Who’s new on our dream ticket?
During the last month we've been slowly introducing you to this year's line-up. Lots of you have got in touch to say how much you're enjoying the slower approach this year, and the extra time...
DAM
DAM, meaning everlasting in Arabic, is the first Palestinian hip hop crew and among the first to rap in Arabic. Formed in the late 1990s, Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar, and Mahmood Jrere were...
Sophie Grace Chappell
Sophie Grace Chappell has been Professor of Philosophy at The Open University since 2006. Before that she was Reader in Philosophy at the University of Dundee (1998-2006), and before that she held...
Find out what’s cooking
Each week you're going to meet another handful of brand new names for this summer's festival. We're taking our time like this because a) we can, and b) full line-up posters can feel like an...
Smashed, presented by Gandini Juggling
You are cordially invited to a tea party that you will never forget... Smashed takes a witty look at forbidden fruit and the fraying relationship between seven men and two women. Traditional...
A Beautiful Human Life: Remembering Pip Wilson
With the blessing of Pip's family and of the writer, Martin Wroe, here's an edited version of the tribute that Martin gave at Pip Wilson's funeral earlier this October. ‘They say you're...
Radical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru CallenderTime’s Running Out: How To Build A Climate Movement that can win
Wildfires, drought, flooding, crop failure, extreme weather. Climate change is here. And in response - Extinction Rebellion, youth strikes, Green New Deals, Just Stop Oil. But still it feels like...
Speaker(s): Chris SaltmarshTime’s Running Out: How To Build A Climate Movement that can win
Wildfires, drought, flooding, crop failure, extreme weather. Climate change is here. And in response - Extinction Rebellion, youth strikes, Green New Deals, Just Stop Oil. But still it feels like...
Speaker(s): Chris SaltmarshRadical Funerals
Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru Callender