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The Human Story

Join award-winning journalist and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar as he talks with Elizabeth Oldfield about interviewing white supremacists, exposing police corruption, and telling raw stories from inside...
Speaker(s): Mobeen Azhar, Elizabeth Oldfield

Policing the Beats

Lambros Fatsis (aka Boulevard Soundsystem) shows how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery till now, and how racist legal processes make...
Speaker(s): Lambros Fatsis

Half-Changed World

Amid the multiple crises of pandemic, war, climate emergency and AI dominance, Lucy Winkett explores the resources faith offers for navigating a world that is not more secular, but more furiously...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett

Dark Night

Martha Sprackland reads her luminous translations of poems and prose by 16th-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross. His immediate, sensual writing swings between light and dark, desperation and...
Speaker(s): Martha Sprackland

Liturgies of the Wild

Modern Christianity often seems to forget the contemplative, mythic and imaginative. Martin Shaw prescribes, ancient technologies, story, ecology, liturgy and rites of passage, to deepen the...
Speaker(s): Martin Shaw, Elizabeth Oldfield

Poetry and Social Justice

In this hour of conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Puerto Rican American poet Martín Espada, known for his commitment to justice, will read poems and discuss the themes of his art, and share his...
Speaker(s): Martín Espada, Pádraig Ó Tuama

Rage Against the Machine

Many of us feel the pull of righteous anger. But does our anger disrupt the machine, or fuel it? Matt draws lessons from parenting, priesthood and Jesus to learn how to resist injustice without being...
Speaker(s): Matt Way

Late Light

Author Michael Malay ponders how we can hold together the everyday miracles of the natural world with a political world of hostile immigration policies and rising inequality. Can our animal...
Speaker(s): Michael Malay

The UK’s Most Arrested Priest

Life is about radical obedience to the will of God, says Rev Sue Parfitt (84). A life-long disciple of Jesus, she talks about putting her body on the line for life and justice in Palestine and in the...
Speaker(s): Sue Parfitt

How NOT to Flee a War

A first-hand account of fleeing Kyiv as Russia's full-scale invasion began. Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko and Jez Myers share a story of chaos, loss, resilience and dark humour.
Speaker(s): Talks For Ukraine

Secret Special (Friday)

Who will it be this evening? Come along to find out who is the secret special guest on the Hope and Anchor bar stool, where, as always, the conversation will be free-flowing, gritty and real....
Speaker(s): Jordan Stephens

Secret Special (Saturday)

Who will it be this evening? Come along to find out who is the secret special guest on the Hope and Anchor bar stool, where, as always, the conversation will be free-flowing, gritty and real....
Speaker(s): Mobeen Azhar

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Ending Complicity in Israel’s Genocide & Apartheid

Palestinian human rights defender Omar Bargouti reveals the power of boycotts, divestment and sanctions in defeating Israel's apartheid policies and in challenging the complicity of international...
Speaker(s): Omar Barghouti

Power of Play

Play fuels wellbeing, creativity and connection. It doesn't need a reason or a rule. We just need space, time and permission to play. Join us for an interactive, energising session where we'll...
Speaker(s): Playful

What Do We Do About Christian Nationalism?

Far right politicians and movements regularly turn to Christianity to evoke a sense of nationalism and belonging. But is this tendency heretical or heartfelt? And how should the church respond?
Speaker(s): Luke Bretherton, Chine McDonald, The Rev Canon Dr Duncan Dormor, USPG