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To Have or To Hold

What can nature's hidden relationships teach us? Science communicator Sophie Pavelle talks about why we need to understand symbiosis: totally different species evolving to live together for...
Speaker(s): Sophie Pavelle

Potholes and Pavements

Q&A with Laura Laker, author of Potholes and Pavements, a Bumpy Ride on Britain's National Cycle Network. Laura asks, what if we had a Network that genuinely gave us the choice not to drive for every...
Speaker(s): Laura Laker, Dave Walker

SCM Young Voices

What can we learn from Generation Z? Bite-sized talks and discussions on the topics the next generation of speakers are passionate about, kick-starting conversations that are important for everyone...
Speaker(s): Student Christian Movement

Travel Green. Feel Free?

Bring your imagination and experiences to explore how sustainable places and journeys can deliver freedom and independence for people of all ages. An interactive discussion with a panel of transport...
Speaker(s): Laura Laker, Anna Williams

How’s Your Hope? How’s Your Anger?

With wit, warmth and humour, poet Henry Raby and theatre-maker Natalie Quatermass present a raucous live recording of the podcast where art and activism meet. With live music and poetry and some...
Speaker(s): The Vandal Factory Podcast Live

Time Travel as a Tool for Activism

Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins shares some of the tools and insights from his new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future', sharing practices and activists whose work plays with time and...
Speaker(s): Rob Hopkins

Positive Tipping Points

Tim Lenton, founder of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, tells us how we can each play a part in triggering vital positive...
Speaker(s): Tim Lenton

Festival Communion Gathering

Hope In Our Hands. We gather to remind ourselves that hope is more than optimism, but instead a habit of character we must choose, practise and cultivate. We gather to be reminded of the strength of...
Speaker(s): Adjoa Andoh, Sarah Corbett, Seth Pinnock, Two:23

Stories from Land and Ocean

Australian novelist Tim Winton (twice nominated for the Booker) talks to Malcolm Doney about Juice, a book which will “stab your conscience and break your heart”, also about faith, the importance...
Speaker(s): Tim Winton

Who am I to Judge?

Hear from Dr Victoria McCloud, the UK's first – and so far only – openly trans High Court judge. A practising Roman Catholic, she now chairs medical tribunals, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and runs...
Speaker(s): Victoria McCloud, Rachel Mann

What Next For Palestine Activism?

As the Free Palestine protests continue in massive numbers – while the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and its grip on the West Bank show no signs of abating – it's clear that civil society and the...
Speaker(s): Ahmed Alnaouq, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Yara Eid

Judgement 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 Minson

Save Our Retirements: How to Build a Pension System for People and Planet

The UK government is carrying out the biggest pensions review in a generation – but it's ignoring the climate and nature crises and our societal inequality. With £3 trillion of our money in the...
Speaker(s): Andrew Finney, Phoebe Edmonds, Jesse Griffiths

Church: 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 Wroe

Hope in the Dating: Finding love and connection in a disconnected world

As we explore whether technology has made it easier or harder to form genuine connections, are we at a cultural turning point in how we approach dating and relationships? How can we keep honesty and...
Speaker(s): Chine McDonald, Lamorna Ash, Seth Pinnock, Vicky Walker