
Somewhere to be leaving

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.

The Girl from Montego Bay
Bishop Rose Hudson is a trailblazer. The Church of England's first black female bishop talks life in Jamaica and in an ever-changing UK, facing discrimination, and never wavering from her call to...
Speaker(s): Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin
How Animals Heal Us
Celebrated author Jay Griffiths talks provides the evidence for what pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know: animals heal. But can they guide us in creating societies that are healthier,...
Speaker(s): Jay Griffiths
Waking 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 Hall
What’s Got Into You?
What is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe? The health of person and planet are inextricably linked; join ecological doctor Jenny Goodman to ask how can we un-poison both?
Speaker(s): Jenny Goodman
Jeremy Corbyn in conversation
A life lived firmly on the left of British politics has seen Jeremy Corbyn a constant irritant to those in power until, for a brief moment, he found himself leader of his own party, standing on a...
Speaker(s): Jeremy Corbyn
Worldwide Woken Spurred
We're international baby! Not content with showcasing the UK's finest wordsmiths on site, World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker now brings the best poets IN THE WORLD to the best audience in the...
Speaker(s): Harry Baker, Len Pennie
Your Rest Is Your Resistance
What if impactful activism didn't mean running ourselves dry? What if gentleness with ourselves was the real foundation for revolution? Explore the joys of deeply sustainable activism in this...
Speaker(s): Jo Musker-Sherwood
Joining The Blue Dots
Prof Joanne Preston, leader of the Seascape Restoration Lab, links our relationship with the seas to human wellbeing and reaching our global biodiversity and climate goals. And she'll outline just...
Speaker(s): Joanne Preston
The Heartbeat of God
Celtic author John Philip Newell and his wife Ali Newell will lead us in a spiritual practice and simple ritual inspired by Celtic wisdom and its reverence for Earth, the human body, and the true...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell
Battle for the Biosphere
Doughnut Economics ringmaster Kate Raworth juggles the profound tensions between the deep designs of nature and of finance. Will finance inevitably eat the Earth, or can it be redesigned to be in...
Speaker(s): Kate Raworth
How to be a Half-Arse Human
Perfectionists and procrastinators welcome! Come and learn about the power of radical mediocrity as we make peace with slap-dashing life, work out what is ACTUALLY worth our time and live better...
Speaker(s): Leena Norms
The Genesis of Hope: Marilynne Robinson in Conversation
Where does the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the Gilead sequence find hope? What role does fiction play in building a better world? Marilynne Robinson explores the relationship between self,...
Speaker(s): Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Tate
