Empire with Danny Dorling
Somewhere To Believe In A greenbelt podcast This week Katherine and Paul welcome the incredible social geographer Danny Dorling. Join us as we don our breathing apparatus and dive deep, deep down...
Speaker(s): Danny DorlingDignity with Amanda Khozi Mukwashi
Somewhere To Believe In A greenbelt podcast Katherine and Paul are joined by the CEO of Christian Aid, and all-round wonder woman, Amanda Khozi Mukwashi. In an honest, powerful conversation we...
Speaker(s): Amanda Khozi MukwashiEmpathy with Roman Krznaric
Somewhere To Believe In A greenbelt podcast Welcome to Somewhere To Believe In, a brand new podcast from Greenbelt Festival. In our first episode, hosts Katherine and Paul dig into the topic of...
Speaker(s): Roman KrznaricStay Alert to Justice
Roo Stewart of the United Reformed Church, one of Greenbelt's partners, encourages us to keep looking beyond ourselves during lockdown and beyond. ‘Stay Alert', the slogan began. Observers...
Podcast
A nun, a Rabbi, a Muslim convert, a Lutheran firebrand, a humanist, an American liberation theologian, an ex Met police officer and an LGBTQ+ priest go into a bar. Join us for series three of...
Good Grief!
A guest blog from our partner Christian Aid, written by Rev. Alton P Bell, senior pastor, Wembley Family Church. Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning: a call for the...
Black Lives Matter: Is the church complicit? A transatlantic conversation
Thursday 18th June, 2020 – 8pm on Facebook and Youtube #GBBLM youtube.com/greenbeltfestival facebook.com/GreenbeltFestival We're really thrilled and privileged to be able to stream a...
A Quiet Moment
A guest blog for Greenbelt, Wild At Home from poet and long-term Greenbelt, Anthony Wilson I can't be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an...
Why we’re coming together as we stay apart
A blog from our main partner Christian Aid in this, Christian Aid Week. In humanitarian camps like the ones in Maiduguri in Northern Nigeria, where thousands have been displaced from their homes...
A story about flying
Here's the third of our guest blogs as part of our #GBWildAtHome digital summer here at Greenbelt … This one is written by Cole Moreton. Cole is an award-winning writer and journalist and a long,...
Shaparak Khorsandi
Shaparak established herself as one of the country's finest comedians in 2006 with her sell out Edinburgh show, Asylum Speaker. This show lead to the publication of her childhood memoirs, “A...
Simon Armitage
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was born and grew up in West Yorkshire. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the PEN Prize for Translation....
Where The Wild Things Are
Each year we conjure a theme here at Greenbelt to inspire and guide us in our creative decision-making. And in the hope that all of us, festival-goers and artists alike, will feel energised to have...
Frances Crook
Appointed Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform in 1986, Frances Crook was responsible for research programmes and campaigns to raise public concern about the penal system, until her...
Jake Isaac
Born and raised in South London, UK, Jake Isaac began playing drums age 3 and by 19 had begun to make a living as a part-time session musician playing drums and bass on various jazz and rock records...