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Green Light For Change

As the old two-party system falls apart, Green Party CEO Harriet Lamb is keen to hear your views and questions. She outlines the power of progressive politics, and how we can all get involved in...
Speaker(s): Harriet Lamb

Could you slide the marmalade down this way?

Ever lived in community? Or talked to yourself about it? Or wondered if it's something for you? Utopian pipe dream or rule of a good life? Folk from the Iona Community share their experiences of a...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey

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

Meet the artist

Persuaded by his good friend (and ours) Martyn Joseph, the National Treasure that is Michael Sheen dials in from his family holiday to join us at Greenbelt to talk all things acting, arts, activism...
Speaker(s): Michael Sheen, Martyn Joseph

A Better Tomorrow

In 2020, Mina Smallman's daughters were murdered in a London park. The first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England, Mina campaigns for justice for them, and for a better, more...
Speaker(s): Mina Smallman, Cole Moreton

Seeds and Pearls

A Bible study on the stories Jesus told about letting go, scattering seeds, selling fields, seeking pearls. We'll explore different facets of our theme, Let it all go, and what we might dream and...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Religion, Reimagined

What if you don't have to be religious to benefit from religion? Religious ethicist Liz Bucar says religion offers something our secular self-help culture can't. An invitation to look at religion...
Speaker(s): Liz Bucar

When The Music Fades

Unpacking evangelical culture with clarity and compassion, Author Lucy Sixsmith revisits growing up in the Soul Survivor generation, from the euphoric highs of worship tents to the quiet reckoning of...
Speaker(s): Lucy Sixsmith

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

Faith in the Face of Empire

Shane Claiborne joins Greenbelt to share about the courageous work happening in the USA to confront Trump's authoritarian regime and the heresy of American nationalism.
Speaker(s): Shane Claiborne

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