
Hope in Action
Drawing on Lamma Mansour's lived experience in Nazareth, and Christian Aid's work in the occupied Palestinian territory, join us to listen in on a hope-full conversation. Sally and Lamma will explore...
Speaker(s): Christian Aid, Lamma Mansour, Sally Foster-Fulton
Fringe Dweller
A fresh look at Jesus the Fringe Dweller. Exploring his encounters with those at the fringes and delving deeper into one story - Flip The Script. With conversation, participation and artist responses...
Speaker(s): David Cotterill, Jonny Baker
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
Who Will Slay the Elbit Beast?
Clare Hinchcliffe's daughter Zoe (20) was imprisoned for 18 months on remand for direct action against an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol. Clare and Zoe share their story and how prayer and poetry...

Love Your Cancelled Enemy
Dave Tomlinson asks what it means to love our enemies in an age of callouts and cancel culture. Can movements for justice stay transformative without writing people off, are there better ways to...
Speaker(s): Dave Tomlinson
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
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
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
