
All Talks 2025
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2025.

Greenbelt 2025 All Talks
The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2025.

Women: Making and Unmaking
From the Virgin Mary to tradwives on Instagram, society's interpretations of the Bible have distorted how women are seen. Authors Chine McDonald and Beth Allison-Barr want to tell a more hopeful...
Speaker(s): Beth Allison Barr
The Artform of Religion
Brian Eno and Liz Slade bring their perspectives as religious outsiders to ask if art and religion have a shared purpose. Can religion, like art, be a palace of joy and fun, or does holiness stifle...
Speaker(s): Liz Slade
Boundaries, Beliefs and Belonging
Members of the Iona Community have engaged in a year-long conversation about the boundaries of belief, about what it means to belong in a Christian community, and about the place of doubt and...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey
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
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, Jayne Manfredi, John Philip Newell, Lamorna Ash, Martin Wroe
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
Women: Making and Unmaking
From the Virgin Mary to tradwives on Instagram, society's interpretations of the Bible have distorted how women are seen. Authors Chine McDonald and Beth Allison-Barr want to tell a more hopeful...
Speaker(s): Beth Allison Barr, Chine McDonald
Boundaries, Beliefs and Belonging
Members of the Iona Community have engaged in a year-long conversation about the boundaries of belief, about what it means to belong in a Christian community, and about the place of doubt and...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey
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
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
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, Jayne Manfredi, John Philip Newell, Lamorna Ash, Martin Wroe, Chine McDonald
Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town Totnes, and author of several books including ‘The Transition Handbook‘ and most recently, ‘From What Is to What If:...

James Stewart
James Stewart is a partner and chief technology officer at digital transformation consultancy Public Digital. He works with governments and institutions like the World Bank, IMF and Gates Foundation...
