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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

A Climate of Truth

What, exactly, is holding us back from combatting the climate crisis? Professor Mike Berners-Lee has a roadmap – and believes the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in politics,...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners-Lee

Ezekiel 37 – Re-Membering Hope

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? Miranda Threlfall-Holmes invites you to begin your Greenbelt with a meditation on Ezekiel's vision of the Valley of Dry Bones,...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Exodus 5 – Making Bricks Without Straw

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? This meditation invites you to contemplate how we can make hope when things go from bad to worse around us, and co-create...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

In the dead of night. The reality of living under military occupation.

Look through the eyes of Muhanad Al Qaisy, a third-generation Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem, as he shares a glimpse into the daily realities of life under military...

Nadine Shah in conversation

Join our Friday night headliner, in conversation with longterm Greenbelt volunteer and manager of Exeter's Cavern Club, Pippa Wragg, to talk music, inspiration, politics, and more. Mercury...
Speaker(s): Nadine Shah

The Hosts With The Most

Join our partners Refugees at Home to hear stories from hosts who've volunteered with them to offer short-term stays for refugees. Hear how – for both host and refugee alike – these stays have...
Speaker(s): Refugees at Home

To Have or To Hold

What can nature's hidden relationships teach us? Science communicator Sophie Pavelle talks about why we need to understand symbiosis: totally different species evolving to live together for...
Speaker(s): Sophie Pavelle

How To Take On Big Oil And Win

Blurb: Tessa Khan is a climate campaigner & lawyer who has successfully campaigned against major UK oil fields, like Cambo and Rosebank. At a crucial moment for the fight against new oil & gas, Tessa...
Speaker(s): Tessa Khan

How’s Your Hope? How’s Your Anger?

With wit, warmth and humour, poet Henry Raby and theatre-maker Natalie Quatermass present a raucous live recording of the podcast where art and activism meet. With live music and poetry and some...
Speaker(s): The Vandal Factory Podcast Live

Positive Tipping Points

Tim Lenton, founder of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, tells us how we can each play a part in triggering vital positive...
Speaker(s): Tim Lenton

Stories from Land and Ocean

Australian novelist Tim Winton (twice nominated for the Booker) talks to Malcolm Doney about Juice, a book which will “stab your conscience and break your heart”, also about faith, the importance...
Speaker(s): Tim Winton

Who am I to Judge?

Hear from Dr Victoria McCloud, the UK's first – and so far only – openly trans High Court judge. A practising Roman Catholic, she now chairs medical tribunals, fights for LGBTQ+ rights and runs...
Speaker(s): Victoria McCloud, Rachel Mann

What Next For Palestine Activism?

As the Free Palestine protests continue in massive numbers – while the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and its grip on the West Bank show no signs of abating – it's clear that civil society and the...
Speaker(s): Ahmed Alnaouq, Muhanad Al Qaisy, Yara Eid

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