Christians and Inequality
In 2009, the 1,000 richest people became 30% richer. The difference between rich and poor is now at Victorian levels. Yet God created people of equal value: Old Testament prophets condemned the rich...
Speaker(s): Bob HolmanOne every five minutes
100,000 children in the UK under the age of 16 run away from home each year. About 20 per cent put themselves at serious risk of harm. But it's not just other people's children, it can affect us...
The Rich get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Billy Bragg, in conversation about his work with his Jail Guitar Doors charity – putting guitars into prisons – and about arts, rehabilitation and criminal justice more generally. Billy Bragg...
Theodora
Stella Duffy reads and talks about her work, in particular Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore. Theodora rose from abject poverty to become the comedy star of the Constantinople hippodrome at the age...
Reclaim the Spaces: rediscovering and enjoying wasted land
This summer Nicky Getgood staged a series of Reclaim The Spaces guerilla picnics in Digbeth to rediscover and enjoy some of its many wasted spaces and help local people get beyond feeling powerless...
Poetry as a dream of peace
The Corrymeela Community tells a story of a woman who came to its house for refuge. In her luggage she brought a small hatchet. She was ready to believe they were people of peace, but just in case,...
Lazarus is Dead
As you set out for Ithaka / hope the voyage is a long one…
Like Odysseus, we're all trying to find our way home. In some ways it's a paradoxical search, driving us to leave the familiar behind and journey into the unknown. But what kind of home should we...
Dreams of home
Mia will explore ideas of home – particularly the idealised vision people have of home, origins and family versus the reality – illustrated with short readings from her work. She'll look at the...
A Dream of Utopia in Soviet Karelia
Thousands of North American Finns, gripped by “Karelian Fever”, moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to help build a socialist utopia. What happens when utopian dreams go sour? Nancy's search...
Dreaming Under Fire
The launch of a new story collection from homeless exsoldiers. While researching a novel on faith in the battlefield, Jari Moate collected the stories of troops who returned to the UK to find...
Paradise Now
Elektra is a video artist whose day-job at a call centre is killing her. Betrayed by everyone she loves, she flees a disastrous, last-ditch exhibition of her art to be recruited by a controversial...
The Bride and The Alarm Clock
El Gruer returns to Greenbelt with her new poetry performance tour. The Bride and the Alarm Clock will throw you into the powerful tick tock of an eternal body clock. From the Scottish Highlands,...
Speaker(s): El GruerAll Families Are Psychotic
Perennial Greenbelt favourite Dr Andrew Tate leads literature lovers on a journey into the homes of famous families from fiction who are dysfunctional, oppressive and downright nightmarish. Tate's...
Speaker(s): Andrew TateLetterboxes and Lighthouses
Deborah will be reading from Good Condolences and talking more about her writing inspired by the paintings of 20th century US artist, Edward Hopper. Deborah has been writing short stories and flash...