
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
Policing the Beats
Lambros Fatsis (aka Boulevard Soundsystem) shows how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery till now, and how racist legal processes make...
Speaker(s): Lambros Fatsis
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
The Human Story
Join award-winning journalist and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar as he talks with Elizabeth Oldfield about interviewing white supremacists, exposing police corruption, and telling raw stories from inside...
Speaker(s): Mobeen Azhar, Elizabeth Oldfield
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
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
Rage Against the Machine
Many of us feel the pull of righteous anger. But does our anger disrupt the machine, or fuel it? Matt draws lessons from parenting, priesthood and Jesus to learn how to resist injustice without being...
Speaker(s): Matt Way
Late Light
Author Michael Malay ponders how we can hold together the everyday miracles of the natural world with a political world of hostile immigration policies and rising inequality. Can our animal...
Speaker(s): Michael Malay
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
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Ending Complicity in Israels Genocide & Apartheid
Palestinian human rights defender Omar Bargouti reveals the power of boycotts, divestment and sanctions in defeating Israel's apartheid policies and in challenging the complicity of international...
Speaker(s): Omar Barghouti
