A message from Greenbelt………
The tents are all gone now. The stages are all packed down. The grass is getting the chance to be grass again (and let’s be honest, the deluge helped). But we’re still carrying the whole thing around with us – in all the best ways.
What a time we had together as we bade a tender, joyful, defiant goodbye to Boughton. A big year for ticket sales. Plus our biggest-ever OK Chorale. Not forgetting our biggest weather for some years too..
We hope you’re recovered/recovering. But if you’re still in denial, today’s Dispatches comes with a few ways to wander back into the fields again.
We really are letting it all go
Let’s begin with our leaving present to you. We’re making our entire archive of talks completely free to listen to, download and share – including our 2026 recordings.
Dive into talks and conversations from two weeks ago, and hear from people like Mina Smallman, Cathy Newman, Mobeen Azhar, Robin Ince and so many more. There are 60+ recordings just from this year, including Communion and panel conversations.
Also… you can now access our entire archive of talks recordings via our festival app. If you’ve already got the 2026 app, just head to your app store and update it to the latest version, to be able to see the talks. If you’ve not got the 2026 app, then better late than never. You can download it for free now and enjoy the talks too.
So whether you missed the talk you really wanted to hear because it clashed with three other things you really wanted to hear, or you’d simply like to go back without sitting cross-legged on the floor for an hour, dive right in.
In total, our archive has more than 1,000 sessions’ worth of insight, provocation, imagination (and the occasional magnificent tangent) dating all the way back to 1994.
Think of it as Greenbelt for your ears. No tent or wellies required.
For now, as we regroup and recharge, thank you. For coming. For caring. For making Greenbelt somewhere to believe in and belong to once again. And for giving Boughton the sumptuous send-off it deserved.