{"id":31270,"date":"2026-09-26T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=31270"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:55:04","slug":"the-greenbelt-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=31270","title":{"rendered":"The Greenbelt gift &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Greenbelt&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tents are all gone now. The stages are all packed down. The grass is getting the chance to be grass again (and let&#8217;s be honest, the deluge helped). But we\u2019re still carrying the whole thing around with us &#8211; in all the best ways.<br \/>\nWhat 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..<br \/>\nWe hope you\u2019re recovered\/recovering. But if you\u2019re still in denial, today\u2019s Dispatches comes with a few ways to wander back into the fields again.<br \/>\n<strong>We really are letting it all go<br \/>\n<\/strong>Let\u2019s begin with our leaving present to you. We\u2019re making our entire archive of talks completely free to listen to, download and share \u2013 including our 2026 recordings.<br \/>\nDive 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.<br \/>\nAlso&#8230; you can now access our entire archive of talks recordings via our festival app. If you&#8217;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&#8217;ve not got the 2026 app, then better late than never.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/PzMZpA8neCg?e=a2de8720cc&amp;c2id=bbceb7e495553777b17aae86e1c9ef4d&amp;m=C5FJj0ekdVM6cJRGogZZ9PMcAeHC5zzRd9ua9kUWoMjpVZV26YLBKLhfxKc=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">You can download it for free now and enjoy the talks too<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo whether you missed the talk you really wanted to hear because it clashed with three other things you really wanted to hear, or you\u2019d simply like to go back without sitting cross-legged on the floor for an hour, dive right in.<br \/>\nIn total, our archive has more than 1,000 sessions\u2019 worth of insight, provocation, imagination (and the occasional magnificent tangent) dating all the way back to 1994.<br \/>\nThink of it as Greenbelt for your ears. No tent or wellies required.<br \/>\nFor 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"yiv3107322865mcnButton\" title=\"Explore this year's talks (and more)\" href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/z2NG0GF9bCR?e=a2de8720cc&amp;c2id=bbceb7e495553777b17aae86e1c9ef4d&amp;m=Qnt24hwEMaAqisFL7p2oRXCPtSlhwFlzoo-5kgp7e4Uc9s0sSr5_eTuInjY=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">Explore this year&#8217;s talks (and more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from Greenbelt&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; &nbsp; The tents are all gone now. The stages are all packed down. The grass is getting the chance to be grass again (and let&#8217;s be honest, the deluge helped). But we\u2019re still carrying the whole thing around with us &#8211; in all the best ways. What a time we had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31271,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31270\/revisions\/31271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}