Peace is Possible

Satish Kumar | 10am-10.30am | Main Stage

Peace activist Satish Kumar opens the festival with an inspiring and deeply moving call for peace with each other, with nature and with ourselves. Satish’s words provide wisdom, hope and joy when we need it most.

Sunday Papers

Broadcasters and environmentalists debate the topical news stories of the day in relation to the planet, climate, nature and our wellbeing | 10.30am-12pm | Main Stage

Moderated by Financial Times’ Features Editor Henry Mance, confirmed participants include renowned environmentalist and campaigner Sir Jonathon Porritt, zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke, with more names to be announced.

Being Old and Learning to Love it!

Prue Leith | 12pm-1pm | Main Stage

Journalist Eleanor Mills interviews broadcaster, restauranteur, writer, educator and cook Prue Leith on the trials and taboos of growing older – along with its unexpected joys. Sometimes serious, often funny, and always engaging, Prue speaks with refreshing honesty about life as a modern woman in her eighties. Nothing is off limits: from beauty, staying active and finding fame on The Great British Bake Off, to friendship, family, and the occasional regret. She will tackle the big questions we all have about getting older – about time running out, dealing with grief, and her passionate belief in assisted dying – as well as discussing finding love, the right time to retire, fashion, travel, and gardening. From founding her world-renowned cookery academies to writing food columns, cookbooks and novels and presenting The Great British Bake Off, Prue Leith reflects on living life to the full.

I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You.

Miranda Hart | 2pm-3pm | Main Stage

Acclaimed actor, comedian and writer Miranda Hart explores the lessons she has learned on her journey of living with a debilitating illness in this interview about her book with broadcaster Hannah MacInnes. She discusses all the treasures she has learnt that have led her to be able to live freer and more joyfully despite her illness … She’ll also be willing to be posed any questions and just wants to have SUCH FUN with you all!

The Power of Classical Music

Alexander Armstrong | 3pm-4pm | Main Stage

Broadcaster Susannah Simons interviews actor, comedian and broadcaster Alexander Armstrong about his passion for classical music. Hosting a popular show on Classic FM, Armstrong shares his lifelong love for classical music and how he wants to demystify it and make it accessible, believing in its profound emotional power, its ability to enrich lives, and its potential to connect with audiences. He grew up immersed in classical music, finding solace and excitement in orchestras from a young age, and continues to champion it through broadcasting and singing.

Food, Deliciousness and Sustainability

Tommi Miers | 4pm-5pm | Main Stage

Renowned cook, food writer, TV presenter and restaurateur, Tommi Miers is an advocate for delicious food grown and produced in a way that benefits both nature and mankind. Famous for winning the 2005 MasterChef and co-founding the award-winning Mexican restaurant group Wahaca, known for its mouth-watering dishes and ethical approach, Tommi Miers, OBE, has a monthly recipe column in The Guardian and has authored nine cookbooks.

In conversation with Clover Stroud. Floating Home: Lessons from a Life Less Ordinary

Adam Lind | 10am-11am | Lake Stage

After losing his father, Adam Lind made a decision that changed everything. He spent five years hitchhiking across twenty-six countries – learning from the people who picked him up, sleeping under open skies, and discovering the extraordinary hidden in the everyday. Then Lind made a narrowboat his home, journeying on the UK’s waterways. In this talk, full of wisdom and humour, he gives insights into how any one of us can cultivate a sense of freedom and calm in our daily lives. Sharing what it means to live fully and the importance of human connection and community, he is joined on stage by bestselling author and journalist, Clover Stroud, who muses how home can be a feeling as much as a place.

Art for Children

Yuval Zommer | 10am-11am | Lake Stage

The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature’s Clues and Signs

Tristan Gooley | 12pm-1pm | Lake Stage

The self-styled ‘Natural Navigator’ explains how to find your way using nature’s clues, sharing his expertise on signs from the sun, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather. Autumn is a time for reading leaves, deciphering scents and investigating fungi. Spring is the time of wildflower signs, unique cloud shapes and curious animal behaviour. Summer is a time of coastal clues, astronomical extremes and secret grass patterns. In winter, we learn to read snow, deepen our star knowledge and use rare methods to find clues in overlooked places, including indoors. In this talk, Gooley shows how we continually miss these signs, because we don’t know how and where to look.

Bitch: What does it mean to be Female?

Lucy Cooke | 1pm-2pm | Lake Stage

Women aren’t the only victims of misogyny. For centuries female animals have been marginalised and misunderstood by the scientific patriarchy. The bitches in Bitch overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. In this revealing talk with fellow author and zoologist Jackie Higgins, Lucy Cooke discusses the animals and scientists who are reinventing the female of the species – changing how you think about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals.

Love is a Toad: Exploring our Relationship with Nature

Lucy Lapwing | 2-3pm | Lake Stage

Over the course of a year, wildlife campaigner and writer Lucy Lapwing roamed across the UK, traversing meadows, bogs and hedgerows with her fellow nature enthusiasts, in order to dig down into our relationship with the natural world. In this interview with author Nicola Chester, Lapwing describes the bucketfuls of wildlife she encountered – blackbird and oak, slugs and puffballs, waterlilies, dung beetles and toads – and describes the emotions they provoke. As well as awe, curiosity and a sense of community, Lapwing struggles with guilt and fear as the wildlife around us declines and disappears.

Manifest Your True Essence: Clear Your Blocks, Find Your Joy, Live Your Truth

Estelle Bingham | 3pm-4pm | Lake Stage

In this talk, energetic healer Estelle Bingham explores the transformative power of the heart with wisdom rooted in both ancient traditions and modern science. Bingham has spent more than 20 years working to support and reconnect people with their own power to heal, manifest and experience joy in their life. She will discuss ways to clear blocks, embrace truth and manifest your highest potential, and she will take audience questions in the second half of the talk.  

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom and Marginalised Peoples Teach Us

Joycelyn Longdon | 4pm-5pm | Lake stage

Environmental justice researcher Joycelyn Longdon talks to journalist Tiffanie Darke about how indigenous wisdom and marginalized communities offer pathways to environmental action beyond traditional activism. Using stories from around the world, from the UK to the US, Iran, Brazil, Ghana and Ethiopia, Joycelyn highlights themes like rage, innovation, healing and care. She showcases the wonder of the natural world and inspires us to view climate action as a shared goal rather than an individual burden.

Ghosts of the Farm: the true story of two pioneering women farmers.

Nicola Chester | 5pm–6pm | Lake stage

Bestselling author Nicola Chester talks to regenerative farmer Sarah Langford about the story of two women who aspire to be farmers in the same fields, 60-80 years apart. Discovering the diary of a pioneering woman who bought a derelict farm during wartime, Nicola recounts a tantalising succession of coincidences with her own farming endeavours. From horse-drawn plough and steam driven threshing machines, to tractors and driving the first combine harvester in her village, Nicola confronts her own farming ghosts, prejudices and barriers, and the loss of community, wildlife and connection with the land and asks questions of the past, and its impact on the future. Why was the farmgate shut on these energetic, enterprising women after WWII, and what are the consequences? Given the importance of women to thriving communities, would farming and the countryside be in a much better place, if women had continued to lead?

Love, Anger and Betrayal: the story of Just Stop Oil

Jonathon Porritt | 6pm-7pm | Lake stage

The climate crisis is deepening fast, with terrifying predictability. While governments delay, a new generation of young campaigners have risen up to demand change. Many of them now face imprisonment for peaceful protest. In this talk, renowned environmentalist Jonathon Porritt describes the stories, fears and hopes of the young Just Stop Oil activists. Driven by a fierce belief in intergenerational justice, Jonathon Porritt unpicks the urgent moral questions raised by climate breakdown and civil disobedience.