For the series finale of the Green Man Podcast 2024 please enjoy Huw Stephens chatting to Jude Rogers recorded live at the Talking Shop this August.

Huw Stephens broadcasts on BBC Radio 6 Music on his daily drivetime show, guest presents on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live and hosts weekly shows in both English and Welsh on BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru. He co-founded the Welsh Music Prize and Cardiff's Sŵn Festival. His new book, Wales: 100 Records, offers a multifarious encyclopedia of Welsh music, from Tom Jones and Bonnie Tyler, to Manic Street Preachers and Super Furry Animals, via Dafydd Iwan, Cate Le Bon, Gwenno, and Underworld, bringing us a vivid portrait of the irreverent spirit of this country.

Jude Rogers is the author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes our Lives, an arts and culture journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and others, makes radio programmes for BBC Radio, and runs arts projects. She moved back to Wales in 2016 thanks to her love of the Green Man Festival, which she has attended since 2005, where she's interviewed the likes of Shirley Collins and John Cale, and co-run the Saturday quiz in recent years.

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A joyous return to the fields of Green Man 2024 with none other than festival MD Fiona Stewart herself. She is joined by former royal nanny and keen fisher Tiggy Pettifer, to discuss the River Usk that runs along the Green Man site, and the importance of conservation efforts needed in Wales.

Then we rejoin comic and Welsh wonder Esyllt Sears, who spends Sunday afternoon at Green Man meeting Little Amal, the 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child, and a global symbol of human rights. Amal has travelled to over 166 towns, this is her first time in Wales, and she not only led the Little Folk parade but also joined the crowds for the burning of the Green Man at the festival's close.

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As we come towards the end of our 2024 series, we’re taking things up a notch with Manchester band Maruja, known for going hell-for-leather in their punk jazz vigour, joined in our studio (read: tent) by Big Special, whose working-class anger melds with anthemic punchy pop, and left crowds reeling at their Sunday night Rising stage headline set.

And then it’s time to get lost in the world of Welsh myth and legend, exploring the relationship between the magic of old and the technology of new. Megan Broadmeadow’s exhibition in the woods, Dewiniath (or Sorcery) mixes AI and superstition, and she’s joined in conversation by fellow visual artist Angela Davies, whose work Aequus uses a lido in north Wales to question constructs of space and greener energy solutions.

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Tomiwa Olowade is a British Nigerian writer and critic.

In his debut book ‘This Is Not America’, he looks at how a split away from American views on race and identity might help build an anti-racist agenda in Britain. 

Here he speaks to journalist and author Jude Rogers.

Conversation recorded at the Talking Shop 2024.

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Smokin’ Jo is the only female DJ to have won DJ Magazine’s DJ of the Year Award, and stands as a pioneer of the 90s dance scene. She has gigged all over the world, from Ibiza to Miami, China to Brazil, and collaborated with many major figures in music, film and fashion. Her memoir, You Don’t Need a Dick to DJ, tells of a childhood spent in a children’s home, the elation, euphoria and community she found in the burgeoning acid house scene, drink, drugs, and the misogyny, racism, prejudice and homophobia she encountered in the course of her phenomenally successful career.

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Once more unto the fields of joy we go, as we join Olli Dutton of Duty Disco, the late night Green Man institution, in conversation with pillars of the festival scene Deptford Northern Soul Club, and from New York to Crickhowell-via-London, electro-punk disco connoisseurs Baba Ali. Between them they all know a thing or two about staying up late, and share some fond Green Man after dark memories.

Then we wander across the green fields to catch up with Jason Solomons at the wonderful Cinedrome tent. He’s chatting to director Janis Pugh about her musical romantic comedy based in north Wales, Chuck Chuck Baby.

To round off this episode, we hand you over to some of the rising stars of the audio world, the young people who've taken part in this year's Somewhere Podcasting workshop.

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Ash Kenazi returns to the Babbling Tongues stage for 2024 bringing the same humour, perspective and drama for which he has become cherished. Host of the podcast The Pink Room, Ash has spoken to the likes of Self Esteem, Mac De Marco and Ezra Furman on issues ranging from queer experiences in the music industry to the dangers of huffing poppers.

Here, Ash sits down for a sgwrs with our fearless leader, festival managing director Fiona Stewart. They cover a lot of ground in their time together, from her early years dressing drag queens in the infamous Black Cap in Camden, to her innate connection to wales, to running our favourite - and BBC Radio 6Music listeners' festival of the year - the Green Man. 

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Joe Boyd is the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, R.E.M., Fairport Convention, ¡Cubanismo!, Toots and the Maytals, Toumani Diabaté, Taj Mahal and numerous others. He founded and ran the Hannibal label for twenty years. His film productions include Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace. His memoir, White Bicyles: Making Music in the 1960s, was published in 2006 to wide critical-acclaim. Boyd’s latest work, And The Roots of Rhythm Remain: The Story of Global Music, is a definitive study of the genre, a culmination of a lifetime travelling the globe and immersing himself in music. It reveals how personalities, events and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio are as colourful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, rhythm and blues and rock ‘n’ roll would never have happened if it weren’t for the notes and rhythms emanating from over the horizon.

Laura Barton is a writer and broadcaster, specialising in music. She writes for a range of publications including The Guardian, Uncut and Prospect, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, where alongside her series’ Notes on Music and Notes on a Musical Island, she has written and presented documentaries on everything from Shakespeare to confidence, via rivers, roadtrips and reproductive rights. She runs the Talking Shop stage at Green Man festival, and moonlights in A&R, signing artists such as Self Esteem, Let’s Eat Grandma, and Cigarettes After Sex. Her next book, Sad Songs, is a memoir of music and sadness. 

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Under the green canopy of the towering tree next to the podcast tent, Welsh comedian and podcaster extraordinaire Esyllt Sears chats to Irish folk legend and multi-instrumentalist John Francis Flynn, just before his performance on the Walled Garden on Sunday. 

Then we pop across to the other side of the festival, joining broadcaster Jason Solomons backstage at the Cinedrome with Mercury Prize winner Adrian Utley from Portishead, there to present the remaster of their live album Roseland that turned 25 this year. 

And finally we join drag sensation and Wishbone host Dolly Trolley exploring all things Green Man Workshops, and giving us a peek behind the curtain at the festival’s newest and most secret stage - think raunchy performances and cocktails to match! 

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Ahead of their Far Out Stage headline slot, William and Jim Reid joined their co-writer, critic and radio host Ben Thompson, to discuss their memoir Never Understood: The Story of the Jesus and Mary Chain. A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, it is the story of how the Reid Brothers travelled from their working-class East Kilbride roots to form one of Britain’s greatest guitar bands. 

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