A glimpse into some of the fun had at Green Man's Little Folk this year. The Flying Seagull Project share how their project started, as well as their aims to bring a little light to darker times. Familia De Noche discuss how they brought 'Clown School' to Little Folk field this year.

The Flying Seagull Project was founded in 2008 to bring happiness to children and communities in crisis, marginalised or suffering. The international charity currently has teams of entertainers, musicians, magicians and play specialists engaged in arts workshops, music and dance lessons, circus shows and clown doctoring all over the world.

Together they’ve spread love, light and laughter to more than 350,000 children in hospitals, orphanages, deaf/blind schools and refugee camps around the world.

Familia de la Noche is a female led award winning theatre company based in Wales. We make shows that are funny, beautiful, raucous and moving; using puppets, clowning, sound and music. Above all we love stories; we’ve adapted old ones and crafted new ones, always with a Familia twist. 

Delve into the mystical world of Charlotte Church, like you've never seen her before. In this part meditation, part interview with Huw Stephens at the Talking Shop on Friday afternoon at Green Man 2025, Charlotte takes us on a journey of reconnection to our breath, with nature, and with her healing retreat centre - The Dreaming - in the depths of the Elan Valley, Wales.

Charlotte Church is an award-winning singer, composer and activist. She is also the founder and lead practitioner at Welsh wellness retreat The Dreaming and, for many years, has used her platform for activism, passionate about environmental issues and human rights. In 2019 she set up 'The Awen Project', a charity that helps establish free-to-attend democratic learning communities for children. Join Charlotte at Green Man for an interactive introduction to The Dreaming, including a conversation with broadcaster Huw Stephens and a taster of the retreat’s programme, led by Charlotte.

What do you get if you invite 2 comedians to Einstein's Garden…? A rather joyous walk-around exploring covering chicken's personalities and renewable energy.

The Green Man podcast team take a walk beyond the Helter Skelter to the secret Wishbone tent to speak to drag artists Dolly Trolley and Rhys' Pieces about their performance at Green Man 2025.

Broadside Hacks find sanctuary under a shady tree to discuss the evolution of their tribute to Bob Dylan.

Adam Flood is an award-winning comedian and (failed) musician. The Times ‘Top 3 Rising Stars of the Fringe’ 2023, Most Outstanding Show in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023. The Stoke-on-Trent comic blends standup with sounds and music to deliver everyday observations and existential malaise.

Find her up and down the aisles or going rusty upturned in a ditch, Dolly Trolley is a Yorkshire-born drag queen based in London who is completely bonkers, utterly delightful and always at 100mph. Now entering her ninth year of drag, she’s become a household name of the UK drag and cabaret scene, known for high energy acts, fierce dance moves, hilarious parodies, and rip-roaring hosting. She’s a versatile performer full of surprises, commonly reviewed: “I’m exhausted just from watching”. She’s a regular feature of the UK’s top cabarets, been featured on BBC Breakfast, taught celebs how to walk in heels on SkyOne, and performed in theatres, stages and festivals across Europe. Dolly is the world’s leading drag fitness instructor (self-titled but unchallenged) with her famous Drag Aerobics classes, reaching online global fame during covid lockdowns.

Rhys’ Pieces is a London based, international, award-winning queer performance artist, drag performer, cabaret producer and burlesque artist who has been making waves in the city's vibrant arts scene for the past 8 years. Rhys’ Pieces uses their art to explore issues of gender, sexuality, identity and race creating work that is both political and fun. You're going to want a Piece of Rhys.

It feels like the year of Bob, with Timothée Chalamet appearing as the grizzled luminary on the big screen — and London-based collective, record label, and promoter Broadside Hacks are capitalising on that with their Dylan tribute event, with Clara Mann, Spitzer Space Telescope and special guests in the mix. Known for encouraging a faithful yet freeing new wave of folk music that repurposes tradition, Broadside Hacks are no strangers to honouring artists with special themed events: The Pogues and legendary Soho folk club Les Cousins have also been celebrated by their eclectic gang of musicians and contributors.

We've got a real cross section of Green Man Festival in this episode. Fresh from opening the Far Out stage on Thursday, Heartworms sits down for an intimate look into her inspirations and how she prepares for going on stage. The wonderful Last Laugh comedians Nicola Mantallios and Kerris Gibson share how important it is to be authentic on stage, and the diversity of the GM comedy tent. A firm favourite of this podcast, we head to the Cinedrome where film critic, and organiser of the stage speaks to award winning director, and former band member of The Beta Band, John MacLean.

It’s not often you stumble across a budding young post-punk artist with a predilection for Spitfire planes. Enter Heartworms, aka London-based artist and producer Jojo Orme. Her debut Dan Carey-produced album, Glutton For Punishment, which landed early this year, fused early 1980s spiky synth pop, gothic noir, and industrial dance punk, running on themes of international and internal war. But despite the career take-off, she still finds time to volunteer at Hendon’s RAF Museum, cleaning and maintaining those beloved Spitfires.

North East powerhouse, Nicola Mantalios brings her energetic storytelling to Green Man 2025. Her performances are packed with a perfect mix of chaotic energy, dark wit and the kind of brilliant honesty you'll be thinking about long after she's left the stage.

Kerris Gibson describes herself as being like a cinnamon bun that's been dropped many times (and that one weirdo would eat). She uses her standup material for therapy and her therapy session notes for standup. Twice Felt Nowt New Act of the Year Finalist, Kerris is also an improviser (Spontaneous Wrecks) and has had sketches showcased at Sunderland Film Festival and BBC Radio.

The long awaited follow up to Slow West, John McLean puts a Samurai puppeteer, caught up with a local crime gang, in Scotland, for a thrilling genre mash up in 'Tornado'.

Feeling inspired to start a band? Come to the Mountain Stage, where Ishmael Ensemble & Los Campesinos! reflect on their careers, the people who have championed them along the way, and how to get your music out there. We then wander through Einstein's Garden and up to Cinedrome where the host of the Cinedrome Jason Solomons talks to Adrian Utley about the film 137.

Pete Cunningham cut his teeth as a teenage DJ playing at raves in quarries, before sampling some of the finest club culture his home city of Bristol has had to offer. He’s a saxophonist as well as a DJ and producer, and since 2017 has led eclectic collective Ishmael Ensemble to increasingly epic heights. Last year’s Rituals upped the ante with a generous use of drones and drums you might hear on a metal record, and the result: vast, textured Massive Attack-style soundscapes that will sound right at home in the Welsh mountains

Cardiff indie rockers Los Campesinos! met during freshers’ week at university and seven albums on, achieved their first Top 20 album, All Hell — self-produced and self-released and with a total marketing spend of £190.86. They’re true champions of the independent DIY spirit and when they’re not at their day jobs, they’re making songs about “local football, doomed romances, and the fall of capitalism” that are made to be danced to.

An exploration in free thought and improvisation, 137 is the combined sonic force of Adrian Utley (Portishead), Larry Stabbins, Jim Barr (Get the Blessing) & Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear, Patti Smith). Brutal noise interlaced with meditative rhythms, ferocious yet fragile, 137 will venture into the world of expanded cinema playing in symbiosis with avant-garde experimental film.

*This episode contains discussion of personal experiences, including references to sexual abuse, which some listeners may find distressing. The views and opinions expressed are those of the guest, based on their own experiences, and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers or this podcast. No allegations are made against any named individual. Listener discretion is advised.*

The light still breaks through each morning. That’s the driving sentiment on You Are The Morning, the debut album from trans woman and Manchester-based singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t. Its title is dedicated to queer friendship, which she says saved her life. The first UK signee on Saddest Factory Records, the album was produced by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Jasmine and her band travelled to L.A. to record at Sound City Studios. It was made across 12 days in a highly collaborative and emotional process, and because Jasmine sees her songs as fluid and ever-changing, the recordings carry that free and spontaneous spirit. Jasmine considers her album as a call to action for a brighter future for trans people.

Ash Kenazi is a London artist who has honed his craft after years of experimentation, finally evolving into their true form through writing that draws from sounds that have shaped their experience - a youthful chorister, an indie drummer and a queer dancer. Known for his work as a member of Happyness, drag royalty to the indie scene and podcast host, Ash has built a strong following across the UK through supporting the likes of Self Esteem, CSS, Jess Winter and Dreamwife with his impressive counter-tenor vocals, queer storytelling and magnetic stage presence.

Icons in their respective fields and admirers of one another's work, Stewart Lee and Richard Dawson discuss their creative processes as well as what they're up to at this years' festival.

Stewart Lee delivered an extended set at Green Man 2025 ("world's greatest living stand-up" - The Times)

An a cappella song about a man in the 1500s in Hexham, a 41-minute track, albums that channel the voices of past, present, and future: you never know what’s coming next from Northumbrian folk artist and storyteller Rich(ard) Dawson. His eighth album End of the Middle landed very recently, and he’s also dabbled in Finnish experimental rock, North Country blues, and jazzy psych-folk, raiding museum archives and releasing vinyl that plays inside-out.

After their Friday afternoon performance on the Mountain Stage, which saw members of the crowd giving their best shot at gospel, Annie and daughter Anjessica reflect on their show - and which wannabe gospel singer they liked the best. We're also joined by Last Laugh comedians Daman Bamrah + Gavin Osborn. Daman gives an insight into MCing to a festival crowd, while Gavin talks about 'playing the hits'.

A flamboyantly-dressed family affair — frontwoman Annie with her daughters singing backup, her husband on guitar, and sons on bass and drums — Annie & The Caldwells hail from the Deep South and harness the power of live gospel music like nobody can. They recorded their debut album Can’t Lose My (Soul) in a Mississippi church, a mere forty years after they started performing.

Stand out British-Sikh comedian, Daman Bamrah uses his instant likability, wry humour and a lot of heart to captivate audiences, and is best known for his cultural observations on his Indian heritage, topical writing and imaginative storytelling.

Gavin Osborn is a 47 year old singer-songwriter with six solo albums under his belt, having spent over 20 years touring the UK, Europe and Australia with his brand of witty storytelling folk songs. Familiar to listeners of BBC 6Music and Radio 4, Gavin’s tours and shows include support slots for the likes of Belle & Sebastian and Frank Turner.

Wow. What. A. Festival. Let’s hit the ground running in ’25 with a kick off to match the energy of the weekend. Mercury Prize winners and Far Out Stage headliners English Teacher get chatty outside the podcast tent with gothic folk New York duo Sex Week, chatting first time festival moments and the best grub for a weekend in the fields.
Then we join Jason Solomons, head of the Cinedrome for a chat with none other than Martin Parr, chatting about the new documentary by Lee Shulman’s about his life and work.
With plenty of bangers to come, get locked in for episodes featuring acts and moments from across a blisteringly fun weekend in Bannau Brycheiniog.

Sex Week: New York duo Richard Orofino and Pearl Amanda Dickson bonded over a playlist made for a friend’s road trip from Colorado to Omaha. The dulcet tones of Baxter Dury, Wolf Alice, Liz Phair and more laid the foundations for a musical collaboration that takes in the humble joy of the mixtape, the films of David Lynch and David Cronenberg, fat cats, gothic folk, gory detail and vulnerable homespun confession.

English Teacher have captured life in Britain like no other band in recent years. It’s no wonder they won last year’s Mercury Prize for their debut album This Could Be Texas. The Leeds band, who first played on the Rising stage back in 2022, match meandering climbing bass with instances of folk, prog, electronica, and all-out vigour, underpinned by frontwoman Lily Fontaine’s impressionistic, conversational lyrics: musically adventurous, socially observant, and live, an emotional force to be reckoned with.

Introduced by director Lee Shulman and the man himself, Martin Parr, join us for a focus into the career and work of an artist and legendary photographer.

In the final instalment of the Green Man 2025 preview, we're joined by Jimmy Watkins from Running Punks, who invites you to swap the cider, put on your trainers and head for a brisk morning jog around the Glanusk Estate.

Jimmy Watkins founded Running Punks in 2019. Having broken the Welsh 800m indoor record in 2006, he made the final at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow. His life was very different a year later, when he started a band and followed a very different lifestyle – the life of athletics was behind him. However, just like in 2006, he couldn't outrun the runner! He needed to make his way back – the rock and roll lifestyle wasn't for him. Fast forward to 2025 and we have our very own music-come-running club! Don't forget to pack your trainers!

Fiona Stewart is the owner of Green Man Festival. Since 2006, she has been bringing the industry's best musicians and performers to the valleys of Bannau Brycheiniog. She is a legend in her game. But what she also focuses on is the Green Man Trust, which ensures the values of the festival have a far-reaching impact beyond the weekend in August.

Anna Thomas is an award-winning comedian, originally hailing from Carmarthenshire, South Wales. She wrote and starred in Lady Bigfoot, a short film that premiered on BBC One Wales and became the most-watched comedy short on BBC iPlayer in 2023.