The Green Man Podcast Green Man Festival

Nuha Ruby Ra played all the instruments herself on her second EP 'Machine Like Me', which landed earlier this year: just one example of her formidable autodidactic spirit. Winner of our Green Man Rising competition back in 2020, her raw, inventive sound is informed by the creative freedoms of post-punk and free jazz, and she's no stranger to the stage, having spent 2022 supporting Yard Act, Warmduscher, King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard and Viagra Boys. An unpredictable delight, her live show is something to behold. 

Nuha catches up with her pal H. Hawkline. The Welsh icon who returns to Green Man with more bitter-sweet magic than ever before. A tireless collaborator whose recent works include fellow Heavenly label-mates Katy J Pearson and Cate Le Bon, H. Hawkline (aka Huw Gwynfryn Evans), is a fearless leader of leisurely psych-folk and the lyrically absurd, divine, and profound. 

Many have said that multi-award Norwegian comedian Ingrid Dahle is the best Norwegian import since oil. She is what you call a ‘good egg', and as a big fan of the people on this island, thinks there is something gloriously funny about the British. 

Ingrid chats with fellow comedian Colin Hoult, star of Netflix's Afterlife. Following a sell-out, award nominated run of The Death of Anna Mann, years playing characters and a mind bending ADHD diagnosis, Colin back as himself - being Colin.


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Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions. His book The Full English became an instant Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, and Stuart's previous bestsellers include Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas. He hosts a show for BBC Radio 6 Music on weekends. He can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie. Here he is in conversation with Talking Shop curator Laura Barton.
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Did you wander down to the pine woods behind the Walled Garden this year? There, you could explore the narrative of a fake cowboy town inside Welsh visual artist Kathyrn Ashill's new commission Gunsmoke City. The work is based on a real Gunsmoke City in the Swansea Valleys village of Seven Sisters - an unlikely setting for the masculine idyll of the Wild West. Themes of the frontier and escapism are pushed through the imagery in the film and the set. Moving-image depicts Drag Kings playing the leading cowboy figures, a tongue in cheek critique of the genre of the Western and gender norms, and the work incorporates hand-painted animation. Gunsmoke City is commissioned with thanks to GS Artists Swansea. Kathryn chats to creative producer Cathy Boyce about bringing the work to the festival site, and visual arts producer Lexi Stevens tells us how she supports artists at Green Man. 

Acclaimed British filmmaker Carol Morley (The Falling, Dreams of a Life) tells Cinedrome curator Jason Solomons about her new film ‘Artist Typist Pirate King’. This dark and funny road movie starring Kelly Macdonald as Sandra and the wonderful Monica Dolan as overlooked artist Audrey Amiss. 

Green Man Rising finalists and Cardiff noise creators Hyll chat to comedian Jonny Williams. Calling their sound "shambolic chaos", the Welsh language rock band formed around 2016. They've gained a reputation for their catchy melodies and explosive, energetic live sets, leaving a trail of sweat, smashed sticks, and scorched earth in their wake. 


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Ed Easton, Kath Hughes and Adam Drake from sketch supergroup Tarot sit down with comedian Esyllt Sears. Come learn life lessons from five people still doing sketch in their thirties. The Guardian's 6th best show of 2022. One of the best reviewed shows of Edinburgh 2022. Sell-out runs in Edinburgh and London. Chortle's No. 1 show of 2019 and stars of their own Radio 4 sketch show, Soundbleed. 

Christian Lee Hutson starts his new album Quitters with a laugh. In this follow up to his ANTI records debut, Beginners, Hutson moves away from the focus on growing up to the dread and complications of growing older. Produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, the album conjures up a California filled with the fuzzy haze of a dream, and the half-remembered moments of a forgotten life. 

Backstage at the Walled Garden, Christian meets Vermont trio THUS LOVE, who have a once-in-a-generation kind of magnetism that comes from deep-rooted companionship, and a commandeering approach to post-rock with a pop-leaning drool. There's a gift to creating anarchy subtly, and THUS LOVE have it mastered. 

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Four magnificent minds from Einstein's Garden come together for a big green chat.
Climate scientist Professor Mary Gagen often gets asked, what can individuals do to help the planet? She wades through the politics of pollution, to talk about how to make environmental decisions without being overwhelmed.
Hannah Bland is from Possible, a charity that exists to engage people in climate action with a can-do attitude and infectious optimism for a cleaner, fairer future.
Kofi and Arthur are some of the clever folk on the team at UCell, who provide the hydrogen cell power for the Omni Tent in Einstein's Garden. UCell lift the lid on the science behind complex green technologies, from batteries and fuel cells to supercapacitors and solar wind power.


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Marchelle Farrell is a writer, medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and has spent 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. Marchelle talks (to Isabel Berwick) about her book "Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Country Garden".
Harriet Gibsone began her career as a runner for MTV before becoming a music journalist at cult noughties free-press The Fly, and Guardian columnist. As a self-professed creep, she lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Harriet talks (to Michelle Kambasha) about her new memoir "Is This OK? One woman's search for connection online".
Both conversations recorded at the Talking Shop.
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