5x15
676 episodes - English - Latest episode: 29 days ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings"A pleasingly simple concept... one of the best things I've come upon in the last six months" (The Telegraph - 'Best Podcasts')
5 speakers, 15 minutes each. Script free and against a less-than-precise clock, some of the world's leading figures in the arts and sciences deliver talks about their enduring achievements, wildest moments or deepest passions. It's inspiring, informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining. Based in London but making forays to Sydney, New York and Milan, 5x15 has featured Joanna Lumley, Brian Eno, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jung Chang, Ruby Wax and Alain de Botton.
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From a radical survivalist childhood to Cambridge- Tara Westover
March 27, 2018 16:02 - 15 MBTara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days in rural Idaho with radical survivalist Mormon parents. At 17, she decided to educate herself as a means of escape, and earned a PhD in Intellectual History and Political Thought from Cambridge. Her book Educated is an account of her childhood and education. Recorded at The Tabernacle in London in March 2018. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no s...
Cultures at Risk - Wade Davis
March 27, 2018 15:55 - 19.5 MBWade Davis is talking about cultures at risk. Wade Davis is an anthropologist, writer, photographer and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Recorded at The Tabernacle in London in March 2018. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: http://5x15stories.com Twitter: ht...
Everything She Knows About Love - Dolly Alderton
March 14, 2018 13:34 - 14.4 MBDolly Alderton tells us everything she knows about Love and talks about her book Everything I Know About Love at 5x15. Recorded at The Tabernacle on March 2018.
99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown
December 08, 2017 14:55 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBBest loved Private Eye satirist Craig Brown comes to 5x15 to show us 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
How to Resist - Matthew Bolton
December 08, 2017 14:53 - 13.6 MBMatthew Bolton of London Citizens talks about his new book How To Resist and the inspiring campaigns he has led for the London Living Wage and to help support collective action amongst lower paid workers in the UK. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15s...
The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee - Wellcome Book Prize 2017
December 08, 2017 14:31 - 43.3 MBSiddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem cell biologist, and a cancer geneticist. He is the author of The Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction and the Guardian First Book Award. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School. His laboratory has i...
The Tidal Zone - Sarah Moss - Wellcome Book Prize 2017
December 08, 2017 14:28 - 33.2 MBSarah Moss was educated at the University of Oxford and is currently professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of four other novels – Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2011, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children – and is the coauthor of Chocolate: A global history. She spent 2009–10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Iceland, and wrote an account of her time there, Names for the Sea: Strangers in ...
Mend the Living - Maylis de Kerangal - Wellcome Book Prize 2017
December 08, 2017 14:25 - 59.1 MBMaylis de Kerangal spent her childhood in Le Havre, France. Her novel Birth of a Bridge was the winner of the Prix Franz Hessel and Prix Médicis in 2010. Her novella Tangente vers l’est was the winner of the 2012 Prix Landerneau. Her fifth novel, Mend the Living, is a 24-hour whirlwind of death and life, from fatal crash to life-saving operation was shortlist for the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
When Breath Becomes Air - Jeevan Kalanithi - Wellcome Book Prize 2017
December 06, 2017 23:03 - 66 MBJeevan Kalanithi is a technologist, entrepreneur and brother of Paul Kalanithi, whose posthumous memoir When Breath Becomes Air is shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and writer. Recorded with the Wellcome Book Prize 2017. *** 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www....
Nice lurchers, are they Jewish? - Meg Rosoff
November 13, 2017 15:56 - 20.2 MBBest selling and critically acclaimed author of Jonathan Unleashed, Meg Rosoff, tells a hilarious story about her love of dogs at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
How Your Dog Sees The World - John Bradshaw
November 13, 2017 15:56 - 16.6 MBWhat would dogs ask for, if they knew how? John Bradshaw talks about In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
The Real World - James Massiah
November 09, 2017 17:20 - 16.6 MBThrough explosive writing and performance James Massiah is redefining the power of poetry. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Inside Vogue -Alexandra Shulman
November 09, 2017 17:20 - 12.5 MBThe former editor of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, talks about her 25 year career at the helm of the world's leading fashion magazine and shares her story of being inside and outside of Vogue. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.inst...
History of Britain in 21 women -Jenni Murray
November 09, 2017 17:20 - 16.8 MBWomen's Hour presenter, Dame Jenni Murray talks about her ground breaking book A History of Britain in 21 Women at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Friendship - Sarah Perry
November 09, 2017 17:20 - 14.5 MBSarah Perry, author of the best selling The Essex Serpent, tells a spellbinding story of friendship at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
The dissolving border between humans and machines - Mark O'Connell
November 09, 2017 17:20 - 14.1 MBMark O'Connell, a writer based in Dublin, on transhumanism and his encounters with a post-human future researching his book: To Be a Machine. This 5x15 podcast reveals the dissolving border between humans and machines. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5...
Washington Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge - Erica Wagner
November 09, 2017 17:16 - 13.1 MBErica Wagner, former literary editor of The Times, tells the extraordinary story of Washington Roebling and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Seize the Turbulence - Catherine Mayer
November 09, 2017 17:16 - 16.1 MBCatherine Mayer one of the founders of the Women's Equality Party, talks about seizing the moment of turbulence to create a more equal world. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Grenfell Tower Poem - Ben Okri
November 09, 2017 17:16 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBBooker Prize winning novelist and poet reflects in poetry on the tragedy of the fire at Grenfell Tower. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Britain's Shrinking State - Polly Toynbee
November 09, 2017 17:16 - 17.9 MBLegend of the left and progressive voice at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee talks about Britain's Shrinking State at 5x15. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Why I am no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
November 09, 2017 17:16 - 17.3 MBWriter and blogger Reni Eddo-Lodge talks about her acclaimed book Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race. She also hosts the About Race podcast which looks at the recent history that lead to the politics of today and features key voices from the last few decades of anti-racist activism. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 event...
Leaving Journalism to Teach - Lucy Kellaway
November 09, 2017 17:04 - 13.3 MBLucy Kellaway had a long and illustrious career as a leading journalist at the FT but in September of 2017 she packed it all in to become a maths teacher in an inner city London school. Recorded just after she started out in the classroom she tells the audience at 5x15 why she did it and about the highs- and some of the lows - of going back to school. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and...
Music and Poetry - Louis de Bernieres
November 09, 2017 17:04 - 17.6 MBLouis de Bernières, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer, with Captain Corelli's Mandolin winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel in 1994. His sixth novel, the acclaimed Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004. A Partisan's Daughter (2008) was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Notwithstanding...
Why we need strong female role models - Viv Groskop - 5x15 Bristol
October 27, 2017 13:37 - 20.4 MBViv Groskop has discovered the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back enough (A Month in the Country by Turgenev) or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov’s work). Viv will be offering us all some literary self-help, drawing on examples...
Help the living to honour the dead - Rupert Callender - 5x15 Bristol
October 27, 2017 13:34 - 23.5 MBRu and Claire Callender are ceremonial undertakers, who started The Green Funeral Company, covering Devon and Cornwall in 1999. Ru and Claire became undertakers, (they prefer the term to ‘Funeral Directors’ with its implied etiquette and control) after hearing about The Natural Death Centre charity, an organisation that sprung from the counterculture. Their training mainly consisted of reading The Natural Death Handbook and being influenced personally by punk, acid house and crop circles. Th...
The Greedy Queen - Dr Annie Gray - 5x15 Bristol
October 27, 2017 13:31 - 24.9 MBFood historian Annie Gray is a writer, broadcaster and consultant. She’s the resident food historian on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, and presented BBC 2’s Victorian Bakers and The Sweetmakers, both living history documentaries exploring social history through food. Her first book, The Greedy Queen: eating with Victoria is an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s best known monarchs, and had been called a culinary biography, the story of a woman, her stomach and all the edible wares of...
Performance poetry with Vanessa Kisuule - 5x15 Bristol
June 12, 2017 20:50 - 12.9 MBVanessa Kisuule is a writer, performer, burlesque artist and general empress of blag based in Bristol. She has won several slam titles including Farrago Schools Out Slam Champion 2010, Bang Said The Gun Award, Poetry Rivals 2011, Next Generation Slam 2012, Slambassadors 2010 and South West Hammer and Tongue Slam Champion 2012 and most recently The Roundhouse Slam 2014, Hammer and Tongue National Slam 2014 and the Nuoryican Poetry Slam in New York. She was the recipient of The Jerwood Micro ...
Is a woman with a passion for surface lacking in depth? - Sali Hughes - 5x15 Bristol
June 12, 2017 20:48 - 11.8 MBSali Hughes talks about how women with an interest in fashion and beauty are routinely presumed to be stupid, shallow and vain and why this is not only inherently sexist but wilfully ignorant of how human beings live and think. Sali Hughes is a journalist, author, broadcaster, Guardian, The Pool and Empire columnist and founder of the award-winning salihughesbeauty.com Recorded at 5x15 in Bristol in June 2017. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passio...
How to be a cheerful pessimist - Julian Baggini - 5x15 Bristol
June 12, 2017 20:42 - 14 MBWe live in troubled times where billions struggle every day and no one else is free from suffering. Gloomy though it sounds, pessimists have been shown to have a more realistic view of the world than optimists. But this need not be a recipe for depression. Philosopher Dr Julian Baggini will show how it is possible to be a cheerful pessimist, a cynical romantic, light in the darkness of the world. Recorded live at 5x15 Bristol in June 2017. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals t...
What is the future of food? - Rosie Boycott - 5x15 Bristol
April 27, 2017 14:04 - 10.1 MBRosie Boycott on the future of food. Rosie Boycott is a writer and broadcaster whose career has spanned the national media. She co-founded the feminism magazine Spare Rib in 1971, and went on to become the UK's first female editor of a British daily newspaper, the Independent on Sunday. She has also edited Esquire, The Independent, and The Express. She has appeared regularly on The Late Review (BBC2) and The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4), and written several books, including A Nice Girl Like Me an...
Revolutionary Ride - Lois Pryce - 5x15 Bristol
April 27, 2017 14:04 - 10.1 MBLois Pryce is an author, journalist and travel writer. She speaks about her 3000-mile solo motorcycle ride around Iran, which is the subject of her book, Revolutionary Ride. In 2003 Lois left her job at the BBC in London to ride twenty-thousand miles from Alaska to the tip of South America on a small dirt bike. Her book about this trip, Lois on the Loose, has been published throughout the world. In 2006 she rode the length of Africa, taking in the Sahara, the Congo and Angola, which resulted...
Dadland: A daughter's journey into her father's past - Keggie Carew - 5x15 Bristol
April 27, 2017 14:03 - 9.52 MBKeggie Carew on a daughter’s journey into her father’s past. A story of war and grief, jealousy and madness, mischief and fierce love. Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story and soon finds herself in a far more astonishing and consuming place than she had bargained for. Dadland is a manhunt. Keggie takes us on a spellbinding journey, in peace ...
One Cup of Tea Could Change Your Life - John-Paul Flintoff - 5x15 Bristol
April 27, 2017 14:03 - 9.93 MBJohn-Paul Flintoff, on how one cup of tea could change your life. This is a talk about how one cup of tea (or coffee) could change your life. We all want to make changes, both big and small, and often those changes start with a conversation. What makes some conversations special? How do you have a conversation that changes everything? Where do you even begin? Having worked for years as an interviewer, and trained as a performer and coach, John Paul Flintoff understands the power of conversa...
Being a culinary anthropologist - Anna Colquhoun - 5x15 Bristol
April 27, 2017 14:02 - 10.7 MBAnna Colquhoun is a cooking teacher, food consultant and writer with a fascination for the anthropology of food. Something of a food nerd, she has travelled far to research and write about her subject. Anna offers cooking classes in London, including popular bread-making and preserving workshops among others. Her supper club, the Secret Kitchen, is a convivial dinner at which people sit together for a surprise seasonal menu. Books include 'Eat Slow Britain' (Sawdays, 2010), the 'Riverford C...
Singing is just humming with your mouth open - Kate Dimbleby - 5x15 Bristol
February 19, 2017 20:03 - 23.2 MBComing from a broadcasting family with a mother who sang opera over breakfast, Kate has spent 20 years touring theatrical shows about other people’s voices and stories – hiding behind the smooth sophistication of Peggy Lee, the bold blues of Bessie Smith, the fragile tones of Dory Previn. But she always had another nagging voice in her head saying, “What’s my story and why aren’t I singing it?’ In this talk, she describes her path to finding her own voice by embracing vulnerability, singing w...
How do we build a world that works for everyone? - Kerry-Anne Mendoza - 5x15 Bristol
February 19, 2017 20:03 - 25.7 MBKerry-Anne Mendoza is Editor-in-Chief of The Canary (www.thecanary.co). She is known for creating one of the UK’s top independent political blogs (Scriptonite Daily), for authoring the best-seller 'Austerity', and for her Middle East reporting (notably Operation Protective Edge from Gaza through the Summer of 2014). Her passions are politics, economics and current affairs, which she examines with the basic question: “How do we build a world that works for everyone?” Growing up in working cl...
1,000 years of England's history - Dr. Matthew Green - 5x15 Bristol
February 19, 2017 20:02 - 23.3 MBA whirlwind tour through 1,000 years of England's history tracing the extraordinary impact of medieval wine, Tudor tobacco, Restoration chocolate and Georgian coffee. Hear the amazing story of how light-pink Gascon wine emerged as "the creator of the world's happiness" in the Middle Ages; how "the holy herb" fired the creativity of Shakespearean wits; how "the drink of the Gods", chocolate, corrupted an entire generation of aristocrats; and how "bitter Muhammedan gruel" inspired brilliant ide...
Unarmed black male -James Jones - 5x15 Bristol
February 19, 2017 19:53 - 20.3 MBAcclaimed documentary maker James Jones explores one of the most controversial and divisive issues in modern America. Last year young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers. James Jones has just spent six months in the South making a feature-length film for the BBC following the murder trial of a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager. He found a country more racially divided than it has been for decades and a justice syst...
The last act of love -Cathy Rentzenbrink - 5x15 Bristol
February 19, 2017 19:50 - 21.7 MBCathy Rentzenbrink is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir The Last Act of Love, which was shortlisted for The Wellcome Trust Prize and The Portico Prize. Her next book is A Manual for Heartache. She speaks and writes regularly on literacy, literature and everything in between and is Contributing Editor at The Bookseller. She tweets as @Cathyreadsbooks. Cathy will talk about her gradual and painful realisation that there are many and various fates worse than death, and how it wou...
On oversharing - Nimco Ali - 5x15 Bristol
September 21, 2016 20:22 - 9.25 MBNimco Ali is a British Somali feminist, social activist and prolific social media commentator. She is co-founder and director of Daughters of Eve, a survivor led organisation which has helped to transform the approach to ending female genital mutilation (FGM). Nimco has also worked on The Girl Generation: Together To End FGM campaign, which celebrates the Africa-led movement to end FGM in one generation. Here Nimko talks about oversharing: “I have spent the last few years talking very openly...
How Minecraft helped my son - Keith Stuart - 5x15 Bristol
September 21, 2016 20:17 - 13.1 MBKeith Stuart, the games editor at the Guardian talks about his debut novel A Boy Made of Blocks, a story of love, family, autism and Minecraft, which is based on his own experiences with his autistic son, Zac. The novel was written after The Guardian published a piece about how Minecraft had a hugely positive impact on Keith’s son Zac; it gave Zac a vocabulary and the confidence to use it, and meant that Keith was able to understand Zac better – having a positive effect on the whole family. ...
How racism has affected me - Nikesh Shukla - 5x15 Bristol
September 21, 2016 20:12 - 10 MBNikesh Shukla talks about how isolated incidents of racism have a lasting impact on people’s mental health and as we watch the rise of the far right, we need to be careful to understand their power. Nikesh Shukla is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Meatspace, and the Costa shortlisted novel, Coconut Unlimited. His short stories have featured in Best British Short Stories 2013, Five Dials, The Moth Magazine, Pen Pusher, The Sunday Times, Book Slam, BBC Radio 4, First City Magazin...
The future of Syria's monuments - Dan Cruickshank - 5x15 Bristol
September 21, 2016 20:06 - 10.6 MBDan Cruickshank is a writer, art historian, architectural consultant and broadcaster who’s made numerous history and cultural programmes for the BBC including 'Around the World in Eighty Treasures; Adventures in Architecture'; 'Under Fire: culture and conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq'. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Dan has travelled extensively in the Middle East, North Africa an...
Hollie McNish performs a whistle stop tour of her diaries - 5x15 Bristol
September 21, 2016 19:55 - 11.9 MBThe wonderful Hollie McNish taking us on a whistle stop tour of her diaries. With Benjamin Zephaniah stating “I can’t take my ears off her”, Kate Tempest describing her poetry as “welcoming, galvanising and beautiful” and fans ranging from Robin Ince, Pink, Tim Minchen, Marian Keyes to most of the UK’s midwives, Hollie McNish is a poet whose readings are not to be missed. She is an Arts Foundation Fellow in Spoken Word, has garnered over two million Youtube views for her online poetry perfo...
Anatomy of a soldier - Harry Parker
September 16, 2016 15:48 - 13.8 MBHarry Parker grew up in Wiltshire. He was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a Captain. He is now a writer and artist and lives in London. Anatomy of a Soldier is his first novel. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 ...
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper - Bruce Robinson
September 16, 2016 15:46 - 12.9 MBBruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor, renowned for 1987 cult classic Withnail and I, which he wrote and directed. Acting credits include Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Ken Russell’s The Music Lovers. Robinson wrote the screenplay for Roland Joffe’s 'The Killing Fields', for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a BAFTA. Most recently, Robinson directed 'The Rum Diary', starring Johnny Depp. His books include the semi-autobiographical...
Jeremy Corbyn & Ben Okri in conversation at Royal Festival Hall
August 01, 2016 09:44 - 238 MBUpon his election as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn spoke of some of the people who have inspired him on his extraordinary journey. He said: ‘The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love..’ The author of that quote was Nigerian poet and novelist, Ben Okri. Speaking together for the first time in this recording, Corbyn and Okri discuss the forces that have made them what they are, the state of the world today, their lit...
Brexit: The Future - An emergency discussion
June 28, 2016 10:02 - 177 MBRecorded at the Tabernacle after the Brexit decision an emergency discussion on Brexit: the future. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
PART 1/ Digested Reads - a decade of poking fun at clunky plots and dodgy dialogue -John Crace
June 27, 2016 14:24 - 5.39 MBIt is a satirist's dream come true. John Crace looks back over a decade of poking fun at clunky plots and dodgy dialogue John is a staff feature writer for the 'Guardian' and author of many books. He writes the literary pastiche 'Digested Read', incisive pastiches of the most popular writers, from Bridget Jones to Julian Barnes, and is the Parliamentary sketch writer for the 'Guardian'. He has also written several books, including 'Vertigo: One Football Fan’s Fear of Success' and 'Harry’s G...
PART 2/ Digested Reads - a decade of poking fun at clunky plots and dodgy dialogue - John Crace
June 27, 2016 14:23 - 5.6 MBIt is a satirist's dream come true. John Crace looks back over a decade of poking fun at clunky plots and dodgy dialogue. John is a staff feature writer for the 'Guardian' and author of many books. He writes the literary pastiche 'Digested Read', incisive pastiches of the most popular writers, from Bridget Jones to Julian Barnes, and is the Parliamentary sketch writer for the 'Guardian'. He has also written several books, including 'Vertigo: One Football Fan’s Fear of Success' and 'Harry’s ...