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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PART 3/ Digested Reads - a decade of poking fun at clunky plots and dodgy dialogue - John Crace
June 27, 2016 14:22 - 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...
Assemble's Turner Prize winning work - Maria Lisogorskaya
June 27, 2016 14:21 - 14.5 MBAssemble are a collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design. They began working together in 2010 and are comprised of 18 members. Assemble’s working practice seeks to address the typical disconnection between the public and the process by which places are made. Assemble champion a working practice that is interdependent and collaborative, seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in the on-going realization of the work...
Grief is A Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
June 27, 2016 14:20 - 13.1 MBMax Porter tells a deeply moving story about death at 5x15. He is a senior editor at Granta Books and Portobello Books. He previously managed an independent bookshop and won the Young Bookseller of the Year award. His debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers has been met with great critical acclaim and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in South London with his wife and children. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions an...
Misha Glenny Reveals the world of Nemesis
June 27, 2016 14:19 - 17 MBMisha Glenny is an award-winning journalist and historian who has travelled around the world, interviewing men and women involved in organised criminal activity. His book McMafia is a major BBC 1 drama series. His work, 'Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio', is the gripping story of the man who ran the largest slum in Rio as head of the local drugs cartel. Based on 30 hours of interviews with the man along with his family, friends, enemies and the police who investigated his operation ...
How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran - Women's Equality Party
June 27, 2016 14:18 - 19.7 MBThe Women's Equality Party launch their election campaign with a celebrity fundraiser hosted with 5x15 in May 2016. Caitlin Moran addressed the audience at Central Methodist Hall. (intro by Sandi Toksvig) Caitlin Moran was brought up on a council estate in Wolverhampton where she was home-educated. She published a children’s novel, 'The Chronicles of Narmo', at the age of 16, then became a columnist at 'The Times' at the age of 18, where she was a Columnist, Interviewer and awarded Critic o...
Founding the Women's Equality Party - Catherine Mayer - Women's Equality Party
June 27, 2016 14:15 - 17.2 MBThe Women's Equality Party launch their election campaign with a celebrity fundraiser hosted with 5x15 in May 2016. (intro: Sophie Walker) Catherine Mayer is the co-founder, with Sandi Toksvig, of the Women’s Equality Party and is now its President. She published her bestselling biography of Prince Charles, 'Charles: The Heart of a King', in February 2015. She is also the author of the 2011 book 'Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly'. An award-winning journalist, she sta...
It's Different for Girls - Rosie Boycott & Jo Brand - Women's Equality Party
June 27, 2016 14:14 - 17 MBThe Women's Equality Party launch their election campaign with a celebrity fundraiser hosted with 5x15 in May 2016. Actress Jo Brand speaks with Rosie Boycott. (intro by Catherine Mayer) Since leaving her job as a psychiatric nurse in 1987, Jo Brand has built a large following across the UK as a writer, broadcaster and stand up comedienne. She appears on television regularly, with examples including her award-winning Channel 4 show, 'Jo Brand Through The Cakehole', as well as stints on BBC’...
Founding the Women's Equality Party - Sandi Toksvig - Women's Equality Party
June 27, 2016 14:11 - 14.4 MBThe Women's Equality Party launch their election campaign with a celebrity fundraiser hosted with 5x15 in May 2016. (intro By Rosie Boycott) Sandi Toksvig is a well-known broadcaster for both television and radio, and a co-founder along with Catherine Mayer, of the Women's Equality Party. She also hosts 'The News Quiz' on BBC Radio 4 and '1001 Things You Should Know' on Channel 4. She presented 'Excess Baggage' on Radio 4 until 2012. She has written more than twenty books including fiction...
I am an artist, a teacher & a feminist -Tanya Moodie & Sophie Walker - Women's Equality Party
June 27, 2016 14:10 - 10.8 MBThe Women's Equality Party launch their election campaign with a celebrity fundraiser hosted with 5x15 in 2015. Actress Tanya Moody speaks with Sophie Walker, leader of WEP. (intro by Caitlin Moran) Tanya Moodie is a Canadian-born, British actress. Her many stage credits include productions with The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre and the Bouffes Du Nord in Paris where she appeared in Peter Brook's 'Le Costume'. Her portrayal of Rose in August Wilson...
The meaning of food - A.A. Gill - 5x15's Food Fight
June 27, 2016 13:44 - 15.4 MB5x15 food fight with 5 exceptional speakers on food. AA Gill is an award-winning writer and provocative television and restaurant critic. 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
Corporate Food - George Monbiot - 5x15's Food Fight
June 27, 2016 13:43 - 12.7 MB5x15 food fight with 5 exceptional speakers on food. George Monbiot is a journalist and columnist at the Guardian and author of a number of books including Feral. 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
Blood sugar - Michael Mosley - 5x15's Food Fight
June 27, 2016 13:42 - 16 MB5x15 food fight with 5 exceptional speakers on food. Is it possible to eat well most of the time and get slimmer and healthier as you do it? Michael Mosley is a doctor, science television journalist, producer and presenter who has worked for the BBC since 1985, here he talks about diet and blood sugar regulation. 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 abou...
The facts of obesity - Professor Phil James - 5x15's Food Fight
June 27, 2016 13:42 - 12.7 MB5x15 food fight with 5 exceptional speakers on food. Phil James is an honorary member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He established the International Obesity Task Force, organised the first WHO global burden analysis of obesity, the UN Millennium report on Nutrition for the UN Secretary General and established the World Obesity Federation as the global obesity NGO. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. The...
On design - Asif Khan
June 27, 2016 13:41 - 16.6 MBAsif Khan’s London-based practice works across the fields of architecture, industrial and furniture design. It is dedicated to pushing these disciplines in innovative and unexpected directions. In recognition of his design and delivery of the MegaFaces Pavilion at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Asif was awarded a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Innovation. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts...
Bottles, bags and Bottletop - Cameron Saul - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 15.3 MBThe Bottletop Foundation was launched in 2002 by Cameron Saul and his father Roger (Founder of British luxury fashion brand Mulberry) through a design collaboration with Mulberry. 5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebo...
Reviving denim production in Wales - David Hieatt - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 14.8 MBDavid Hieatt is Co-Founder of The Do Lectures and Co-founder of Hiut Denim Co. 5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
Positive Luxury - Diana Verde Neito & Storm Keating - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 15.1 MBProducer, model and wife of Ronan Keating, Storm Keating works with Positive Luxury to help change the face of consumerism for the better and shape the way luxury lifestyle brands do business. 5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15...
Dilys Williams hosts 'Sustainable Fashion' - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 4.18 MB5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. Professor Dilys Williams FRSA is Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts Research Centre based at London College of Fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15sto...
Ethical living - Lucy Siegle - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 20 MBLucy Siegle is the Guardian’s leading journalist on ethical and green living, Lucy has also written two books – Green Living in the Urban Jungle and To Die For – and champions environmental issues on TV and radio. 5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: ...
The power of campaigning television - Stacey Dooley - recorded at Selfridges
June 27, 2016 09:24 - 15 MBStacey Dooley rose to TV fame in 2009 after appearing on a number of investigative documentaries exploring wide-ranging topics from child labour issues in developing countries to sex trafficking. 5x15 at Selfridges for a night on sustainable fashion. 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: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5...
The Lost Art of the Hero - Christopher McDougall
March 13, 2016 11:48 - 13.6 MBChristopher McDougall is the author of 'Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen' and 'Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance', both published by Profile Books. He began his career as an overseas correspondent for the Associated Press, covering wars in Rwanda and Angola. He now lives and writes (and runs, swims, climbs, and bear-crawls) among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania. 5x15 brings t...
Get it Together - Zoe Williams
March 06, 2016 17:21 - 15.1 MBZoe Williams explains why we deserve better politics. Zoe Williams has been a journalist at the Guardian for fourteen years, writing columns and features and being constantly surprised as everything – from global finance, climate change, social fragmentation, inequality – always turned out to be exactly as dicey as one or other of her colleagues had invariably warned. She's also written for women’s magazines including Marie Claire, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Red, InStyle...
Waterloo: a woman's view - Jane Wellesley
February 21, 2016 16:24 - 15.5 MBJane Wellesley paints an intimate and compelling portrait of her ancestor the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants. Jane Wellesley is an Independent Television Producer and author of 'Wellington: A Journey Through My Family'. Her father was the 8th Duke of Wellington born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke's momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, but only a little over sixty years after the death of his celebrated ancestor. Most of us view the First Duke of Wellingto...
More clothes, music, boys - Viv Albertine
February 14, 2016 20:42 - 15.3 MBViv Albertine comes back at 5x15 and tells the story of how she forced herself on to a male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music. Viv Albertine grew up in London. After forming The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious in 1976, she joined The Slits in 1977 and became a filmmaker in 1987. After a considerable interlude, she is now back making art and music. Her recent projects include a starring role in Joanna Hogg's film Exhibition, and the release of her auto...
Richard Dawkins: his life in science
February 14, 2016 17:28 - 17.6 MBRichard Dawkins explains his inspirations, ideas, encounters and history. Richard Dawkins is one of the most respected scientists and secularists in the world. From 1995 to 2008 he was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is an internationally best-selling author, with books including 'The Selfish Gene', 'The God Delusion' and 'The Greatest Show on Earth'. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature. His ...
Napoleon the great - Andrew Roberts
February 07, 2016 14:32 - 14.4 MBAndrew Roberts about Napoleon. Andrew Roberts has written or edited twelve books, and appears regularly on radio and television around the world. He has recently lectured at Yale, Princeton and Stanford Universities and at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He commentated for NBC on the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, following his well-received broadcasts at the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the wedding of P...
Passing it on - Michael Morpurgo
January 24, 2016 13:32 - 21 MBMichael Morpurgo, OBE, is the former Children’s Laureate and best-selling author of over 130 books for children, including 'Private Peaceful', 'The Butterfly Lion', 'Kensuke’s Kingdom' and 'War Horse', which first performed at the National Theatre in 2007. It continues to be performed at the New London Theatre to packed theatres. 'War Horse' was released as a film directed by Steven Spielberg in January 2012. In 1976, Michael and his wife, Clare, started the charity Farms for City Children. ...
Artichoke Trust - Helen Marriage
January 24, 2016 13:19 - 15.4 MBHelen Marriage on her work with Artichoke, which produces large-scale events that disrupt everyday life.
A journey in search of Mary - Bee Rowlatt
December 14, 2015 22:41 - 12.3 MBBee Rowlatt embarks on a remarkable journey - toddler in tow - in search of the feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft. Bee Rowlatt is a writer and journalist. Her book, 'In Search of Mary' is inspired by the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. The best-selling 'Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad' has been dramatised by the BBC, and translated into numerous languages. Bee won the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust award to complete the travels for 'In Search of Mary'. Bee contributed to Virago's...
Time Travelling Guide to London - Matthew Green
December 08, 2015 22:31 - 17.7 MBHistorian Matt Green returns to 5x15 to talk about his time travelling guide to London. Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz. We'll turn back the clock to the time of Shakespeare and visit a savage bull and bear baiting arena on the Bankside. In medieval London, we'll circle the walls as the city lies barricaded under curfew, ...
Working on the frontline - Lindsey Hilsum
November 23, 2015 21:40 - 13.7 MBChannel 4 News's Lindsey Hilsum inspires the audience talking about her work and career as a foreign reporter. Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News' International Editor. She has covered the major conflicts of the past two decades, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2011 she reported the uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain, as well as Libya. She has also reported extensively from Iran and Zimbabwe, and was Channel 4 News China Correspondent fr...
Totally Thames - Adrian Evans
November 12, 2015 22:40 - 14.8 MBAdrian Evans of Totally Thames talks about his festival celebrating the iconic river of London. Adrian Evans has dedicated his working life to creating spectacles. For years he produced the anarchic French circus troupe Archaos, and he has overseen many music festivals, including London's Millennium celebrations. He has also "immersed" himself in the history and cultural importance of London's great river, having directed the Mayor's Thames Festival since founding the event 15 years ago. 5...
The book of human emotion - Tiffany Watt Smith
November 10, 2015 22:03 - 15 MBThe Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust. 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
Food and politics - Rosie Boycott
November 01, 2015 18:48 - 13.6 MBRosie Boycott talks about the food system: A system that former generations would find unrecognisable. And a system putting profit before health. 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
Do no harm: stories of life, death and brain surgery - Henry Marsh
October 21, 2015 20:14 - 18 MBHenry Marsh tells stories of life, death and brain surgery from his best selling book 'Do No Harm', shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014. 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
A photographer life of love and war - Lynsey Addario
September 26, 2015 10:14 - 16.9 MBWar photographer Lynsey Addario on her incredible life of love and war. Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a photographer when September 11th changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to risk her life, to set out across the world, and to make a name for herself. It...
The Physics of Fiction - Clare Clark
September 16, 2015 20:47 - 14.7 MBClare Clark takes on the physics of fiction and talks about her book We That Are Left. Clare read History at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a Senior Scholar. She graduated with a Double First. She then spent eleven years in advertising, first at Saatchi & Saatchi and then, as a board director, at Bartle Bogle Hegarty, working both in London and New York. Her first novel, The Great Stink, was published by Viking in 2005 after a five-way auction: critically acclaimed on both sides o...
The Tabiat Bridge - Leila Araghian
September 04, 2015 09:42 - 16.6 MBArchitect, Leila Araghian on her most famous project, the Tabiat Bridge. Leila Araghian is an Iranian architect. She studied architecture at Shahid Beheshti University in Iran. She later received her Master of Architecture degree from the University of British Columbia, where she won the UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize. In 2005, Araghian co-founded Diba Tensile Architecture together, with a colleague, Alireza Behzadi, a company specializing in the design, manufacture and installat...
The story of her family - Polly Samson
August 14, 2015 23:00 - 14.5 MBPolly Samson tells the extraordinary story of her family. Author of The Kindness, Polly Samson was born in London in 1962. Here she tells the extraordinary story of her family: of her father, Lance Samson, who left Hamburg in 1938 for London on the Kindertransport. And of her mother, Esther Cheo Ying, the author of Black Country to Red China, a memoir that moves from Shanghai to Dr Barnardo's and back to China where she became a Major in Mao's Army. 5x15 brings together five outstanding ind...
The story of the coastlines of Britain - Patrick Barkham
August 04, 2015 21:33 - 16.6 MBPatrick Barkham on the fascinating story of the coastlines of Britain. Patrick Barkham was educated at Cambridge University. He is a National History writer for the Guardian where he has worked for the last 10 years, reporting on everything from the Iraq War to climate change. His first book, The Butterfly Isles, was shortlisted for the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prize. His next book Badgerlands, was hailed by Chris Packham as "a must read for all Britain's naturalists" and wa...
Time Travelling Through London - Dr Matthew Green
July 17, 2015 09:55 - 18.1 MBDr Matthew Green takes us on a whirlwind tour, time travelling back through the history of London. We will step back in time and visit a bear baiting arena amidst the marshes and brothels of Shakespearean Bankside. Tracking further back in time, we will circumnavigate the city walls of medieval London as the city broods under the nightly curfew and visit an anchoress, willingly walled up for life into a tiny, suffocating cell attached to a Cornhill Church. 5x15 brings together five outstand...
The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks and Rory Cellan-Jones
July 06, 2015 14:21 - 59.2 MBJames Rebanks is a shepherd who lives and works in the eastern Lake District, in the same valleys and fells that his family has farmed for over 600 years. As @herdyshepherd1 he tweets about his farm and his flock’s daily life, and has over 60,000 followers. He is the author of The Shepherd's Life, a Sunday Times #1 bestseller, described in the Independent as “an unforgettable book, one that raises important questions. It is also one of the most truthful depictions of contemporary rural li...
Neil Gaiman & David Mitchell: Two Literary Titans in Conversation
June 18, 2015 11:29 - 72.2 MBFor their first meeting ever, two heavyweights of the literature world, Neil Gaiman and David Mitchell, join forces in conversation for 5x15. In this podcast, hear the authors give insightful responses to questions from some of their biggest fans. Topics range from philosophy and politics, to which tree they most identify with, in an hour and a quarter of dazzling discussion and readings. Chaired by Erica Wagner, literary editor of The Times. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individual...
An election sketch - John Crace
May 29, 2015 09:58 - 15.3 MBThe Guardian parliamentary sketch writer John Crace takes to the road with the political parties in the general election 2015. John Crace is a British journalist and critic. Crace is the author of the "Digested Read" column in The Guardian, and is the newspaper's parliamentary sketch writer. He is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and has written several books on the club. He blogs for ESPN FC on Tottenham. Writing about Patrick Melrose in The Guardian, Crace described his history of he...
The future of money and bitcoin - John Lanchester
May 11, 2015 15:08 - 15 MBJournalist John Lanchester talks about the future of money and tells us all about bitcoin and getting to grips with the language of money. John Lanchester has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written four novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and Capital, and two works of non-fiction:...
The Iceberg - Marion Coutts
May 05, 2015 10:07 - 16.6 MBMarion Coutts talks about The Iceberg, her award winning and critically acclaimed memoir. In 2008 her husband the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. Here Marion discusses family, art, work, love and language. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts ...
Gross Marital Happiness - Tim Dowling
April 23, 2015 11:15 - 13.1 MBThe brilliant Tim Dowling presents the 12 (or is it 13?) precepts to ensure Gross Marital Happiness and introduces - in his inimitable style- his advice on How to Be A Husband in just 15 minutes. 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: w...
A story of shame - Jasvinder Sanghera
April 15, 2015 13:12 - 11.9 MBCampaigner and inspiration Jasvinder Sanghera tells her incredibly powerful story of shame and forced marriage at 5x15. Jasvinder Sanghera CBE was born and brought up in Derby. A survivor of a forced marriage, she is the founder of Karma Nirvana, a national award winning charity that supports both men and women affected by honour based abuse and forced marriages. She is a highly acclaimed international speaker and an expert advisor to the courts in matters of child, civil and criminal procee...
Christopher Jefferies talks about lost honour and being falsely accused of murder
April 09, 2015 10:07 - 13.7 MBChristopher Jefferies talks about his experiences when he was falsely accused of the murder of Joanna Yeates and his subsequent trial by media. 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
Charlie Gilmour tells his extraordinary story for the first time
March 30, 2015 14:42 - 15.6 MBCharlie Gilmour is a freelance writer, martial arts enthusiast and campaigner for prisoners' rights. He has experienced trial by press and trial by trial so is well acquainted with public shame. In 2011 he was sentenced to 16 months in prison following his actions during student protests again austerity. After being released he completed a degree in history at Cambridge University. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are ...