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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So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
March 20, 2015 11:34 - 17.9 MBThe journalist Jon Ronson talks about the great renaissance of public shame sweeping the land. Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories. He is known for his informal but skeptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published ...
The public shaming of women - Caroline Criado
March 20, 2015 11:28 - 18.3 MBCaroline Criado-Perez, OBE is a Brazilian-born British feminist activist and journalist. She has been involved in campaigns for women to gain better representation in the British media and to be depicted on banknotes. Her efforts in part led to a decision by the Bank of England to review the selection process for future banknotes. Since this decision, the Bank of England announced in July 2013 that the image of Jane Austen will appear on the £10 note by around 2017. The campaign led to susta...
Reasons to stay alive - Matt Haig
March 06, 2015 16:02 - 17.6 MBBest selling novelist Matt Haig talks about depression. Warm, witty, honest and human, this is a manifesto for staying alive, whatever your demons. Matt Haig writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist. The Guardian has described his writing as 'delightfully weird' and the New York Times has called him 'a novelist of great talent' whose writing is 'funny, riveting and heartbreaking'. His novels for adults...
It's What I Do - Lynsey Addario
March 06, 2015 15:59 - 17.7 MBThe outstanding Lynsey Addario speaks about her incredible work as an international war photographer and tells of the stories she has encountered the world. 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, b...
Everyday sexism project - Laura Bates
March 06, 2015 15:57 - 17.2 MBLaura Bates talks about the ever expanding everyday sexism project. Laura Bates is the founder of the award-winning Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality which has been described as “one of the biggest social media success stories on the internet”. The project has expanded into 20 countries worldwide and become internationally renowned, featuring in media from the New York Times to the Times of India. Laura has an online foll...
Hungry jazz - Jay Rayner
March 06, 2015 15:57 - 15.1 MBThe restaurant critic Jay Rayner talks about his unexpected passion for jazz piano... Jay Rayner is a British journalist, writer, broadcaster, food critic and jazz musician. 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/5...
What Nature Does for Britain - Tony Juniper
February 25, 2015 07:57 - 14.8 MBThe former head of Friends of the Earth and impassioned protector of the environment - Tony Juniper - talks about what nature does for Britain. Tony Juniper CBE is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and a well-known British environmentalist. For more than 30 years he has worked for change toward a more sustainable society at local, national and international levels. From providing ecology and conservation experiences for primary school children, making the case for new recycling la...
Writing, the devil's in the detail - Joanna Trollope
February 25, 2015 07:55 - 15.7 MBThe best selling writer Joanna Trollop talks about why she writes and the inspiration behind her hit books. Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years and is well known for her enormously successful contemporary works of fiction. She has been described as one of the most insightful chroniclers and social commenters writing fiction today. For all her novels, Joanna undertakes meticulous research, involving huge amounts of interviewing and travel – often on foot or by public tra...
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
February 25, 2015 07:55 - 14.9 MBHelen Macdonald talks about training a goshawk Mabel in the aftermath of her father's death. Her critically acclaimed book H is for Hawk winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year 2014. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She is best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award. In 2016, it al...
A Memoir of Growing Up - Antonia Fraser
February 25, 2015 07:53 - 14.5 MBThe award winning historian Antonia Fraser talks to Rosie Boycott about her childhood, speed reading and growing up the eldest of eight children. Her father was the exquisitely eccentric Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, the British politician and social reformer who was once beaten up by thugs at a meeting addressed by Sir Oswald Mosley - and her mother the historian Elizabeth Harman. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Families, identity and a dozen kinds of love - Andrew Solomon
February 25, 2015 07:52 - 15.6 MBAndrew Solomon is an author and one of five parents with four children in three states. Here he talks about finding peace with being gay, after a long and tortured period, becoming a father and discovering the greatest joy in his extended family. Andrew Solomon, Ph.D., is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and psychology; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Me...
Reprogramming the city - Scott Burnham
February 23, 2015 11:37 - 14.5 MBScott Burnham explains how cities can do more with the infrastructure, assets, and systems they already have. Scott Burnham is an urban strategist and design director who has engineered initiatives in more than a dozen cities worldwide, ranging from short term engagements and advisories to directing large urban regeneration catalysts. After 16 years working and living in seven different cities and five countries, Reprogramming The City marked Burnham’s return to Boston. 5x15 brings togethe...
A life in fashion - Grace Coddington
February 23, 2015 11:36 - 15.9 MBCreative director of Vogue Grace Coddington talks about her life in fashion. Grace Coddington is the creative director of Vogue. She started her career modelling, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British Vogue in the late 1960s. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Is...
Breakfast with Lucian - Geordie Greig
February 23, 2015 11:30 - 13 MBGeordie Greig about his conversations with Lucian Freud. Geordie Greig is a journalist and newspaper editor. He served as editor of Tatler from 1999-2009, before going on to edit the London Evening Standard. In 2012, he was appointed as editor of the Mail on Sunday. In addition to his editorial roles, he has written a foreword to The Forward Book of Poetry (1999), and written a biography of his grandfather, who was a friend of King George VI, entitled The Kingmaker (2011). Greig was a frie...
Man with a blue scarf - Martin Gayford
February 23, 2015 11:28 - 14.3 MBSitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford. Martin Gayford is the art critic for Bloomberg News and The Spectator, and contributes regularly to The Daily Telegraph, The Lady, Modern Painters and Harpers & Queen. Gayford described chronologically, in the acclaimed book Man With a Blue Scarf, sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and images and the result vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of c...
How the last leper colony in Europe inspired a best seller - Victoria Hislop
February 23, 2015 10:08 - 15.5 MBWriter Victoria Hislop talks about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony. Victoria Hislop is a journalist and author. She writes travel features for The Sunday Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, House & Garden and Woman & Home. Her first novel The Island about the deserted Greek island of Spinalonga - a former leper colony - was published in 2005 held the number 1 slot in the paperback charts for over 8 weeks, selling over 2 millions copies in the UK. The book has also ...
The legacy of Elizabeth Pringle - Kirsty Wark
February 23, 2015 10:07 - 13.7 MBBroadcaster Kirsty Wark talks about the island of Arran, which nestles in the Firth of Clyde. Kirsty Wark joined the BBC as a graduate researcher in 1976 for BBC Radio Scotland, going on to become a producer in radio current affairs. After a spell on Radio 4's The World At One, Kirsty moved to television in 1983 - working as a producer on Reporting Scotland and later producing and presenting the current affairs weekly Seven Days. Kirsty has interviewed many top politicians, but her most memo...
The Millennium forest project - Dan Pearson
February 23, 2015 10:06 - 13.7 MBDan Pearson talks about his project the Millennium Forest Garden in Hokkaido. Dan Pearson is an English garden designer, landscape designer, journalist, and television presenter. He is an expert in naturalistic perennial planting. 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....
Her Passion for Plants - Anna Pavord
February 23, 2015 10:02 - 13.7 MBAnna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of eight books, including the bestselling The Tulip. She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the US and the UK and regularly fronts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sits on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage. She lives in Dorset, England, where she spent thirty years restoring the garden of an old rectory. She has recently moved to a new ...
Design - Stephen Bayley
February 23, 2015 09:47 - 12.3 MBStephen Bayley talks design at 5x15. Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater and curator. 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
Insight and Advertising - Rory Sutherland
February 23, 2015 09:46 - 19.3 MBRory Sutherland provides insight into advertising in the age of the Internet and social media. Rory Sutherland is a British advertising executive. He is the current Executive Creative Director of OgilvyOne. He was vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK and co-founder of the Behavioural Sciences Practice, part of the Ogilvy & Mather group of companies. He wrote The Wiki Man. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rule...
Discover the secret history of London coffeehouses - Matthew Green
January 27, 2015 15:27 - 14.3 MBDr Matthew Green takes us back to discover the history of London Coffeehouses. 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
David Gentleman's London
January 27, 2015 15:27 - 14.4 MBDavid Gentleman on London sketches. David William Gentleman (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. 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.in...
The story of London - Craig Taylor - Soho Stories recorded with the National Trust
January 27, 2015 15:26 - 12 MBCraig Taylor tells Soho Stories at a special event recorded in partnership with 5x15 and the National Trust. In, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - as Told by Those Who Love it, Hate it, Live it, Left it and Long for it, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today's London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no...
How food shapes our lives and cities - Carolyn Steel
January 27, 2015 15:25 - 17.1 MBCarolyn Steel on food and how food shapes our lives. Carolyn Steel is a London-based architect, lecturer and writer. She is author of Hungry City. 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
This Boy - Growing up in Notting Hill - Alan Johnson podcast 1
January 27, 2015 15:24 - 14.7 MBThe Labour MP Alan Johnson on his early life in London. He talks at 5x15 about the first instalment of his best-selling memoirs. Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alan Johnson has...
The curious world of collection - Viktor Wynd
January 23, 2015 09:14 - 14.8 MBViktor Wynd talks about his curious world of collecting. Viktor Wynd is an artist, author, lecturer, impresario and Founder of The Last Tuesday Society. 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 an experimental theatre troupe - Mike Figgis
January 23, 2015 09:02 - 14.3 MBMike Figgis on his time in an experimental theatre troupe. Mike Figgis is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. 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
Lisa Hannigan entrances and delights
January 23, 2015 09:01 - 15.2 MBLisa Hannigan is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician. 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 importance of human connection - Theodore Zeldin
January 21, 2015 13:53 - 13.7 MBTheodore Zeldin on human connection. Dr Theodore Zeldin is the son of refugees from the Russian Revolution, a graduate and former lecturer of Christ Church Oxford, and one of the scholars who developed Oxford University’s centres for international studies at St Antony’s College, of which he was Dean and Senior Tutor for 13 years. As a historian and philosopher, he has revealed how human emotions have changed through the centuries, and proposed new ambitions for the next generation: his boo...
How addicts can be heroes - Johann Hari
January 21, 2015 13:49 - 12.2 MBJohann Hari on the killing of Billie Holiday. Johann Hari is a Swiss-British writer and journalist. 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
Saving a piece of the Australian rainforest - Germaine Greer
January 21, 2015 13:47 - 16.3 MBGermaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement and author of The Female Eunuch. 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
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - Anita Anand
January 21, 2015 13:40 - 13.9 MBThe true story of an Indian Princess in the British court, weaving through the most important episodes in British and Indian history. Broadcaster, journalist and biographer Anita Anand was born in 1972 and educated at King's College, London. 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 Fac...
The world's favourite numbers - Alex Bellos
January 21, 2015 13:34 - 13.3 MBAlex Bellos talks about the world's favourite numbers... Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, describes his quest to bring mathematics to the people by any means possible. In a wide-ranging talk which skips from Kilburn to India, via Arizona, Bellos reveals the mathematical principles that underpin the most unexpected aspects of modern-day life. He demonstrates how sports punditry is “basically a delusion” by recounting his meticulous daily experiments with bread-weighing...
The art of collecting songs - Sam Lee
January 12, 2015 15:27 - 15.9 MBSam Lee speaks about collecting songs - Sam Lee is Britain's most inventive folk singer and an expert in traditional music. 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 life inspired by music - Mick Hucknall
January 12, 2015 15:25 - 13.1 MBMick Hucknall tells the story of his musical heritage. Mick Hucknall is a singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the hugely successful British band Simply Red. The band have all-time worldwide sales of over 50 million and 30 top 40 UK hits to their credit in addition to having played over a 1,000 concerts to more than 10 million people. Born in Denton in 1960, his interest in the music scene led to the launch of his career in the late 1970s, when he was part of the formation of the...
Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock - 5x15 Podcast
January 12, 2015 15:23 - 14.6 MBJoe Boyd tells stories from the 60s and Robyn Hitchcock plays the appropriate songs. Joe Boyd, record producer (Nick Drake, REM, Pink Floyd, Toumani Diabate among many) and author of "White Bicycles: Music In the 1960s" joins with singer Robyn Hitchcock (subject of Jonathan Demme's film "Storefront Hitchcock") for a 15 minute slice of the acclaimed show they have performed across the US and the UK. Joe tells stories from the 1960s and Robyn (who bought so many of the records Joe produced in t...
Romany and Tom - Ben Watt
January 12, 2015 15:21 - 16 MBBen Watt tells the beautiful story of Romany and Tom. Born in 1962, Ben Watt is a musician, songwriter, DJ and author. His first book, Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, voted a Sunday Times Book of the Year by William Boyd and shortlisted for the Esquire Non-fiction Book of the Year. His latest book is Romany and Tom a vivid story of the post-war years, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. He ...
Music from Barb Jungr
January 12, 2015 15:18 - 13 MBThe incomparable Barb Jungr sings her own interpretations and covers. Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal style, interpretation of song and radical approach to arrangements. Her acclaimed releases on Linn Records and Naim Label, and "revelatory" live performances have brought her to audiences all around the world. Barb celebrated 2011 by touring the UK extensively with a new Bob Dylan collection, performing the show Girl Talk with Mari Wilson and Gwyneth Herbert, and collaborating wi...
The battle to save my son Gary McKinnon - Janis Sharp
December 17, 2014 10:58 - 16.2 MBJanis Sharp tells the extraordinary story of her battle to prevent her son Gary McKinnon being extradited to America. Recorded at a special event with Liberty. Janis Sharp is a musician/composer and writer of children's books. Her son, Gary McKinnon, who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome, had a lifelong obsession with UFOs and while searching for evidence thereof, wandered into NASA and Pentagon computers. The lives of he and his mother Janis changed dramatically one morning in March 2002 whe...
Nowhere to hide, nowhere to run - Isabella Sankey
December 17, 2014 10:51 - 7.65 MBIsabella Sankey speaks about nowhere to run nowhere to hide. Isabella Sankey is Director of Policy at Liberty. Isabella oversees Liberty's parliamentary campaigning and policy development and is one of its leading voices on various human rights issues including counter-terrorism, free speech and the rights of vulnerable minorities. Isabella is a non-practising barrister, and worked for the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat before joining Liberty in 200...
The case for human rights - Emily Thornberry
December 17, 2014 10:50Emily Thornberry MP speaks about the Human Rights Act and the case for civil liberties at a special 5x15 event with Liberty. Emily was elected Member of Parliament for Islington South & Finsbury in the 2005 General Election, and was re-elected in 2010 with an increased majority of 3,569. After the 2010 election, Emily became a Shadow Minister in the Department of Energy and Climate Change and took a leading role in Ed Miliband’s successful leadership campaign. In October 2010 she became a S...
Why we need The Human Rights Act- Dominic Grieve
December 17, 2014 10:41Dominic Grieve makes the case for the Human Rights Act and civil liberties recorded at a special event celebrating Liberty. The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP was appointed Conservative spokesman for Scotland in June 1999 and in September 2001 he was appointed Conservative spokesman for criminal justice and community cohesion as part of the Shadow Home Affairs team. From 2003 to 2009 Dominic Grieve was Shadow Attorney General. The Leader of the Opposition appointed Dominic Grieve to Shadow Home...
Being your child's best teacher - Michael Rosen
December 03, 2014 11:54 - 15.5 MBFormer children's laureate, the hugely loved Michael Rosen on being your child's best teacher. Michael Rosen was born in 1946 in North London. There are several letters after his name: MA Oxon (he read English at Oxford); Ph.D (in reading and writing); and various honorary titles including D Lit (Doctor of Letters fro m the University of the West of England). He is a former Children’s Laureate and the bestselling author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which won the Smarties Best Bo ok of the ...
Elif Shafak on creativity
December 03, 2014 11:54 - 15.6 MBElif Shafak on the urge to create. Elif Shafak is Turkey's most-read female writer and an award-winning novelist. Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringing out the voices of women, minorities, subcultures, immigrants and global souls. Shafak is also a political commentator; she has written for several international daily & weekly publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Die Zeit, La Repubblica and The Independent. 5x15 brings together five outst...
Elif Shafak on creativity - 5x15 Podcast
December 03, 2014 11:54Elif Shafak on the urge to create. Elif Shafak is Turkey's most-read female writer and an award-winning novelist. Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringing out the voices of women, minorities, subcultures, immigrants and global souls. Shafak is also a political commentator; she has written for several international daily & weekly publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Die Zeit, La Repubblica and The Independent. 5x15 brings together five outst...
Please Mister Postman - Alan Johnson podcast 2
December 03, 2014 11:48 - 14.4 MBAlan Johnson MP on what he learnt from his days as a postman. He talks at 5x15 about the second instalment of his best-selling memoir. Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alan Johns...
Shaun Usher - Letters of Note
November 25, 2014 12:31 - 18.5 MBShaun Usher talks about Letters of Note and Lists of Note. Shaun runs the wonderful blog ‘Letters of Note’: an online homage to offline correspondence where he attempts to gather and share fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos for the world to enjoy. With a huge readership and staggering Twitter following, his incredible collection has captured the imagination of millions. In this stunning talk he highlights the strength of the written word by sharing some of the most...
Shaun Usher - 5x15 Podcast
November 25, 2014 12:31Shaun Usher talks about Letters of Note and Lists of Note. Shaun runs the wonderful blog ‘Letters of Note’: an online homage to offline correspondence where he attempts to gather and share fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos for the world to enjoy. With a huge readership and staggering Twitter following, his incredible collection has captured the imagination of millions. In this stunning talk he highlights the strength of the written word by sharing some of the most...
The establishment - Owen Jones
November 25, 2014 12:31 - 15.5 MBOwen Jones talks about the establishment in the UK today. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds,...