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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On choreography - Hofesh Shechter
November 25, 2014 12:30 - 16.8 MBHofesh Shechter on choreography in conversation with Josephine Burton. Hofesh graduated from the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music before moving to Tel Aviv to join the world renowned Batsheva Dance Company. Hofesh began drum and percussion studies whilst in Tel Aviv and continued later in Paris at the Agostiny College of Rhythm. In 2002 Hofesh arrived in the UK. His choreographic debut Fragments, for which he also created the score, immediately attracted international attention and in ...
A pilgrimage to a sacred mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
November 25, 2014 12:30 - 15.5 MBColin Thubron on a journey to a mountain in Tibet. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969, Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. He is author of many best selling and acclaimed works. His latest travel books are Shadows of the Silk Road (2006), an account of his 7,000-mile journey along the route of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet (2011), about his pilgri...
A Child's Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs - Cerys Matthews
November 25, 2014 12:30 - 18.6 MBCerys Matthews on the life of Dylan Thomas. Cerys Elizabeth Matthews MBE is a Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia. 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.instagra...
Song collecting with Sam Lee
November 25, 2014 12:22 - 14.8 MBSam Lee on folk song collecting. Sam Lee is Britain's most inventive folk singer and traditional music specialist. His debut album, Ground of its Own was shortlisted for the 2012 Mercury prize. 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...
A musical career - Joe Boyd
November 25, 2014 12:22Joe Boyd on his music career. Joe Boyd is a record and film producer. After graduating from Harvard, he worked as a production and tour manager for George Wein in Europe where he travelled with Muddy Waters, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and others; and at Newport where he supervised Bob Dylan’s electric debut. In 1966, he opened UFO, London’s psychedelic ballroom. His first record production was four tracks by “Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse” for Elektra in 1966. He went on to produce Pink F...
With my harp and my orchestra - Lucinda Belle
November 25, 2014 12:21Lucinda Belle speaks and plays her harp. The Lucinda Belle Orchestra features a variety of instruments from the harp to the guitar. The debut album, My Voice & 45 Strings, was recorded in various locations including Nashville – where Lucinda once studied jazz. Previously, Lucinda has recorded with the likes of the Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Rufus Wainwright and Annie Lennox. She transcends boundaries taking the harp away from its classical expectations, fusing it with rootsy, gypsy, so...
Music with Beth Orton
November 25, 2014 12:21 - 16.5 MBBeth Orton sings. Beth Orton has been one of the most unique and beguiling voices in music for the past two decades. 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 orchestra in a field - Charles Hazlewood
November 25, 2014 12:20 - 17.1 MBCharles Hazlewood is a world famous conductor. Following his studies at Christ’s Hospital and Oxford University, he won first prize at the European Broadcasting Union Conducting Competition in Lisbon in 1995. June 2003 saw his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He made his BBC Proms conducting debut in August 2006, with the BBC Concert Orchestra; simultaneously presenting the concert live from the stage for TV. He now guest-conducts many of the world's leading orchest...
Florence and Flaubert on the Nile - Anthony Sattin
November 25, 2014 12:19Anthony Sattin is a writer and broadcaster who has spent much of his adult life travelling in and writing about the Middle East and North Africa. His writing has appeared in many UK newspapers, including the Guardian, the Independent, and the Daily Telegraph, and he is on the editorial advisory board of the Geographical Magazine. His broadcasting career began in the mid 1980s, hosting an arts programme for the Arts Channel, and he has since appeared on the BBC series The Thirties in colour an...
Exploring China - Paul Mason
November 25, 2014 12:19Paul Mason on exploring China. Paul was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester in 1960, and studied music and politics at Sheffield University, switching to journalism in the early 1990s. He joined the BBC in 2001, making his first live appearance on the day of 9/11. His groundbreaking reports on the rise of China as an economic power won him the Wincott Award in 2003. He has covered stories as diverse as Hurricane Katrina, gang violence on Merseyside and the social impact of mobile phones in Af...
Where the wild things were - Stanley Johnson
November 25, 2014 12:18Stanley Johnson on his travels with wild animals. Stanley Johnson was born in Cornwall in 1940, and educated at Ravenswood School, Sherborne School and Exeter College, Oxford. Since 1951 his family has farmed on Exmoor, and Stanley still manages the farm there today. He is a former Conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) where he served (1979-1984) as Vice Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection. He has also worked in the Eu...
Down to the sea in ships - Horatio Clare
November 25, 2014 12:18Horatio Clare on going down to the sea in ships... Horatio Clare was born in London, but grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of South Wales. He is the bestselling author of two memoirs including Running for the Hills, which tells the story of his rural childhood and was the winner of the 2007 Somerset Maugham Award. He also wrote the travel book A Single Swallow – which follows the birds' migration from South Africa to the UK – and a novella, The Prince's Pen, a retelling of a Mabi...
Graham Greene and his cousin Barbara in Sierra Leone - Tim Butcher
November 25, 2014 12:18 - 12.6 MBLeading Africa correspondent and adventurer Tim Butcher tells the fascinating and unexpected story of Graham Greene and his cousin Barbara in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 1930s. Greene took 26 bearers, a case of scotch, and hammocks in which he and his cousin Barbara were carried. Barabara in her bloomers was an unlikely person to make such a perilous and difficult journey but her part in the escapade went largely unrecorded and unacknowledged by Greene when he wrote his book based on th...
Coffee and childhood - Elif Shafak
November 25, 2014 12:17 - 15.8 MBThe Turkish writer speaks about coffee, communism and childhood. Elif Shafak is Turkey’s most-read woman writer and an award-winning novelist. She writes in both English and Turkish, and has published 13 books, nine of which are novels, including: The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Honour and her nonfiction memoir Black Milk (by Penguin/Viking). Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringi...
Amy Chua - The Tiger Mother
November 25, 2014 12:17 - 15 MBProfessor Amy Chua on being a Tiger Mother - a fascinating insight into the difference between Western and eastern parenting. Yale Professor Amy Chua talks about parenting - the Chinese way- and the controversy her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, sparked on both sides of the Atlantic. Her book imparted the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child's phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua's parenting memoir told how she raised her two children: no sleep overs, hours of piano pra...
Amy Chua - 5x15 Podcast
November 25, 2014 12:17Professor Amy Chua on being a Tiger Mother - a fascinating insight into the difference between Western and eastern parenting. Yale Professor Amy Chua talks about parenting - the Chinese way- and the controversy her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, sparked on both sides of the Atlantic. Her book imparted the secret behind the stereotypical Asian child's phenomenal success: the Chinese mother. Chua's parenting memoir told how she raised her two children: no sleep overs, hours of piano pra...
Andrew Solomon - Far From the Tree
November 25, 2014 12:15 - 19.4 MBAndrew Solomon on Far From the Tree. Andrew Solomon is a highly regarded academic and journalist on politics, culture and psychology. He’s lectured widely at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Stanford amongst others, and writes regularly for The New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Guardian. His highly acclaimed international study of depression, The Noonday Demon won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell ...
Andrew Solomon - 5x15 Podcast
November 25, 2014 12:15Andrew Solomon on Far From the Tree. Andrew Solomon is a highly regarded academic and journalist on politics, culture and psychology. He’s lectured widely at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Stanford amongst others, and writes regularly for The New Yorker, Newsweek, and the Guardian. His highly acclaimed international study of depression, The Noonday Demon won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell ...
All about love - Lisa Appignanesi
November 25, 2014 12:14Lisa Appignanesi on love. Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She was Director of Talks and Seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where she stayed for ten years. While at the ICA she edited the Documents series, which included the books Postmodernism and Ideas from France. After becoming Deputy Director of the ICA in 1986, she created the ICA-Television branch, which produced England’s Henry Moore in 1988 and Seductions for Channel ...
Love bombing! - Oliver James
November 25, 2014 12:14 - 13.3 MBOliver James talks about parenting and love bombing. Oliver James trained and practised as a clinical child psychologist and, since 1988, has worked as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include the best-selling Affluenza, They F*** You Up, Love Bombing, Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks, and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. His newest...
A story of parenting - Clare Clark
November 25, 2014 12:14Clare Clark tells a story of parenting. Clare Clark is the award-winning author of five critically acclaimed novels: The Great Stink, The Nature of Monsters, Savage Lands, Beautiful Lies and, her latest, We That Are Left. 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.c...
Birds and people - Mark Cocker
November 17, 2014 10:30 - 13.7 MBMark Cocker talks about his love and passion for birds and his project birds and humans. Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s foremost writers on nature and contributes regularly to The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, as well as BBC Radio. His is the author of several books including the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica (with Richard Mabey) and Crow Country nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008. He has travelled the world in search of wildlife and won a Winston Churchill Trave...
Demon fish - Juliet Eilperin recorded at 5x15 New York
November 17, 2014 10:30Juliet Eilperin Washington Post reporter talks about demon fish. Juliet Eilperin joined The Washington Post as the House of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, lobbying, legislation, and four national congressional campaigns. Since April of 2004 she has covered the environment for the national desk, reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. Her recent book Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hid...
Bird Sense - Tim Birkhead
November 17, 2014 10:29Tim Birkhead speaks at the Wellcome Collection about bird sense. Tim Birkhead is a professor of behaviour and evolution at the University of Sheffield. His research on promiscuity and sperm competition in birds helped to re-shape current understanding of bird mating systems. His undergraduate teaching includes courses in animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science. Tim is committed to the public understanding of science and he has written for New Scientist, BBC Wildlife, Natu...
Feral - George Monbiot
November 17, 2014 10:28 - 16.4 MBGeorge Monbiot tells a tale about the power of rewilding. 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 lifelong obsession with whales - Philip Hoare
November 17, 2014 08:50 - 15.4 MBPhilip Hoare talks about his journeys with whales. An experienced broadcaster, curator and filmmaker, Philip Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, and curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read, www.mobydickbigread.com 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 5...
The life and poetry of Cavafy- Louis de Bernières
November 16, 2014 21:30 - 12.7 MBLouis de Bernières talks about the life and poetry of Cavafy. Louis 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 (...
A true story of Princess Alexandra Amalie of Bavaria - Deborah Levy
November 16, 2014 21:30Deborah Levy weaves a magical tale. Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including Pax and Heresies for the Royal Shakespeare, Deborah's early novels, Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography and The Unloved have just been reprinted by Penguin. Her new acclaimed autobiographical essay, Things I Don't Want to Know, a response to Orwell's essay, Why ...
A poet's journey around Britain's service stations - Luke Wright
November 16, 2014 21:30Luke Wright on a poet's journey around Britain's service stations. Luke Wright is one of the country's hottest young poets. His debut theatre show Luke Wright, Poet Laureate, played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006, racking up many five star reviews and paving the way for a 25+ date UK tour in 2007. Then followed Poet&Man, A Poet's Work is Never Done and most recently The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright. In all his shows Wright mixes poetry with anecdotal stand-up. Luke has curated The Po...
The power of poetry - Edward Hirsch recorded at 5x15 in New York
November 16, 2014 21:22 - 11 MBEdward Hirsch on the power of poetry. Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for 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
Poetry to live by - Daisy Goodwin
November 16, 2014 21:20 - 14.8 MBDaisy Goodwin on poetry to live by. Daisy Goodwin is a writer and television producer. After reading history at Cambridge, she went to Columbia Film School as a Harkness Fellow. After ten years at the BBC making arts documentaries, she left to join the independent sector and created a number of programmes including Grand Designs which is now in its 18th year on Channel 4. In 2005 she started Silver River productions, which she sold to Sony in 2012. Alongside her tv work , Daisy has written a...
Being mortal - a conversation with Atul Gawande and Will Self
November 06, 2014 12:20 - 71.6 MBAtul Gawande and Will Self speak about what matters in the end. In his book Being Mortal author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Atul Gawande is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of four books. He is Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He's interviewed by be...
What's the pig idea? - Tristram Stuart
November 03, 2014 10:42 - 16.7 MBThe epidemic of food waste. Tristram Stuart is a pioneering UK based Food Waste campaigner who wants to reduce the environmental impact of Food Waste around the 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
A life of passion about food - Prue Leith
November 03, 2014 10:39 - 13.2 MBPrue Leith on her life and passion for food. Prue Leith has been a restaurateur, chef, caterer, television broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer, novelist and is now presenter of Great British Bake Off. 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...
Dinner with Mr Darcy - Pen Vogler
November 03, 2014 10:36Pen Vogler has dinner with Mr Darcy. Pen Vogler works in publishing and is the editor of Penguin's Great Food series. She has given talks and tastings on food in history, including on meals and dining in the Georgian era, throughout the UK. She has appeared on television, cooking and discussing recipes, including on Mrs Dickens' Family Christmas on BBC2 with Sue Perkins. She has also written on the subject for the Guardian, the Observer, and The Lady. Pen has published three books, the first...
On food - Mark Hix in conversation with Rosie Boycott
November 03, 2014 10:33 - 13.7 MBMark Hix in conversation with Rosie Boycott. Mark Hix is an English chef and restaurateur. He is known for his original take on British gastronomy. After 17 years as Chef Director at Caprice Holdings, he opened his first restaurant in 2008 – the distinguished HIX Oyster & Chop House in Farringdon. Following the success of Chop House Mark opened HIX Mayfair, HIX Soho, HIX City and his chicken and steak concept restaurants Tramshed in Shoreditch, and Hixter Bankside. In autumn of 2015 Mark ope...
The food of Italy - Claudia Roden
November 03, 2014 10:31 - 14.7 MBClaudia Roden on the food of Italy at 5x15. Claudia Roden was born and brought up in Cairo, and educated in Paris and in London, where she has lived for many years. Widely admired as both a great cook and a fine writer, she is world-renowned for authoring classic cookbooks, such as Arabesque and The Book of Jewish Food. Claudia meticulously researches each book and draws upon her Jewish heritage and extensive travelling to create comprehensive guides to some of the world’s greatest cuisines....
Running away with the circus - Katie Hickman
November 03, 2014 09:06Running away to the circus in Mexico. Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family and spent the first 25 years of her life living in Europe, the Far East and South America. Her first book, Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon (1987), an account of a journey on horseback across the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, was followed by The Quetzal Summer (1992), a novel about love and death in the Andes. In 1993 she published a second travel book, A Trip to the Light Fantastic, an account of a year spent ...
Geoff Dyer - a journey on the quiet carriage
November 03, 2014 09:04 - 81.5 MBGeoff Dyer recalls a journey on the quiet carriage. Geoff Dyer is an acclaimed author, humourist and essayist. He's author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, which have won many literary awards and been translated into 24 languages. 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 F...
From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
November 03, 2014 09:04 - 14.5 MBWriter Cheryl Strayed recalls her journey into the wild hiking the Pacific Crest Trail on her own, with no preparation and a pair of ill fitting shoes. Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host and the author of Wild. 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/5x15s...
Under another sky: journeys in Roman Britain - Charlotte Higgins
November 03, 2014 09:03 - 15 MBCharlotte Higgins takes a journey in ancient Britain. Charlotte Higgins is the chief arts writer for the Guardian. She is the writer of Latin Love Lessons (2007), on the subject of the place of Ovid in contemporary life, It's All Greek to Me (2008), and most recently Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain (2013). She writes regularly on classical music. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no sc...
Journeys to China - AC Grayling
November 03, 2014 09:03 - 12.4 MBPhilosopher AC Grayling journeys to China. Anthony Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and other subjects. For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and now writes a column for the Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and ...
The Hack Attack - How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch - Nick Davies
October 22, 2014 09:08 - 15.6 MBInvestigative journalist Nick Davies on power, corruption and hacking. The definitive story on how the News of the World phone-hacking scandal reached the highest echelons of power in the government, security, and the media in the UK, from the world leading investigative journalist who broke the story. 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 even...
On the Matchbox Theatre - Michael Frayn
October 22, 2014 09:07 - 15.8 MBMichael Frayn on his Matchbox Theatre. Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. 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: ww...
Becoming the story - Giles Duley
October 22, 2014 09:06 - 16.7 MBGiles Duley talks about the crisis in Syria and the plight of disabled refugees. 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
An amorous discourse from the suburbs of hell - Deborah Levy
October 22, 2014 09:05 - 14.6 MBDeborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including Pax, Heresies for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Clam, Call Blue Jane, Shiny Nylon, Honey Baby Middle England, Pushing the Prince into Denmark and Macbeth-False Memories, some of which are published in Levy: Plays 1. Deborah wrote and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants, when she was 27 years o...
The story of Cox - DBC Pierre
October 22, 2014 09:05 - 14.7 MBDBC Pierre tells the story of his friend Cox, who has inspired his writing. DBC Pierre was the surprise-outsider who won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for his debut novel Vernon God Little, a dark satire set in the aftermath of a Texas high school massacre published in 2003. He was born in 1961 in Reynella, Australia. He was brought up in Mexico and the UK, and now lives in County Leitrim, Ireland. He worked previously as a designer and an internationally published cartoonist. 5x15 brings t...
Charles Spencer - Tells the stories of the regicides of King Charles I
October 22, 2014 09:03 - 13.8 MBCharles Spencer is the author of several acclaimed books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Blenheim: The Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for History Book of the Year at the National Book Awards, and Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier. His most recent book is The Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I. 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 e...
On doubt - Will Self
October 15, 2014 12:56 - 13.6 MBWill Self began writing fiction after graduating from Oxford University, and worked as a cartoonist for the New Statesman and the London listings magazine City Limits. In 1993 he was chosen as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, and his fiction includes the short-story collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity (which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), and novels such as How the Dead Live, Cock and Bull and Umbrella. His non-fiction includes Perfidious Man, featuring photo...
Journeys in the American interior - Gruff Rhys
July 21, 2014 13:42 - 19.1 MBGruff Rhys is known around the world for his work as a solo artist as well as singer and songwriter with Super Furry Animals and Neon Neon, and for his collaborations with Gorillaz, Mogwai, Dangermouse and Sparklehorse amongst others. For his latest multimedia project he has retraced the fantastical adventure of his 18th Century relative, the explorer John Evans. In search of a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans, John Evans left Wales for America in 1792 with only a $1.75 in his po...