5x15
676 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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Roger Robinson - A Portable Paradise
June 17, 2020 13:03 - 14 minutes - 11.6 MBRoger Robinson is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019 and RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the Black-British writing canon. His latest collection ‘A Portable Paradise’ was a New Statesman book of the year. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, The Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, commended by the Forward Poetry Prize and is currently shortl...
Ben Okri on collaboration
June 12, 2020 09:16 - 14 minutes - 142 MBBen Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. 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: w...
Parwana Fayyaz reads Forty Names
June 11, 2020 15:39 - 6 minutes - 5.83 MBParwana Fayyaz was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. on the medieval Persian poet Jami at Trinity College, Cambridge. She is a poet and would like to stay in academia. She recently won Best Single Poem at the Forward Prizes 2019 for her poem ‘Forty Names’, which draws inspiration from both narrative and lyrical medieval Persian traditions, and brings to life a story that Fayyaz heard from her parents when she was a child. ‘It is about a mountain called kohi ...
The Genius of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
May 26, 2020 11:07 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBJennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for 30 years and is the author of eight books. Her most recent book is The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, forthcoming from Penguin Press in May 2020. Jennifer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including an NEA Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her work aims to explain and interpret science for...
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature - Patrick Barkham
May 22, 2020 10:40 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBPatrick Barkham is the natural history writer for the Guardian. He is the author of the books The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Coastlines, Islander and Wild Child. He has been interviewed on Radio 4 and Radio 2 and has written for a wide range of media outlets, as well as co-editing the ‘People’s Manifesto for Wildlife’ with Chris Packham and Robert Macfarlane. He lives in Norfolk with his family. Recorded at our second online 5x15 in May 2020. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individ...
Coronavirus, the global food system and where we go from here - Michael Pollan and Rosie Boycott
May 20, 2020 08:51 - 14 minutes - 12.8 MBFor more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. He is the author of the multiple New York Times best sellers, including How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013), Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010); I...
It's time for a Great Reset - George Monbiot
May 20, 2020 08:48 - 13 minutes - 11.8 MBGeorge Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human life and Heat: how to stop the planet burning; his latest is Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan; and has made a number of viral videos. One of them, adapted from his 2013 TED talk, How Wolves Change Rivers, has been viewed on YouT...
Around the World in 80 Trees - Jonathan Drori
May 05, 2020 10:15 - 16 minutes - 14.1 MBRecorded at the 5x15 zoom online event on 20th April, 2020. This wonderful talk by Jonathan Drori contained pictures of trees. We listed the names of the trees mentioned in his presentation slides below and we hope this would help you follow his talk better, enjoy! 00:44:00 Dieffenbachia/ Dumb Cane (US) 01:49:00 Opium Poppy 02:53:00 Wax Palm (Colombia), Quiver tree (Namibia), Banyan Tree, Dragon Tree (Socotra), Baobab tree (Madagascar) 03:31:00 Coastal Redwood, (other trees shown in slide...
On the Road in America - James Naughtie
May 02, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes - 14.8 MBRecorded from the first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020. James Naughtie, special correspondent for BBC News, is one of the country's best-known broadcasters. He presented Today on Radio 4 for 21 years, and has reported for the BBC from around the world for more than three decades. Alongside his journalism he has wide cultural interests, and has written and produced many documentaries on music and books, and presented concerts from across Europe for radio and television. On Radio 4, he h...
House of Glass - The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family - Hadley Freeman
April 30, 2020 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBRecorded at the first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020. Hadley Freeman grew up in New York City and London. She has been a staff writer at the Guardian since 2000 and has contributed to many other publications, including Vogue (US and UK.) House of Glass is her fourth book. She lives in London with her partner and their three children. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 mi...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles through time
April 28, 2020 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBRecorded at the very first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020. One Two Three Four is Craig Brown's latest brilliant book. It's a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the break-up of the Beatles. Craig Brown is the author of 18 books, and a prolific journalist. He has been writing his parodic diary in Private Eye ...
Notes from an Apocalypse- Mark O'Connell
April 26, 2020 13:04 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MBRecorded at the very first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020 Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine, which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Royal Society Insight Investment Book Prize. He has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, Slate, the New York Times among others, and been interviewed on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4 and NPR. He lives in Dublin with his family. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell ...
Uncharted, how to map the future together - Margaret Heffernan
April 24, 2020 13:45 - 13 minutes - 11.7 MBRecorded at the first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020. Margaret Heffernan is one of the UK’s most highly regarded thought leaders. An entrepreneur, CEO and keynote speaker, she is the also author of five previous books: Beyond Measure, A Bigger Prize, Wilful Blindness, Women on Top and The Naked Truth. The best-selling Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times, and was shortlisted fo...
Transcendence - How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - Gaia Vince
March 21, 2020 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBGaia Vince on Transcendence - How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time. Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the wo...
Fascism and how to fight it - Paul Mason
March 18, 2020 08:00 - 16 MBPaul Mason is the Economics Editor of Newsnight. He was born in Greater Manchester 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 Afri...
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss - Rachel Clarke
March 16, 2020 08:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBBefore going to medical school, Dr Rachel Clarke was a television journalist and documentary maker. She now specialises in palliative medicine, caring deeply about helping patients live the end of their lives as fully and richly as possible – and in the power of human stories to build empathy and inspire change.Her first book, the Sunday Times bestselling Your Life in My Hands, revealed what life is like for a junior doctor on the NHS frontline. Her new memoir, Dear Life is based on her work ...
People Like Us: Social Mobility, Inequality And Making It In Modern Britain - Hashi Mohamed
March 14, 2020 08:00 - 16 minutes - 21.8 MBHashi Mohamed arrived in Britain at the age of nine as a child refugee, and is now a barrister at No5 Chambers in London. He is also a broadcaster, having appeared on BBC Radio 4, and presented Adventures in Social Mobility (April 2017) and Macpherson: What Happened Next (2019). He is also a contributor to the Guardian, The Times and Prospect. He mentors many young people at various stages of their career and is also a trustee of Big Education, a trust which oversees three inspirational schoo...
The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold
March 12, 2020 08:00 - 22 MBHallie Rubenhold is a bestselling author, social historian, broadcaster and historical consultant for TV and film. Her most recent book, The Five; The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Doubleday, 2019) is this year’s winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. The Five is a work of women’s social history, following her books Lady Worsely’s Whim, The Scandalous Lady W (turned into a BBC drama) and Harris’ List of Covent Garden Ladies (which inspired The Mermaid and ...
Five Rules for Rebellion - How to be an activist - Sophie Walker
March 09, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16 MBSophie Walker is a feminist activist, founding leader of the Women’s Equality Party, and recently-appointed chief executive of Young Women’s Trust, the charity representing and supporting women aged 18-30 who are living on no or low pay. She is passionate about rebuilding society for and with (extra)ordinary women. 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 ab...
I'm a Joke and So Are You - Robin Ince
March 07, 2020 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MBRobin Ince is many things. A comedian, an author, a broadcaster and a populariser of scientific ideas. The Guardian once declared him a ‘becardiganed polymath’ which seems about right. He is probably best known as the co-host of the Sony Gold Award winning BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox. He also co-hosts the podcast Robin and Josie’s Book Shambles, which gains over 100,000 listeners a month, which is part of The Cosmic Shambles Network, which he also co-c...
How to be Right... in a world gone wrong - James O'Brien
March 04, 2020 08:30 - 14 minutes - 19 MBJames O’Brien is a Sunday Times Bestselling author and LBC Radio Presenter. He has presented BBC Two’s Newsnight and his own daytime talk show O’Brien on ITV. His daily current affairs phone-in show on LBC has 1.2 million weekly listeners and his new, award-winning podcast, Full Disclosure, has been downloaded four million times. How To Be Right is his first book. Recorded on 10th Feb 2020 at EartH Hackney. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions a...
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia - Tracey Thorn in conversation with Georgina Godwin
March 01, 2020 08:30 - 18 minutes - 24.3 MBTracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school. Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles. Her books, include the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, ...
The rules of contagion - why things spread and why they stop - Adam Kucharski
February 28, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBIn his new book The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - And Why They Stop, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski reveals how mathematical approaches transform what we know about contagion. Adam Kucharski is an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A mathematician by training, his work on global outbreaks such as the Ebola epidemic and the Zika virus has taken him from villages in the Pacific Islands to hospitals in Latin America. He is a TED fellow and winner o...
The Poetry Pharmacy - William Sieghart on Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
February 13, 2020 12:54William Sieghart is here with Shahidha Bari to talk about his tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul in The Poetry Pharmacy. William Sieghart is a philanthropist and publisher. He is the founder of National Poetry Day, the Forward Poetry Prize, the Big Arts Week, Bedtime Reading Week and co-founded StreetSmart: Action for the Homeless in 1998. In 2012, he edited a collection of British poems called Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life, to tie in with the London...
The Poetry Pharmacy - William Sieghart and Shahidha Bari
February 13, 2020 12:54 - 17.6 MBWilliam Sieghart is here with Shahidha Bari to talk about his tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul in The Poetry Pharmacy. William Sieghart is a philanthropist and publisher. He is the founder of National Poetry Day, the Forward Poetry Prize, the Big Arts Week, Bedtime Reading Week and co-founded StreetSmart: Action for the Homeless in 1998. In 2012, he edited a collection of British poems called Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life, to tie in with the London...
Flo Perry: How to have feminist sex - 5x15 Bristol
February 10, 2020 09:20We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our bodies uninhibited, we worry about our bikini lines, bulging tummies and whether we're doing it 'right'. Flo broaches everything from faking it to consent, stress to kink, and how losing your virginity...
Sally Earthrowl: Sailing and Science, the story of eXXpedition - 5x15 Bristol
February 10, 2020 09:20Sally is Mission Leader for eXXpedition, an organisation running all-female sailing voyages re-searching plastic pollution. Having sailed across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2018, Sally now leads these voyages as part of eXXpedition Round the World and has recently returned from a mission sailing across the Caribbean Sea. Audio production: Bruce Guthriehttps://www.avonside.studio/
Mac Macartney: The power of conscious choice - 5x15 Bristol
February 10, 2020 09:20 - 12.9 MBMac Macartney is an author, an activist, and an international speaker. He is the founder of Embercombe in Devon, a centre which seeks to explore and promote the profound regeneration of land, society, and people Over a period of twenty years Mac was mentored by a group of indigenous elders. During this training and ever since, he has attempted to bring two worlds together – an ancient world-view that emphasises relationship, interdependence, and reverence for life with the significant challe...
Lucy Ann Holmes: We need to talk about wanking - 5x15 Bristol
February 10, 2020 09:19Lucy-Anne Holmes is a writer and activist. She is, among other things, author of comic sex memoir 'Don't Hold My Head Down' and founder of the successful No More Page 3 campaign. She will be talking about wanking and how to self pleasure your way to healing, empowerment and bliss. Audio production: Bruce Guthrie https://www.avonside.studio/
Billy Bragg: Can music change the world?
February 05, 2020 21:40 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBHas music lost its vanguard role? Billy Bragg is here to talk about the role of music in shaping our world, past present and future. Stephen William ‘Billy’ Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and getting the younger generation involved in grass-roots activist causes. His book Roots, Radicals...
Jeremy Irons: How I approach poetry
January 30, 2020 16:49 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBJeremy Irons talks about his method of approaching poetry. Jeremy Irons won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bülow in 1990’s Reversal of Fortune. He is also a Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, and Screen Actors Guild award winner. His film highlights include The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), The Mission (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Damage (1992), M. Butterfly (1993), and Lolita (1997). Jeremy Irons received a Tony for his performance in Tom Stoppard’s play The R...
Poetry is life - Jackie Kay
January 27, 2020 14:37 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBJackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was praised ...
Poetry is life! Jackie Kay : The Scots Makar — the National Poet for Scotland
January 27, 2020 14:37Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was praised ...
Jackie Kay : The Scots Makar — the National Poet for Scotland
January 27, 2020 14:37Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was praised ...
Under the Wire - war photographer Paul Conroy on his time in Syria with Marie Colvin
January 23, 2020 10:45 - 15.2 MBPaul Conroy is a British freelance photographer and filmmaker who works in the British media. A former soldier with the Royal Artillery between 1980 and 1987, he has since worked extensively as a journalist in combat zones, producing footage from conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Libya. In 2011 he was shortlisted for the PRX Bayeux TV report along with Marie Colvin, the war correspondent with The Sunday Times. On 22 February 2012 during the Syrian uprising, Conroy was injured whil...
Under the Wire - war photographer Paul Conroy on his time in Syria
January 23, 2020 10:45Paul Conroy is a British freelance photographer and filmmaker who works in the British media. A former soldier with the Royal Artillery between 1980 and 1987, he has since worked extensively as a journalist in combat zones, producing footage from conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Libya. In 2011 he was shortlisted for the PRX Bayeux TV report along with Marie Colvin, the war correspondent with The Sunday Times. On 22 February 2012 during the Syrian uprising, Conroy was injured whil...
The Wichita Lineman: the World’s Greatest Unfinished Song - Dylan Jones
January 19, 2020 17:11 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBNew York Times best-selling author Dylan Jones has written twenty books on subjects as diverse as music and politics and fashion and photography. He has been an editor at The Observer, The Sunday Times, i-D, The Face and Arena, a columnist for The Guardian and The Independent, and is currently the Editor-In-Chief of GQ. He has won Magazine Editor of the Year eleven times. Story recorded live at 5x15 at The Tabernacle in October 2019. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell...
How to Have Feminist Sex - Flo Perry
January 12, 2020 19:49 - 12.4 MBFlo Perry is a writer and illustrator who has managed to make a career out of her passion for drawing breasts and penchant for quizzing people on their sex lives at parties. She’s a proud bisexual who fancies nearly all human beings and assumes everyone fancies her. As such, she’s good at dealing with rejection. Perry is a former BuzzFeed editor and expert on making illustrations go viral. Before that she did a degree in chemistry; we can all agree that was a mistake. She was born and raised ...
The book of play - Michael Rosen
January 07, 2020 09:54 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB“Play for me is trial and error without fear of failure" Michael Rosen talks at 5x15 about his new work: The Book of Play. Michael Rosen is one of the best-loved figures in the children’s book world, renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and education campaigner. His bestselling books include We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book and Totally Wonderful Miss Plumberry. He is a poet, broadcaster, former Children’s Laureate and a recipient of one of France’s top h...
David Nott - The War Doctor - Surgery on the Front Line
January 03, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBDavid Nott is a Welsh consultant surgeon, specializing in general and vascular surgery. He works mainly in London hospitals, but for more than twenty-five years he has also volunteered to work in disaster and war zones. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours and in 2016 he received the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award and the Pride of Britain Award. Since 2015, the foundation he set up with his wife, Elly, has disseminated the knowledge he h...
A Short History of London - The Creation of a World Capital - Simon Jenkins
December 30, 2019 12:08 - 17.2 MBSimon Jenkins is a journalist, author and chairman of the National Trust. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the London Evening Standard. He edited the Evening Standard and The Times, was political editor of The Economist, and worked on Country Life and The Sunday Times. He has served on the boards of British Rail, London Transport and the Museum of London, and was deputy chairman of English Heritage. His books have ranged across London, the press, Welsh architect...
A Roughride to the Future - James Lovelock and John Gray
December 14, 2019 10:09 - 55 minutes - 75.2 MBFrom our archive: Recorded live in London in 2014 at 5x15 at Conway Hall. James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), and The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen, in 2005 Prospect magazine...
Michael Morpurgo on Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver
December 10, 2019 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBMichael Morpurgo is one of the UK’s best-loved authors and storytellers. He was appointed Children’s Laureate in May 2003, a post he helped to set up with his friend Ted Hughes in 1999. He was awarded an OBE for services to Literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2007. He has written over 130 books with world sales of over 34 million copies. Many of Michael’s books have been adapted for the stage. These include Private Peaceful, Kensuke’s Kingdom, I Believe in Unicorns and The Mozart Qu...
Three women- Lisa Taddeo on love, sex and desire in conversation with Hadley Freeman
December 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBLisa Taddeo’s Three Women is a world-wide sensation – forever changing how we think about women and desire. All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to wa...
John Humphrys on A Day Like Today in conversation with Rosie Boycott
December 04, 2019 13:16 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBJohn Humphrys was the voice of Radio 4’s Today programme for over three decades. Written to coincide with his retirement from the BBC, his memoir, A Day Like Today, brings all of Humphrys’ formidable intellect and insight to bear on the state of politics and current affairs in the United Kingdom. Charting John's life from his Cardiff childhood, through to the ups and downs of his life as a journalist covering Watergate and apartheid South Africa, his time presenting the BBC Nine O'Clock News,...
One more croissant for the road - Felicity Cloake
December 02, 2019 00:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MBFelicity Cloake is the writer of the Guardian's 'How to Make the Perfect…' cookery feature. She is also a New Statesman columnist; winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Food Journalist of the Year and New Media awards 2011; and author of books including Perfect: 68 Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire, Perfect Host: 162 Easy Recipes for Feeding People & Having Fun, Perfect Too, and The A-Z of Eating. One More Croissant for the Road (Mudlark, 2019) saw the nation’s ‘taster in chief’ c...
Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. - Jess Phillips
November 14, 2019 15:03 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBJess Phillips MP is a Labour Party politician and has been MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. As The Times has said: 'There's nobody else at Westminster quite like Jess Phillips. She is fearless and funny, riotous and rebellious, maverick and mischievous.' Prior to becoming an MP, Jess worked within the charity and community sectors. She talks about her book Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. Recorded at 5x15 live in London at EartH Hackney on 8th October 2019. 5x15 brings toge...
Why women should tell the stories of humanity - Jude Kelly
November 11, 2019 00:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBJude Kelly is a creative director and Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre from 2006-2018. Jude has created an incredible portfolio of Festivals including: Being A Man, Unlimited, The Rest is Noise, Changing Britain, the Festival of Death, (B)old, as well as WOW- Women of the World. WOW is a global festival movement and has held 65 festivals in 5 continents over 30 locations in over 15 countries from Baltimore to Brazil, Cardiff to Karachi, and further across the UK, Australia and the US...
Jack Harries tells his story of being part of Extinction Rebellion
November 04, 2019 00:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBJack Harries grew up in a family of filmmakers and storytellers. At the age eighteen he built up a successful YouTube channel and production company gaining over four million subscribers worldwide. Jack has used this platform consistently to raise awareness of mental health, forced migration and environmental issues. He has travelled all over the world to tell stories from the front lines of Climate Change. Recorded at 5x15 live in London at EartH Hackney on 8th October 2019. 5x15 brings t...
The State of the Union - Nick Hornby
October 30, 2019 00:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBNick Hornby is the author of the internationally bestselling novels many of which have been made into successful, and much-loved, films, including Fever Pitch starring Colin Firth, High Fidelity starring John Cusak and About a Boy with Hugh Grant. Nick has also scripted the adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education as well as Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. His book State of the Union is the companion novella to his new TV series directed by Stephen Frears on the BBC starring Chris O'Dowd and ...