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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Decline and Fail - Read in Case of Political Apocalypse - John Crace
October 28, 2019 13:30 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBJohn Crace who joins with his own personal guide to surviving the ongoing political apocalypse. He is of course beloved by us all as the Guardian's legendary parliamentary sketch writer and author of the ‘Digested Read’ columns. His latest book is Decline and Fail. He is the author of the previous books: I Maybot: The Rise and Fall and I Never Promised you a Rose Garden: A short guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election. Recorded live at EartH Hackney in London on 8th...
Surfers Against Sewage - Hugo Tagholm
October 17, 2019 10:34 - 13.9 MBHugo Tagholm is Chief Executive of the national marine conservation and campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS). The charity takes action from the beach front to the front benches of Parliament, where it unites a voice for the ocean through its Ocean Conservation All Party Parliamentary Group. It mobilises over 100,000 community beach and river clean volunteers annually and has been instrumental in helping introduce and enforce new government legislation to protect our seas. He is an...
The art of natural navigation - Tristan Gooley
October 08, 2019 08:59 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBTristan Gooley is an author and natural navigator. Tristan set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of the award-winning books, The Natural Navigator (2010), The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs (2014), How to Read Water (2016) and Wild Signs and Star Paths (2018), some of the world’s only books covering natural navigation. He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and many magazines. Tristan has led expeditions in f...
How to Live Vegan with Bosh!
September 30, 2019 12:14 - 13.5 MBBOSH! Lifelong friends from Sheffield, Henry and Ian are the guys behind BOSH! – the biggest plant-based video channel on Facebook. Totally powered by plants, BOSH! create mouth-watering meat- and dairy-free recipes that are shared across the globe, reaching over 26 million people a month. Their debut cookbook, BOSH! (April 2018) was the bestselling cookery debut of 2018 and is still the highest selling vegan cookbook of all time. It was shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards and...
That Will Never Work - The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea - Marc Randolph
September 30, 2019 11:57 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBMarc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors. Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He’s founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs including the co-founders of Looker Data which was r...
The Dutch House: Ann Patchett In Conversation with Mariella Frostrup
September 26, 2019 18:07 - 1 hour - 735 MBIn her only UK appearance of 2019, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett was in conversation with Mariella Frostrup at 5x15. One of the most powerful, wise and witty voices in literary fiction today. Only a select few writers alive today have achieved the critical acclaim and global renown of the American novelist Ann Patchett. Her rare insight into the human condition has made her a household name and earned her a place on Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 Most Influen...
Period: It's about bloody time - Emma Barnett and Claire Cohen in conversation
September 19, 2019 17:20 - 67.4 MBAt a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still one taboo where there remains a deafening silence: periods. Emma Barnett loathes her period. Really, she does. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it. Freely, funnily and honestly. But somehow, despite women having had periods since the dawn of time, we’ve totally clammed up on anything to do with menstruation. Emma draws on female experiences that ...
Cloudspotting with Gavin Pretor-Pinney 5x15 at Wilderness
September 15, 2019 10:53 - 12.7 MBGavin Pretor-Pinney is a writer and cloud-watcher. In 1993, he co-founded The Idler magazine, described by Time Out as 'the world's finest periodical'. In 2004 he founded the Cloud Appreciation Society, and wrote its inaugural publication The Cloudspotter's Guide (2006), which went on to become an international bestseller. His book on the waves that we experience in our everyday lives through the body, through music, colour and those of nature, The Wavewatcher's Companion (2010), was the winn...
The global food waste scandal - Tristram Stuart 5x15 at Wilderness
September 09, 2019 14:20 - 11.9 MBTristram Stuart is an international award-winning author, speaker, campaigner and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food waste. His books have been described as "a genuinely revelatory contribution to the history of human ideas” (The Times) and his TED talk has been watched over a million times. The environmental campaigning organisation he founded, Feedback, has spread its work into dozens of countries worldwide to change society's attitude towards wasting food. He is also th...
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World - Nick Crane at 5x15 at Wilderness
August 31, 2019 09:10 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBNick is an author and broadcaster whose books and TV films explore geographical themes. In recent years, he has become best known for presenting the BBC2 TV series Coast, Map Man, Great British Journeys, Nicholas Crane’s Britannia and Town. His books include Clear Waters Rising, Two Degrees West and Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet. Published in 2016, The Making of the British Landscape has been praised by the critics as ‘Ambitious, magnificent’ (Guardian); ‘Storytelling at its best’ (...
How to Own the Room - Viv Groskop
August 21, 2019 09:34 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBViv Groskop is a writer, critic, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. She has presented Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4, is a regular on BBC1’s This Week and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Jo Brand and Jennifer Saunders. Groskop’s books include The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature, and How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking. She is currently writing a self-help memoir titled Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from Frenc...
Superior - The Return of Race Science - Angela Saini
July 31, 2019 21:27 - 19.3 MBAngela Saini talks about Superior, which tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Rich...
Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker and Amol Rajan
July 09, 2019 21:17 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBSteven Pinker in conversation with Amol Rajan on Enlightenment Now. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Stanford and MIT. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his nine books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind...
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells - Pico Iyer
July 08, 2019 13:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBPico Iyer was born in Oxford, England in 1957, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard. He is the author of eight works of nonfiction and two novels. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, and many other magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. He splits his time between Nara, Japan, and the United States. Autumn Light, his latest book, is a far-r...
David Baddiel and Elif Shafak on Humour And Despair
July 04, 2019 09:41 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBToday, in a world full of uncertainties, it’s hard to know whether to laugh, or cry. Both humour and despair are deeply human reactions to the age we live in, especially to the politics of our times. But why is it that we turn to jokes in our darkest moments or continue to seek refuge in stories when we feel at our loneliest? And how are the two seemingly contradictory emotions of humour and melancholy connected? A podcast of a 5x15 evening in London with two eminent voices exploring our hum...
Afropean: Notes on Black Europe - Johny Pitts
July 03, 2019 11:12 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBJohny Pitts is the founder of Afropean.com, an online user-generated journal which is part of the Guardian’s ‘Africa Network’. In October 2018, Pitts organised the Looking B(l)ack Symposium at the Bozar cultural centre in Brussels, which was a weekend of talks and performances dedicated to the notion of Black Travel. Pitts has received various awards for his work exploring African-European identity, including a Decibel Penguin Prize and an ENAR (European Network Against Racism) award. In 2012...
To Kill the Truth - Jonathan Freedland
June 24, 2019 18:16 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBJonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, who also writes bestselling novels under the pseudonym, Sam Bourne. Jonathan writes for the Guardian, the New York Times and New York Review of Books, and has a monthly column in the Jewish Chronicle. He also presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View. Jonathan was named Columnist of the Year in the annual What the Papers Say Awards of 2002 and in 2008 he was awarded the David Watt prize for journalism. ...
Unicorn - Amrou Al-Kadhi
June 23, 2019 17:10 - 13.7 MBProfessional Unicorn. Queer Iraqi non-binary Brit. In 2018, Amrou was selected as a Screen International Star of Tomorrow, and was one of the 6 BFI/BAFTA Flare LGBTQ+ emerging filmmakers of 2017. Amrou is a filmmaker and has a first feature in development, Layla, with Film4, is produced by Savannah James-Bayly. Previously, Amrou has written/directed four short films, including Anemone (BBC Films & Film London), Run(a)way Arab, (Peccadillo Pictures & Revry), Victoria Sin, (NOWNESS, Revry), and...
No Longer an "Almost" Kid - Nikesh Shukla
June 17, 2019 11:01 - 14.2 MBNikesh Shukla is a writer. His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited, was published by Quartet Books and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. In 2011 he co-wrote an essay about the London riots for Random House with Kieran Yates, Generation Vexed: What the Riots Don't Tell Us About Our Nation's Youth. In 2013 he released a novella about food with Galley Beggars Press, The Time Machine, donating his royalties to Roy Castle Lung Cancer Fou...
How To Change Your Mind- the new science of psychedelics- Michael Pollan And John Crace
June 09, 2019 18:01 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBJoin 5x15 on a mind-altering adventure with the pioneering, genre-busting writer Michael Pollan in conversation with John Crace. Delving into states of consciousness, looking at the latest brain science and visiting the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists, we’ll immerse ourselves in what is a major new field of therapeutic research. In his thrilling chronicle How to Change Your Mind, we meet the scientists, professionals, seekers and patients exploring the effects of LSD...
Clear Bright Future - Paul Mason
June 05, 2019 11:17 - 13.3 MBPaul Mason is recognised as an influential public intellectual across Europe. He commands large audiences among both grass-roots movements and institutions alike, filling halls of hundreds, sometimes thousands, from Amsterdam to Berlin, Seattle to Zagreb, Sydney and Seoul. Previously economics editor of Channel 4 and BBC Newsnight, he is an award-winning writer, broadcast and film maker. Since the publication of his Sunday Times bestseller PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, his Twitter fo...
All That Remains - Sue Black
June 01, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBProfessor Dame Sue Black is a leading forensic anthropologist and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University. She confronts death every day. As a professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In her best-selling book All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has com...
The Perseverance - Ray Antrobus performs
May 30, 2019 10:00Raymond Antrobus was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father, and is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press) and The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins) which was awarded the UK Poetry Book Society’s Winter Choice in 2018 and was named a poetry book of the year by The Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being awarded the Ted Hughes award in 2019 and Rathbones Folio award in 2019. He’s also the author of children’s picture book, Bears Can Ski, which will be pub...
The Perseverance - Raymond Antrobus performs
May 30, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBRaymond Antrobus was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father, and is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press) and The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins) which was awarded the UK Poetry Book Society’s Winter Choice in 2018 and was named a poetry book of the year by The Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being awarded the Ted Hughes award in 2019 and Rathbones Folio award in 2019. He’s also the author of children’s picture book, Bears Can Ski, which will be pub...
Lost Connections: The real causes of depression - Johann Hari
May 29, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBJohann Hari is an internationally bestselling author. His first book, Chasing the Scream, was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a Hollywood feature film. His second book, Lost Connections, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and it looks at the underlying causes of depression. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and others, and he was twice named Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International. His TED Talk, ‘Everyt...
Rise - Gina Miller
May 28, 2019 10:00 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBGina Miller was the lead claimant in the 2016 constitutional legal case against the UK Government over triggering Article 50. Born and raised in Guyana, she went to boarding school in England at the age of eleven and went on to study Law at the University of East London, then Marketing at the University of North London. In 2009, she and her husband Alan Miller co-founded SCM Direct, a disruptive investment management company, and the True and Fair Foundation, the latter of which provides fund...
Judith Kerr in conversation with Rosie Boycott @ 5x15
May 27, 2019 18:23 - 15 minutes - 49.4 MBJudith Kerr was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family passed through Switzerland and France before arriving finally in England in 1936. Judith went to eleven different schools, worked in the Red Cross during the war, and won a scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1945. Since the...
Poetry From the Future - Srecko Horvat and Brian Eno with Rosie Boycott
May 25, 2019 11:32 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBRevolution can’t take its poetry from the past – but only from the future. On 14th May, at EartH Hackney, philosopher and activist Srećko Horvat was in conversation with the experimentalist, activist and artist Brian Eno, to discuss Horvat's new book Poetry From the Future. Is a global liberation movement the only way to save humanity? Poetry From the Future draws on myriad sources from contemporary culture, historical archives and stories of resistance from Horvat's own island in Croatia, as...
The incredible Judith Kerr at 5x15
May 23, 2019 16:46 - 16 minutes - 103 MBJudith Kerr's moving talk about marriage and her husband. Judith Kerr was born on 14 June 1923 in Berlin but escaped from Hitler's Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis. The family passed through Switzerland and France before arriving finally in England in 1936. Judith went to eleven different schools, worked in the Red Cross during the war, and won a scholarship ...
Murmur - Will Eaves - Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019
May 21, 2019 20:44 - 17.9 MBWill Eaves is the author of four novels and two collections of poetry. He was Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1995 to 2011, and now teaches at the University of Warwick. His shortlisted book, Murmur, takes its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing. Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we pe...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh - Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019
May 19, 2019 18:16 - 17 MBOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in the Paris Review and was granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book, the novella McGlue, was recently published by Vintage. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her collection of stories, Homesick for Another World, was published in 2017. Her shortlisted book is My Year of...
Mind on Fire - Arnold Thomas Fanning - Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019
May 18, 2019 14:54 - 119 MBArnold Thomas Fanning was born in London and raised in Dublin. His stage plays include the acclaimed McKenna’s Fort. Mind on Fire is his first book and is a searing, immersive account of profound mental illness – and recovery. Fanning had his first experience of depression during adolescence, following the death of his mother. In his 20s, he was overcome by mania and delusions. Drawing on his own memories, the recollections of people who knew him when he was at his worst, and medical records,...
Heart: A history - Sandeep Jauhar - Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019
May 17, 2019 13:15 - 15 MBSandeep Jauhar is director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. A first responder on 9/11, he is the New York Times bestselling author of two medical memoirs, Doctored: The disillusionment of an American physician and Intern: A doctor’s initiation. He is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their son and daughter. Heart: A history is his first book to be published in the UK. Jauhar was shortlisted for th...
The Trauma Cleaner - Sarah Krasnostein - Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019
May 15, 2019 15:29 - 12.7 MBSarah Krasnostein is a writer and a legal researcher with a doctorate in criminal law. She was born in America, studied in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived and worked in both countries. Her first book, The Trauma Cleaner, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards as well as the Australian Book Industry Award for General Non-Fiction. She lives in Melbourne and spends part of the year working in New York City. The Tr...
How can we harness tech for education - Priya Lakhani
May 13, 2019 20:56 - 14 MBPriya Lakhani is the founder CEO of CENTURY Tech. She has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum and was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009, The Mayor of London Fund’s Special Recognition Award 2016 and an OBE in 2014. A former barrister and founder of Masala Masala, she launched CENTURY Tech in 2015. It utilises artificial intelligence, big data and cognitive neuroscience to learn how every brain learns, personalise le...
Owen Jones on Education
May 08, 2019 09:13 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBOwen Jones is a columnist for the Guardian and a frequent broadcaster. He was born in Sheffield, grew up in Stockport, and studied history at Oxford. His first book, the international bestseller Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and chosen as one of the New York Times top 10 non-fiction books of 2011. In 2013 he received the Young Writer of the Year prize at the Political Book Award, and 2014 he published the acclaimed The Establis...
Some kids I taught - and what they taught me - Kate Clanchy and Mukhahang Limbu
May 06, 2019 13:53 - 19.5 MBKate Clanchy is a writer, poet, teacher and journalist. She has a thirty-year career in teaching and is the recipient of several awards for her writing including a Forward Prize for her poetry collection Slattern. Her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. Clanchy’s BBC Radio 3 programme We Are Writing A Poem About Home was a collaborative work with students and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2015. In 2018 an anthology of her students’ work, England: Poems fr...
Engines of Privilege - David Kynaston
May 05, 2019 18:58 - 13.2 MBRecorded live at Wilton's Music Hall London in April 2019. 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
Life Lessons - Melissa Benn
May 02, 2019 22:12 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBMelissa Benn is a writer, journalist and campaigner. She was educated at Holland Park comprehensive and the London School of Economics where she graduated with a First in history. Her essays and journalism have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Independent, The Times, Marxism Today, the London Review of Books and Cosmopolitan. A speaker and broadcaster, Benn is a regular contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman, and has written several acclaimed books, including Sch...
Only Americans Burn In Hell - Jarett Kobek & Stewart Lee
April 28, 2019 21:52 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBAs the news becomes ever more outlandish, how do we make sense of our current historical predicament and where are we heading? Cult American novelist Jarett Kobek has written a hilarious and provocative satire for our times: Only Americans Burn in Hell. Here at 5x15 he takes part in an unmissable conversation with acclaimed stand up comedian and writer Stewart Lee: an expert in satire this side of the Atlantic, and creator of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. The book is set in 2019 and America ...
Going in search of Mary Wollstonecraft - Bee Rowlatt
April 27, 2019 09:23 - 14.5 MBBee Rowlatt embarks on a remarkable journey in search of the feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft. Bee chairs a campaign to memorialise Wollstonecraft in Stoke Newington, Mary on the Green. Bee Rowlatt is a writer and journalist. The best-selling 'Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad' has been dramatised by the BBC, and translated into numerous languages. Bee contributed to Virago's Fifty Shades of Feminism, and has clocked over two decades at BBC World Service (now freelance). Bee’s publ...
What dementia teaches us about love - Nicci Gerrard
April 23, 2019 21:36 - 15 MBNicci Gerrard is a writer and campaigner and a celebrated novelist (writing with her husband as Nicci French) and recipient of the 2016 Orwell Prize for Journalism for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. She is also co-founder of John's Campaign, named after her father, which has campaigned to give carers of those with dementia the same rights as parents of children to accompany them in hospital. Recognised by NHS policy makers, charities, nurses, doctors and carers, almost every hospital in the...
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) - Scarlett Curtis
April 16, 2019 21:46 - 9 minutes - 9.02 MBScarlett Curtis is the curator of the Sunday Times Bestseller and National Book Award winning Feminists Don’t Wear Pink & other lies; a collection of essays by 52 women on what feminism means to them. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Vogue and is currently contributing editor at The Sunday Times Style. In 2017 Scarlett co-founded The Pink Protest; a feminist activist collective committed to helping young people take action online and IRL. To date they have b...
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the heart - Elif Shafak
April 12, 2019 21:38 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda C...
Poetry and performance - Farah Chamma
April 09, 2019 22:19 - 15 minutes - 14 MBFarah Chamma is Dubai-born Palestinian performer. She mainly writes and performs poetry in Arabic, English and French. She is currently doing an MA in Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths University in London. Her current goal is to create Arabic content that mixes Modern Standard Arabic (fus-ha) and colloquial Arabic. Recorded live at the EartH in London's Hackney on 19th March 2019. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn mor...
I will never see the world again - Philippe Sands
April 03, 2019 14:18 - 14 minutes - 12.8 MBPhilippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. Here he talks about his friend Ahmet Altan and his book: I Will Never See the World Again, written from inside a maximum security prison in Turkey. Philippe appears before many international courts and tribunals, including the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and sits as an arbitrator at ICSID, the PCA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. ...
On the future - Prospects for humanity - Martin Rees
March 31, 2019 21:52 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBMartin Rees is Astronomer Royal, and has been Master of Trinity College and Director of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University. As a member of the UK’s House of Lords and former President of the Royal Society, he is much involved in international science and issues of technological risk. His books include Our Cosmic Habitat (Princeton), Just Six Numbers, and Our Final Hour (published in the UK as Our Final Century). His latest book is a provocative and inspiring look at the future...
London Made Us - Robert Elms
March 27, 2019 09:40 - 16 minutes - 15 MBobert Elms is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. Elms started out as a journalist, writing for The Face and NME. He is a Londoner through and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for most of his life. Elms is the author of two previous works of non-fiction, The Way We Wore: A Life in Threads and Spain: A Portrait After the General, and a novel, In Search of the Crack. His new book is London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shapesh...
Not Working - Why We Have to Stop - Josh Cohen
March 24, 2019 19:14 - 14.6 MBJosh Cohen is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles on modern literature, psychoanalysis and cultural theory. His books include How to Read Freud and The Private Life and his latest book: Not Working: Why We Have to Stop. He has written for Guardian, New Statesman and TLS and appeared on BBC Radio 4. He lives in London. Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London's Notting...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read - Philippa Perry
March 17, 2019 12:55 - 15 minutes - 14 MBPhilippa Perry has been a psychotherapist for the past twenty years. Her latest book is: The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did). A faculty member of The School of Life, she is also an agony aunt for Red Magazine, a freelance writer, and a TV and radio presenter she has presented several documentaries including The Truth about Children Who Lie for BBC Radio 4 and Being Bipolar for Channel 4. Philippa featured in the highly popular dating show, Cel...