Katherine Rundell on Animals
21 Mar 2025
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We're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an ins...
Nick Makoha on The New Carthaginians
21 Mar 2025
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We're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an ins...
Carole Cadwalladr on How to Survive the Broligarchy
21 Mar 2025
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We're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an ins...
Suzanne O’Sullivan on The Age of Diagnosis
21 Mar 2025
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We're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an ins...
Jonathan Sumption on The Challenges of Democracy
21 Mar 2025
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We're back at The Tabernacle in March with another fantastic line-up of speakers! Join us for an ins...
Chloe Dalton on Raising Hare
25 Feb 2025
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernac...
Harriet Walter on She Speaks!
25 Feb 2025
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernac...
John Crace on Taking the Lead
25 Feb 2025
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernac...
Jonathan Freedland on King Winter's Birthday
25 Feb 2025
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernac...
Theresa Lola on Ceremony for the Nameless
25 Feb 2025
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Join us to celebrate 5x15's fifteenth birthday! To mark the occasion, we'll be back at The Tabernac...
Chris van Tulleken on Ultra-Processed Food
25 Feb 2025
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5x15 is delighted to welcome leading science broadcaster and doctor Chris van Tulleken for a special...
Sunil Amrith And John Vaillant On The Burning Earth
16 Dec 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce a special online event with two award-winning authors, the acclaimed Y...
Oliver Burkeman On Meditations For Mortals
25 Nov 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce a special online event with Oliver Burkeman, author of the internation...
Jonathan Haidt And Kirstie Allsopp On The Anxious Generation
11 Oct 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce a special online event with acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt and ...
Bella Mackie And Alexandra Heminsley On What A Way To Go
27 Sep 2024
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5x15 is thrilled to announce a special event with author and journalist Bella Mackie, whose bestsell...
Robin Wall Kimmerer And Alice Vincent, Live at Conway Hall
02 Aug 2024
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Due to phenomenal demand, 5x15 has programmed an additional London event with leading author and eco...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall On How To Eat 30 Plants A Week
29 Jul 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce a special event in June with beloved chef, writer and broadcaster Hugh...
George Monbiot On The Invisible Doctrine
26 Jul 2024
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Join 5x15 for an explosive online event with leading writer and thinker George Monbiot on his #1 Sun...
5x15 Presents: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Live at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
10 Jun 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce an exclusive event with leading author Robin Wall Kimmerer, in the bea...
Lauren Child On Smile
03 Jun 2024
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Lauren Child is an English children’s author and illustrator best known for her book series the Ch...
Dorian Lynskey On Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World
31 May 2024
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Dorian Lynskey writes about music, film, books and politics for publications including The Guardian,...
Clover Stroud On The Giant On The Skyline
27 May 2024
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Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist, writing regularly for The Sunday Times, The Guardian and T...
Johann Hari On Magic Pill
24 May 2024
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Johann Hari is the author of three previous internationally bestselling books, translated into 40 la...
Suzi Ronson On Me And Mr Jones
06 May 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Andrew O’Hagan On Caledonian Road
03 May 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster On Nostalgia: A Biography
29 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Philip Lymbery On Cultivated Meat: To Secure Our Future
26 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Henry Dimbleby On Ravenous
19 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Catherine Coldstream On Cloistered
15 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Colum McCann On American Mother
12 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Vincent Deary On How We Break- Navigating The Wear And Tear Of Living
08 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Chris Anderson On The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
05 Apr 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Emma Tarlo On Under The Hornbeams
29 Mar 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
John Vaillant On Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World
25 Mar 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Cathy Newman On The Ladder
22 Mar 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Jackie Morris On The Book Of Birds
18 Mar 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Paula Byrne On Hardy Women
15 Mar 2024
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
5x15 On Botanic Gardens Past And Future With Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building upon Kew's commitment to re-examine the history of its collections, this discussion explore...
5x15 And The Writers' Prize
07 Mar 2024
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5x15 and The Writers' Prize present a powerhouse line-up of international writing talent to speak wi...
Merlin Sheldrake On Entangled Life
09 Feb 2024
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5x15 is thrilled to announce a special event with multi-award-winning writer and biologist Merlin Sh...
Nina Stibbe And Cathy Rentzenbrink On Went to London, Took the Dog
05 Feb 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce a special event with Nina Stibbe, the 'funniest person who owns a comp...
5x15 In Collaboration With Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Regeneration
02 Feb 2024
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5x15 is delighted to announce the second event is our new events partnership with Rathbones, in coll...
David Grann On The Wager
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has written about everything from New York City'...
5x15 On Health And Nature With Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As plant-based diets gain popularity and outdoor activities like hiking and wild swimming become mor...
Andy Mitchell & Anil Seth On Psychedelics, Philosophy & Consciousness
22 Jan 2024
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5x15's new season kicks off in January with a special conversation about consciousness and the world...
Kassia St Clair On The Race To The Future
19 Jan 2024
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Kassia St Clair studied the history of women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth centur...
Paul Caruana Galizia On A Death In Malta
15 Jan 2024
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Paul Caruana Galizia became a reporter after his mother Daphne was assassinated and since then has w...
Rosamund Young On The Wisdom Of Sheep & Other Animals
12 Jan 2024
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Rosamund Young is the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows - named a Times book of the year...
Adam Sisman On The Secret Life Of John Le Carré
09 Jan 2024
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Adam Sisman is a writer specialising in biography, living in Bristol, England. He is the author of B...
5x15 And Keystone Present: Six Ideas To Change The World: Jeff Goodell On Heat
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Tr...
5x15 And Keystone Present: Six Ideas To Change The World: Elizabeth Kolbert on Plastics
06 Nov 2023
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The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Tr...
5x15 And Rathbones, In Collaboration With Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Nature's Diversity
02 Nov 2023
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The first event in 5x15's new series with Rathbones, in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Ke...
Marcus Du Sautoy and Alex Bellos on Games
30 Oct 2023
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When it comes to playing games, asking the right questions is everything. Where should you move firs...
Kate Humble and Helen Rebanks on Home
26 Oct 2023
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What is the meaning of home? As the nights begin to draw in and we head into the autumn, 5x15 is del...
Mark O’Connell On A Thread Of Violence
09 Oct 2023
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Sarah Ogilvie On The Dictionary People
05 Oct 2023
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Justine Picardie On Coco Chanel
02 Oct 2023
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Octavia Bright On This Ragged Grace: A Memoir Of Recovery And Renewal
28 Sep 2023
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Ed Yong On I Contain Multitudes
25 Sep 2023
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations....
Colm Tóibín And Seán Hewitt On A Guest At The Feast
18 Sep 2023
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5x15 welcomes Colm Tóibín, novelist, critic, essayist and one of the most highly acclaimed writers...
5x15 And Keystone Present: Six Ideas To Change The World: Gaia Vince On Migration
14 Sep 2023
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The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Tr...
Polly Morland And Rachel Clarke On A Fortunate Woman
11 Sep 2023
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In July, 5x15 is thrilled to welcome the highly acclaimed and best-selling authors Polly Morland and...
Dr Michael Mosley And Thomasina Miers On Just One Thing
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you were going to do just one thing to transform your health, what would it be? With the sheer a...
5x15 And Keystone Present: Tim Smedley And Alok Jha On Six Ideas To Change The World: Water
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Tr...
Lucy Jones And Amy Liptrot On Matrescence
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
5x15 is delighted to welcome two best-selling and award-winning authors back to our virtual stage. T...
Dr Janina Ramirez On Femina
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Janina Ramirez is an Oxford lecturer, BBC broadcaster, researcher and author. She has presented a...
Jeffrey Boakye On I Heard What You Said
11 Jul 2023
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Jeffrey Boakye is an author, broadcaster, educator and journalist with a particular interest in issu...
Mark Vanhoenacker On Imagine A City
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Vanhoenacker is a commercial airline pilot for British Airways and the author of the internatio...
Jennifer Robinson And Dr Keina Yoshida On How Many More Women?
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Robinson is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London. She has acted in key human ri...
Lewis Dartnell On Being Human
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiology researcher and professor at the University of Westminster, and als...
Andrew Motion On Sleeping On Islands: A Life In Poetry
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, an...
Angela Saini On The Patriarchs
06 Jun 2023
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Angela Saini is an award-winning journalist and author. She presents radio, podcasts, and television...
Ariel Bruce On Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Described as the Agatha Christie of the adoption world, Ariel Bruce works on ITV’s Long Lost Famil...
5x15 And Keystone Present: Six Ideas To Change The World: Food
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Tr...
Dr Tom Moorhouse On Ghosts In The Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tom Moorhouse is a conservation research scientist who has worked for twenty years at the Wildlif...
Anne - Marie Imafidon On She’s In CTRL
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is a prodigy in every sense of the word. Aged 11, she was the youngest gi...
5x15 And Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Foods Of The Future
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
5x15 is delighted to announce a new series of events in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Ke...
Blake Morrison On Two Sisters
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and journalist. His non-fiction books include And When Did You La...
Julie McDowall On Attack Warning Red!
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julie McDowall is a freelance journalist and book critic specialising in the nuclear threat. Her wri...
Tania Branigan On Red Memory: Living, Remembering And Forgetting China's Culture Revolution
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tania Branigan is a Guardian foreign leader writer. Having spent seven years as the Guardian’s Chi...
Jeremy Denk On Every Good Boy Does Fine
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Denk is one of America's foremost pianists. Winner of a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship and the...
Katherine Rundell On Super-Infinite: The Transformations Of John Donne
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her bestselling books for children have ...
Sarah Raven On A Year Full Of Veg
13 Mar 2023
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Suzanne Wrack On A Woman's Game
09 Mar 2023
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Suzanne Wrack is the Guardian and Observer’s women’s football correspondent - the first person t...
Thomas Halliday On Otherlands
06 Mar 2023
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Thomas Halliday is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Universit...
Kirsty Sedgman On On Being Unreasonable
02 Mar 2023
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Kirsty Sedgman is an award-winning cultural studies scholar based at the University of Bristol. She ...
Patrick Radden Keefe And Rosie Boycott On The Snakehead
27 Feb 2023
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Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the intern...
Dr. Dean Burnett On Emotional Ignorance
23 Feb 2023
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Dr Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist, blogger, sometime comedian and author. His previous books, THE ...
Will Self | 5x15 & WritersMosaic
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Self is the author of many novels and books of nonfiction, including How the Dead Live, which w...
Simon Liebesny | 5x15 & WritersMosaic
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Liebesny is a freelance editor and publishing consultant. From shortly after September 11th un...
5x15 and The Moth: How To Tell A Story
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
5x15 and renowned nonprofit The Moth present a night of stories, inspired by the New York Times Best...
Pico Iyer And Katherine May On The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise In A Divided World
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In January, the month of resolutions, join 5x15 to hear the acclaimed author Pico Iyer on how we mig...
Philip Lymbery On Sixty Harvests Left
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Philip Lymbery is Chief Executive of leading international farm animal welfare organisation Compassi...
Luke Harding And Gideon Rachman On The Ukraine War
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
5x15 is thrilled to welcome best-selling writer and journalist Luke Harding to talk about his new bo...
Raynor Winn On Landlines
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raynor Winn’s new memoir Landlines is a story that begins in fear but ends in hope. As the health ...
Colm Tóibín On A Guest At The Feast
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colm Tóibín's new book, A Guest at the Feast, is a celebration of writing and brings together essa...
Gail Whiteman On Arctic Change
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gail Whiteman is an expert on global risk arising from the systemic changes occurring in the natural...
Abi Morgan And David Nicholls On This Is Not A Pity Memoir
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join 5x15 online in November to hear acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan in conversatio...
Sam Knight on The Premonitions Bureau
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Knight is a staff writer for the New Yorker, has won two Foreign Press Association awards and wa...
Lucy Siegle On The Ultimate Friend Of The Earth
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Siegle is a journalist, broadcaster and eco expert. She is the Observer and Guardian’s Ethica...