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Mariana Mazzucato & Rana Foroohar - Mission Economy
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of t...
Morgan Housel on The Psychology of Money
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He is a two-time winner of...
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in design...
Noreena Hertz - The Lonely Century – Coming Together in a World That’s Pulling Apart
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Named by The Observer as “one of the world’s leading thinkers” and by Vogue as “one of the world’s most inspiring women,” economist Noreen...
The world in 2021 - Simon Schama
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What lessons does the past hold for our future? Join Britain’s pre-eminent public historian to explore his thoughts on the pandemic, the Biden presi...
Michael Sandel and Polly Toynbee - The Tyranny of Merit
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. Known to BBC listeners as ‘The Public Philosopher’, Sandel's books include Just...
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad and Angela Saini
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Layla F. Saad is a globally respected writer, speaker and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social...
Carlo Rovelli & Neil Gaiman discuss life, the universe and everything
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does literature nourish science? When does physics become poetry? A conversation of cosmic proportions, as two masterful storytellers- Neil Gaiman...
Maria Konnikova - The Biggest Bluff - How I Learned to Pay Attention and Master the Odds
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Konnikova is the author of Mastermind and The Confidence Game. She is a regular contributor for the New Yorker, and has written for the Atlantic...
Anne Applebaum - Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Applebaum is the author of Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, which won ...
Wade Davis - How Covid-19 Signals the End of the American Era
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The article: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/ Wade Davis is a writer, phot...
Rathbones: The Earth Convention - Lucy Siegle, Dieter Helm, Steve Evans, Miatta Fanbulleh
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Earth Convention- Consumers – Fast Fashion, Manufacturing and Plastics The third event in The Earth Convention series from 5x15 and Rathbones is...
Jonathan Safran Foer - We are The Weather
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited...
Sarah Churchwell- Behold, America! A history of America First and the American Dream
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University o...
The Wake Up Call - John Micklethwait
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Micklethwait CBE, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News and former editor-in-chief of The Economist from 2006-2015, is the author of a new essay call...
Jung Chang - Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a ‘barefoot’ doctor, ...
Monty Don - My Garden World & American Gardens
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monty Don OBE is a well-known gardening writer and broadcaster. He lives with his family, garden and dogs in Herefordshire. His books include the Sund...
Jonathon Porritt, Farhana Yamin - Rathbones : The Earth Convention
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our second event in the Earth Convention series looks at creating a green transition in energy and finance that can help us move towards a sustainable...
Lee Child, author of Jack Reacher, on life and literature
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Child was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in the USA. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold s...
Rutger Bregman - Humankind: A Hopeful History
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed by the Guardian as the ‘Sapiens of 2020’, Humankind offers a revolutionary new view of human nature: one that argues people are essentia...
Charlie Gilmour - Featherhood - A story about birds and fathers
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a story about birds and fathers. About the things that run in the blood; sanity and madness; captivity and freedom. Charlie Gilmour’s biolog...
The Stress Solution - Dr Rangan Chatterjee
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rangan Chatterjee is one of the most influential doctors in the UK and is changing the way that we look at illness. He is known for taking a 360 de...
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac - Rathbones: The Earth Convention
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 and Climate Change – Time for a reset? This opening session of the Earth Convention series explores the impact of the global pandemic on c...
Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branch...
Lemn Sissay - My Name Is Why
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Google the name “Lemn Sissay” and all the returning hits will be about him because there is only one Lemn Sissay in the world. Lemn Sissay is a BA...
Tim Harford - How to Make the World Add Up
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Harford is a behavioural economist, BBC radio and TV presenter and award-winning Financial Times columnist. He offers a distinctive blend of story...
The Secret Barrister - Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specialising in criminal law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. The Secret Barrist...
Wade Davis - Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. E...
Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal net...
Future of Food - Tim Spector, Henry Dimbleby, Dee Woods, Tasha Mhakayakora, Rosie Boycott
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special 5x15 Future of Food event, we cut through the confusion with Henry Dimbleby, Tim Spector, Dee Woods, Tasha Mhakayakora and Rosie ...
Bradley Garrett & Robert Macfarlane - Bunker: Building for the End Times
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join urban explorer Bradley Garrett and acclaimed author and academic Robert Macfarlane for a thrilling and timely discussion. Bradley Garrett is a g...
How to Argue with a Racist - Adam Rutherford
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he...
Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa 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...
Who Cares Wins - Lily Cole in conversation with Rosie Boycott
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Cole is a philanthropist, environmental activist, model and actress. She holds an MA in History of Art from the University of Cambridge and was a...
Democracy for Sale - Peter Geoghegan in conversation with Fintan O'Toole
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Geoghegan is an Irish writer, broadcaster and investigations editor at openDemocracy. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Gua...
David Spiegelhalter - Communicating statistics, risks and uncertainty in the age of COVID19
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Spiegelhalter is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the University of Cambridge, which aims to improve the way th...
Empowering Women, Socially, Culturally and Economically - Sharmadean Reid
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sharmadean Reid is an entrepreneur, founding Beautystack and WAH Nails. Her mission is to use technology to empower women, economically, socially and ...
Tim Harford - The next 50 things that made the modern economy
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Harford is a behavioural economist, BBC radio and TV presenter and award-winning Financial Times columnist. He offers a distinctive blend of story...
Fiona Shaw - On the creative process
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Shaw is an Irish actress and director, and one of the most recognised performers of her generation. A star of both stage and screen, she has num...
Luke Harding - Shadow State- Murder, mayhem & Russia's remaking of the West
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Harding is a Guardian foreign correspondent who has reported from Delhi, Berlin and Moscow and covered wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. His ...
Colin Grant - Homecoming- Voices of the Windrush generation
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Grant is the author of Homecoming (2019); Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (2008), I and I: The Natural Mystics Marley, Tosh...
Brave Not Perfect - Reshma Saujani
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reshma Saujani is the daughter of immigrant parents and a Yale Law school graduate. She became the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress, in...
Kate Mosse - The Women's Prize and importance of creativity
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Mosse is the author of nine novels & short story collections, including the No 1 multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre an...
Black and British - a forgotten history - David Olusoga
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Olusoga lives in Bristol and is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and film-maker. Born in Lagos, Nigeria he studied history and journali...
Benjamin Moser - Sontag: Her Life and Work
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ ...
Natalie Haynes - A Thousand Ships
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madelin...
Neil Gaiman on the power of the imagination
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Gaiman in conversation with Rosie Boycott. Neil Gaiman is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Neverwhere, American Gods...
Roger Robinson - A Portable Paradise
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger 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 De...
Ben Okri on collaboration
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Okri is a poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, aphorist, and playwright. He has also written film scripts. His works have wo...
Parwana Fayyaz reads Forty Names
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Parwana Fayyaz was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. on the medieval Persian poet Jami at Trinity College, Cambridg...
The Genius of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer 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...
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature - Patrick Barkham
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Barkham is the natural history writer for the Guardian. He is the author of the books The Butterfly Isles, Badgerlands, Coastlines, Islander a...
Coronavirus, the global food system and where we go from here - Michael Pollan and Rosie Boycott
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in ...
It's time for a Great Reset - George Monbiot
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human ...
Around the World in 80 Trees - Jonathan Drori
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 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...
On the Road in America - James Naughtie
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 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 ...
House of Glass - The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family - Hadley Freeman
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 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 Gu...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles through time
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 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 mixt...
Notes from an Apocalypse- Mark O'Connell
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 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 an...
Uncharted, how to map the future together - Margaret Heffernan
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at the first online 5x15 event on April 20th 2020. Margaret Heffernan is one of the UK’s most highly regarded thought leaders. An entrepre...
Transcendence - How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - Gaia Vince
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gaia Vince on Transcendence - How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time. Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the ...
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss - Rachel Clarke
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before going to medical school, Dr Rachel Clarke was a television journalist and documentary maker. She now specialises in palliative medicine, caring...
People Like Us: Social Mobility, Inequality And Making It In Modern Britain - Hashi Mohamed
14 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hashi 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, ha...
Five Rules for Rebellion - How to be an activist - Sophie Walker
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Walker is a feminist activist, founding leader of the Women’s Equality Party, and recently-appointed chief executive of Young Women’s Trust...
I'm a Joke and So Are You - Robin Ince
07 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Ince is many things. A comedian, an author, a broadcaster and a populariser of scientific ideas. The Guardian once declared him a ‘becardigane...
How to be Right... in a world gone wrong - James O'Brien
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James 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’...
Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia - Tracey Thorn in conversation with Georgina Godwin
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tracey 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 youn...
The rules of contagion - why things spread and why they stop - Adam Kucharski
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - And Why They Stop, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski reveals how mathematical approaches trans...
Billy Bragg: Can music change the world?
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Has 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...
Jeremy Irons: How I approach poetry
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Irons talks about his method of approaching poetry. Jeremy Irons won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bülow ...
Poetry is life - Jackie Kay
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Priz...
The Wichita Lineman: the World’s Greatest Unfinished Song - Dylan Jones
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times best-selling author Dylan Jones has written twenty books on subjects as diverse as music and politics and fashion and photography. He h...
The book of play - Michael Rosen
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“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 t...
David Nott - The War Doctor - Surgery on the Front Line
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Nott is a Welsh consultant surgeon, specializing in general and vascular surgery. He works mainly in London hospitals, but for more than twenty-...
A Roughride to the Future - James Lovelock and John Gray
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From 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 ...
Michael Morpurgo on Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael 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...
Three women- Lisa Taddeo on love, sex and desire in conversation with Hadley Freeman
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa 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...
John Humphrys on A Day Like Today in conversation with Rosie Boycott
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John 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...
One more croissant for the road - Felicity Cloake
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Felicity 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 Gui...
Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. - Jess Phillips
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jess 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 Westmi...
Why women should tell the stories of humanity - Jude Kelly
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jude Kelly is a creative director and Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre from 2006-2018. Jude has created an incredible portfolio of Festivals ...
Jack Harries tells his story of being part of Extinction Rebellion
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Harries grew up in a family of filmmakers and storytellers. At the age eighteen he built up a successful YouTube channel and production company g...
The State of the Union - Nick Hornby
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Hornby is the author of the internationally bestselling novels many of which have been made into successful, and much-loved, films, including Fev...
Decline and Fail - Read in Case of Political Apocalypse - John Crace
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John 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 le...
The art of natural navigation - Tristan Gooley
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tristan 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, ...
That Will Never Work - The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea - Marc Randolph
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the ex...
The Dutch House: Ann Patchett In Conversation with Mariella Frostrup
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 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 th...
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World - Nick Crane at 5x15 at Wilderness
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nick is an author and broadcaster whose books and TV films explore geographical themes. In recent years, he has become best known for presenting the B...
How to Own the Room - Viv Groskop
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Viv 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 BB...
Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker and Amol Rajan
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Pinker in conversation with Amol Rajan on Enlightenment Now. Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cogn...
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells - Pico Iyer
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pico 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 non...
David Baddiel and Elif Shafak on Humour And Despair
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, 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 w...
Afropean: Notes on Black Europe - Johny Pitts
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Johny Pitts is the founder of Afropean.com, an online user-generated journal which is part of the Guardian’s ‘Africa Network’. In October 2018, ...
To Kill the Truth - Jonathan Freedland
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, who also writes bestselling novels under the pseudonym, Sam Bourne. Jonathan writes...
How To Change Your Mind- the new science of psychedelics- Michael Pollan And John Crace
09 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join 5x15 on a mind-altering adventure with the pioneering, genre-busting writer Michael Pollan in conversation with John Crace. Delving into states o...
All That Remains - Sue Black
01 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Dame Sue Black is a leading forensic anthropologist and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University. She confronts death ever...
The Perseverance - Raymond Antrobus performs
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Raymond 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 Persev...
Lost Connections: The real causes of depression - Johann Hari
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author. His first book, Chasing the Scream, was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a ...
Rise - Gina Miller
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Miller was the lead claimant in the 2016 constitutional legal case against the UK Government over triggering Article 50. Born and raised in Guyan...
Judith Kerr in conversation with Rosie Boycott @ 5x15
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...