5x15

Oct 31 2021 293 ep. 25 mins 2k
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"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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Marcus du Sautoy and Roger Highfield

Oct 31 2021 59 mins  
Join Marcus du Sautoy and Roger Highfield for this exciting conversation and shortcut your route to being more creative, strategic, and more efficient.How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and wi

Mike Leigh and Francine Stock

Oct 24 2021 61 mins  
The writer-director Mike Leigh is one of world cinema’s pre-eminent figures, a multi-award winning writer-director and one of Britain’s most internationally recognised and critically acclaimed filmmakers. He joins 5x15 to talk about his life and work in an unmissable online conversation with the long-time presenter of The Film Programme, Francine Stock.The subject of a major re

The Last Tree on Easter Island- Penguin Green Ideas with Jared Diamond

Oct 17 2021 45 mins  
Life on earth has become irrevocably altered by humans. What can we do to acknowledge our impact on the earth and pave the way for a fairer, saner, greener world?Join 5x15 for this urgent and unmissable Penguin Classics series of Green Ideas special event with Jared Diamond who discusses his short book The Last Tree on Easter Island.The Last Tree on Easter Island is Jared

Anil Seth and Adam Rutherford

Oct 10 2021 65 mins  
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Zakiya Dalila Harris

Sep 23 2021 11 mins  
Drawing on her first-hand experience of the high-pressure, starkly white world of book publishing, novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris discusses her incredible debut novel, The Other Black Girl. At once a gripping thriller and a witty and shrewd piece of social commentary, The Other Black Girl was an instant New York Times bestseller and is on

Tahmima Anam - The Startup Wife

Sep 14 2021 14 mins  
Tahmima Anam is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and Harvard-educated anthropologist. She is also an executive director of ROLI, a music technology startup with offices in New York and London. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. H

Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke

Sep 14 2021 62 mins  
Step into the extraordinary and mysterious world of Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Susanna Clarke as she discusses her spectacular novel, Piranesi, with the one and only Neil Gaiman live exclusively for 5x15. An unmissable conversation between two of our best loved, most powerfully imaginative writers.Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.comTwitter: ww

Jess Phillips: Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics

Aug 19 2021 60 mins  
In her frank and funny talk for 5x15, Jess Phillips MP discusses her new book Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics with Rosie Boycott and lifts the lid on what a career in politics is really like and why it matters – to all of us. From agonizing decisions on foreign air strikes to making headlines about orgasms, from sitting in on history-making moments at the UN to

Nick Crane - Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition

Aug 16 2021 16 mins  
In this 5x15 short talk, Nick Crane discusses his new book Latitude: The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition and shares a story of courage, collaboration, initiative and adversity.Nick Crane is an award-winning writer, journalist, geographer and explorer, as well as the presenter of the prime-time BAFTA-winning BBC TV series Coast, Great British Journeys, Map Man

Hollie McNish - Slug: and other things I've been told to hate

Aug 09 2021 13 mins  
In our latest 5x15 podcast, award winning poet Hollie McNish will take you on a whistle stop tour of her funny, frank and timely new poetry and prose collection Slug: And Other Things I’ve Been Told to HateFrom Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and presen