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Farah 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.

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Philippe 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. Philippe is the author of Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008) and several academic books on international law, and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and The Guardian. East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) won the 2016 Baillie Gifford (formerly Samuel Johnson) Prize, the 2017 British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the 2018 Prix Montaigne. The book is accompanied by a prizewinning BBC Storyville film, My Nazi Legacy: What Our Fathers Did. He is currently writing the sequel, which is the subject of his hit BBC podcast, The Ratline. Philippe is President of English PEN, and a vice president of the Hay Literary Festival.

Recorded live at the EartH in London's Hackney on 19th March 2019.

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Martin 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 of humanity - On the Future: Prospects for Humanity (Princeton).

Recorded live at the EartH in London's Hackney on 19th March 2019.

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obert 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 Shapeshifting City. In the book Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. ‘London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’

Recorded live at the EartH in London's Hackney on 19th March 2019.

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Philippa 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, Celebs Go Dating, where she used her expertise to give the celebrities such much needed love advice. She has also written two other books: Couch Fiction, a Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy and How to Stay Sane. She lives in London with her husband, the artist and campaigner Grayson Perry, and her cat Kevin. They have one grown up daughter, Flo.

Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London's Notting Hill on 11th March 2019.

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James Harding is the Co-founder and Editor of Tortoise Media, and prior to this was Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC, the world’s largest news organisation. He was the Editor of The Times from 2007-2012, winning the Newspaper of the Year in two of the five years he edited the paper. He was previously The Times Business Editor, having joined from The Financial Times, where he worked as Washington Bureau Chief, Media Editor and China correspondent opening the paper's bureau in Shanghai in 1996. He is the author of Alpha Dogs- How political spin became a global business and he presented On Background on the BBC World Service with Zanny Minton-Beddoes, editor of The Economist.

Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London's Notting Hill on 25th February 2019.

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Baroness Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights. She has used many public platforms – including the House of Lords to argue with passion, wit and humanity for social justice. She has also written and broadcast on a wide range of issues, from medical negligence to terrorism to the rights of women and children. Her latest book is Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women.

Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London's Notting Hill on 25th February 2019.

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James O’Brien is a writer and LBC radio presenter. He has written for the Times Literary Supplement and is a regular columnist for the Daily Mirror. 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 a million weekly listeners and his Unfiltered podcast has been downloaded three million times. How To Be Right is his first book.

Recorded live at the Tabernacle in London's Notting Hill on 25th February 2019.

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Podcast from the sold out event hosted by 5x15 with Shoshana Zuboff, Misha Glenny and Profile books on 5th February 2019.

Shoshana Zuboff joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1981, as one of the institutions first tenured women, and in 2014 and 2015 she was a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. She is one of the world’s most provocative and prescient thinkers – and has devoted her career to studying the rise of the digital. Her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a sensation. As Naomi Klein has said: “everyone needs to read this book as act of digital self-defence." Interviewing her is Misha Glenny, the author of McMafia about global criminal networks and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia. He is an expert on cyber security and a distinguished investigative journalist and historian.

Recorded live at the Emmanuel Centre on 5th February 2019.

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The Poetry Pharmacy is William Sieghart's best-selling book bringing together tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul. He has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television. His pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work, whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego.

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 Olympics.

Recorded at The Tabernacle on 21st January 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.

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