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February 23, 2015 The Millennium forest project - Dan Pearson
Dan Pearson talks about his project the Millennium Forest Garden in Hokkaido.
Dan Pearson is an English garden designer, landscape designer, journalist, and television presenter. He is an expert in naturalistic perennial planting.
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15 min
February 23, 2015 The Millennium forest project - Dan Pearson
Dan Pearson talks about his project the Millennium Forest Garden in Hokkaido.
Dan Pearson is an English garden designer, landscape designer, journalist, and television presenter. He is an expert in naturalistic perennial planting.
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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15 min
February 23, 2015 Her Passion for Plants - Anna Pavord
Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of eight books, including the bestselling The Tulip. She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the US and the UK and regularly fronts programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust and sits on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage. She lives in Dorset, England, where she spent thirty years restoring the garden of an old rectory. She has recently moved to a new house and started another garden. She is married and has three daughters. The Curious Gardener, published by Bloomsbury in November 2010, brings together in 12 chapters - one from each month of the year - 72 pieces on all aspects of gardening.
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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15 min
February 23, 2015 Design - Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley talks design at 5x15.
Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater and curator.
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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14 min
January 27, 2015 Discover the secret history of London coffeehouses - Matthew Green
Dr Matthew Green takes us back to discover the history of London Coffeehouses.
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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16 min
January 27, 2015 David Gentleman's London
David Gentleman on London sketches.
David William Gentleman (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash.
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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16 min
January 27, 2015 The story of London - Craig Taylor - Soho Stories recorded with the National Trust
Craig Taylor tells Soho Stories at a special event recorded in partnership with 5x15 and the National Trust.
In, Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - as Told by Those Who Love it, Hate it, Live it, Left it and Long for it, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today's London that is as rich and lively as the city itself.
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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14 min
January 27, 2015 How food shapes our lives and cities - Carolyn Steel
Carolyn Steel on food and how food shapes our lives.
Carolyn Steel is a London-based architect, lecturer and writer. She is author of Hungry City.
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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19 min
January 27, 2015 This Boy - Growing up in Notting Hill - Alan Johnson podcast 1
The Labour MP Alan Johnson on his early life in London. He talks at 5x15 about the first instalment of his best-selling memoirs.
Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alan Johnson has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997.
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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17 min
January 23, 2015 Inside an experimental theatre troupe - Mike Figgis
Mike Figgis on his time in an experimental theatre troupe.
Mike Figgis is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer.
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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16 min