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Lisa Hannigan is an Irish singer, songwriter, and musician.

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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Theodore Zeldin on human connection.

Dr Theodore Zeldin is the son of refugees from the Russian Revolution, a graduate and former lecturer of Christ Church Oxford, and one of the scholars who developed Oxford University’s centres for international studies at St Antony’s College, of which he was Dean and Senior Tutor for 13 years.

As a historian and philosopher, he has revealed how human emotions have changed through the centuries, and proposed new ambitions for the next generation: his books, which have been translated into 27 languages, include a History of French Passions (in five volumes, Ambition and Love, Taste and Corruption, Intellect and Pride, Politics and Anger, Anxiety and Hypocrisy), Happiness, An Intimate History of Humanity, Conversation: How Talk can Change our Lives, and The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future.

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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Johann Hari on the killing of Billie Holiday. Johann Hari is a Swiss-British writer and journalist.

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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Germaine Greer is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement and author of The Female Eunuch.

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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The true story of an Indian Princess in the British court, weaving through the most important episodes in British and Indian history.

Broadcaster, journalist and biographer Anita Anand was born in 1972 and educated at King's College, London.

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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Alex Bellos talks about the world's favourite numbers...

Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, describes his quest to bring mathematics to the people by any means possible. In a wide-ranging talk which skips from Kilburn to India, via Arizona, Bellos reveals the mathematical principles that underpin the most unexpected aspects of modern-day life. He demonstrates how sports punditry is “basically a delusion” by recounting his meticulous daily experiments with bread-weighing, reveals the relationship between the work of Pythagoras and Puff Daddy’s identity crisis, and illustrates how a numerically-defined ‘golden ratio’ forms the basis for contemporary conceptions of beauty.

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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Sam Lee speaks about collecting songs - Sam Lee is Britain's most inventive folk singer and an expert in traditional music.

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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Mick Hucknall tells the story of his musical heritage.

Mick Hucknall is a singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the hugely successful British band Simply Red. The band have all-time worldwide sales of over 50 million and 30 top 40 UK hits to their credit in addition to having played over a 1,000 concerts to more than 10 million people. Born in Denton in 1960, his interest in the music scene led to the launch of his career in the late 1970s, when he was part of the formation of the band, the Frantic Elevators. The Frantic Elevators released four singles, including a version of Holding Back the Years, which Mick later recorded with Simply Red. Hucknall is also one of the founders of the successful reggae label Blood and Fire and also manages the record label simplyred.com. On 19 May 2008 Hucknall released his first solo album Tribute to Bobby, a tribute to the blues musician Bobby Bland. In 2009 Simply Red split up and in October that year, Mick appeared at a charity performance as vocalist for a reformed version of Faces, replacing Rod Stewart.

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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Joe Boyd tells stories from the 60s and Robyn Hitchcock plays the appropriate songs. Joe Boyd, record producer (Nick Drake, REM, Pink Floyd, Toumani Diabate among many) and author of "White Bicycles: Music In the 1960s" joins with singer Robyn Hitchcock (subject of Jonathan Demme's film "Storefront Hitchcock") for a 15 minute slice of the acclaimed show they have performed across the US and the UK. Joe tells stories from the 1960s and Robyn (who bought so many of the records Joe produced in the 1960s that "he is my Frankenstein and I am his monster") sings the appropriate songs.

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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Ben Watt tells the beautiful story of Romany and Tom.

Born in 1962, Ben Watt is a musician, songwriter, DJ and author. His first book, Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, voted a Sunday Times Book of the Year by William Boyd and shortlisted for the Esquire Non-fiction Book of the Year. His latest book is Romany and Tom a vivid story of the post-war years, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. He is perhaps most well known for his twenty-year career in alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl (1982–2002). He is also an international club and radio DJ, and since 2003 has run his own independent record labels Buzzin’ Fly and Strange Feeling. Having recently returned to songwriting and live performance, his first solo album for thirty years is expected in 2014. He lives in north London with his wife Tracey Thorn and their three children.

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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