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The incomparable Barb Jungr sings her own interpretations and covers.

Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique vocal style, interpretation of song and radical approach to arrangements. Her acclaimed releases on Linn Records and Naim Label, and "revelatory" live performances have brought her to audiences all around the world. Barb celebrated 2011 by touring the UK extensively with a new Bob Dylan collection, performing the show Girl Talk with Mari Wilson and Gwyneth Herbert, and collaborating with Kuljit Bhamra and Simon Wallace on Durga Rising. The Man In The Long Black Coat – Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan was released in May 2011 by Linn Records to excellent reviews. In 2012, Barb worked on and completed her long awaited new release Stockport To Memphis with collaborators Simon Wallace and Jenny Carr. The album is biographical, drawing on Jungr’s north-western upbringing and celebrates elements of her musical and geographic journey. Barb has worked with many of the finest musicians and composers in the UK, has toured all over the world with the British Council in the 1990s, appeared in Australia, toured across Norway and Holland and performs regularly in New York and across the United States.

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Janis Sharp tells the extraordinary story of her battle to prevent her son Gary McKinnon being extradited to America. Recorded at a special event with Liberty.

Janis Sharp is a musician/composer and writer of children's books. Her son, Gary McKinnon, who suffers from Aspergers Syndrome, had a lifelong obsession with UFOs and while searching for evidence thereof, wandered into NASA and Pentagon computers. The lives of he and his mother Janis changed dramatically one morning in March 2002 when Gary was arrested for hacking into US government computers. Two years later, on 7 October 2004, the US government filed a request for Gary’s extradition. Fearing that Gary would take his own life rather than face being taken away to face seven counts of up to ten years each, Janis’s extraordinary battle began. Janis Sharp is also the author of the book Saving Gary McKinnon.

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Isabella Sankey speaks about nowhere to run nowhere to hide.

Isabella Sankey is Director of Policy at Liberty. Isabella oversees Liberty's parliamentary campaigning and policy development and is one of its leading voices on various human rights issues including counter-terrorism, free speech and the rights of vulnerable minorities. Isabella is a non-practising barrister, and worked for the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat before joining Liberty in 2007.

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Emily Thornberry MP speaks about the Human Rights Act and the case for civil liberties at a special 5x15 event with Liberty.

Emily was elected Member of Parliament for Islington South & Finsbury in the 2005 General Election, and was re-elected in 2010 with an increased majority of 3,569. After the 2010 election, Emily became a Shadow Minister in the Department of Energy and Climate Change and took a leading role in Ed Miliband’s successful leadership campaign. In October 2010 she became a Shadow Health minister, shadowing Social Care Minister Paul Burstow, and holding the government to account over their changes to the NHS and social care. She was promoted in Ed Miliband's first reshuffle in October 2011 and until November 2014 attended the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Attorney General.

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Dominic Grieve makes the case for the Human Rights Act and civil liberties recorded at a special event celebrating Liberty.

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP was appointed Conservative spokesman for Scotland in June 1999 and in September 2001 he was appointed Conservative spokesman for criminal justice and community cohesion as part of the Shadow Home Affairs team. From 2003 to 2009 Dominic Grieve was Shadow Attorney General. The Leader of the Opposition appointed Dominic Grieve to Shadow Home Secretary in June 2008, and in January 2009 Dominic Grieve became the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, continuing with his front bench role in criminal justice matters, constitutional affairs and ethnic diversity. Under the coalition Government Dominic Grieve was the Attorney General for England and Wales and the Advocate General for Northern Ireland, until July 2014.

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Former children's laureate, the hugely loved Michael Rosen on being your child's best teacher.

Michael Rosen was born in 1946 in North London. There are several letters after his name: MA Oxon (he read English at Oxford); Ph.D (in reading and writing); and various honorary titles including D Lit (Doctor of Letters fro m the University of the West of England). He is a former Children’s Laureate and the bestselling author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which won the Smarties Best Bo ok of the Year Award, and many other books. He presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4. This is the book he has always wanted to write.

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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Former children's laureate, the hugely loved Michael Rosen on being your child's best teacher.

Michael Rosen was born in 1946 in North London. There are several letters after his name: MA Oxon (he read English at Oxford); Ph.D (in reading and writing); and various honorary titles including D Lit (Doctor of Letters fro m the University of the West of England). He is a former Children’s Laureate and the bestselling author of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which won the Smarties Best Bo ok of the Year Award, and many other books. He presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4. This is the book he has always wanted to write.

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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Elif Shafak on the urge to create.

Elif Shafak is Turkey's most-read female writer and an award-winning novelist. Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringing out the voices of women, minorities, subcultures, immigrants and global souls. Shafak is also a political commentator; she has written for several international daily & weekly publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Die Zeit, La Repubblica and The Independent.

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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Elif Shafak on the urge to create.

Elif Shafak is Turkey's most-read female writer and an award-winning novelist. Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringing out the voices of women, minorities, subcultures, immigrants and global souls. Shafak is also a political commentator; she has written for several international daily & weekly publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, Die Zeit, La Repubblica and The Independent.

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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Alan Johnson MP on what he learnt from his days as a postman. He talks at 5x15 about the second instalment of his best-selling memoir.

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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