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Lisa Appignanesi on love.

Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She was Director of Talks and Seminars at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where she stayed for ten years. While at the ICA she edited the Documents series, which included the books Postmodernism and Ideas from France. After becoming Deputy Director of the ICA in 1986, she created the ICA-Television branch, which produced England’s Henry Moore in 1988 and Seductions for Channel 4. Appignanesi left the ICA in 1990 to write full-time. Memory and Desire and Freud’s Women published in 1991 and 1992, respectively were followed by nine other fiction and two non-fiction books, including the highly acclaimed Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors. It won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, amongst other prizes. Her most recent book is All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion.

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Oliver James talks about parenting and love bombing.

Oliver James trained and practised as a clinical child psychologist and, since 1988, has worked as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include the best-selling Affluenza, They F*** You Up, Love Bombing, Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks, and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. His newest book is Not In Your Genes: The Real Reason Children Are Like Their Parents.

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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Oliver James talks about parenting and love bombing.

Oliver James trained and practised as a clinical child psychologist and, since 1988, has worked as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include the best-selling Affluenza, They F*** You Up, Love Bombing, Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks, and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. His newest book is Not In Your Genes: The Real Reason Children Are Like Their Parents.

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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Oliver James talks about parenting and love bombing.

Oliver James trained and practised as a clinical child psychologist and, since 1988, has worked as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His books include the best-selling Affluenza, They F*** You Up, Love Bombing, Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks, and Britain on the Couch, which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4. His newest book is Not In Your Genes: The Real Reason Children Are Like Their Parents.

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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Clare Clark tells a story of parenting.

Clare Clark is the award-winning author of five critically acclaimed novels:

The Great Stink, The Nature of Monsters, Savage Lands, Beautiful Lies and, her latest, We That Are Left.

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Mark Cocker talks about his love and passion for birds and his project birds and humans.

Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s foremost writers on nature and contributes regularly to The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, as well as BBC Radio. His is the author of several books including the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica (with Richard Mabey) and Crow Country nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008. He has travelled the world in search of wildlife and won a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study the cultural importance of birds in West Africa. For the last ten years he has been researching a ground-breaking study in natural history and cultural anthropology which was published this summer called Birds and People. It surveys the significance of birds across the world and is illustrated with images from British wildlife photographer David Tipling.

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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Mark Cocker talks about his love and passion for birds and his project birds and humans.

Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s foremost writers on nature and contributes regularly to The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, as well as BBC Radio. His is the author of several books including the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica (with Richard Mabey) and Crow Country nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008. He has travelled the world in search of wildlife and won a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study the cultural importance of birds in West Africa. For the last ten years he has been researching a ground-breaking study in natural history and cultural anthropology which was published this summer called Birds and People. It surveys the significance of birds across the world and is illustrated with images from British wildlife photographer David Tipling.

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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Mark Cocker talks about his love and passion for birds and his project birds and humans.

Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s foremost writers on nature and contributes regularly to The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, as well as BBC Radio. His is the author of several books including the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica (with Richard Mabey) and Crow Country nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008. He has travelled the world in search of wildlife and won a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to study the cultural importance of birds in West Africa. For the last ten years he has been researching a ground-breaking study in natural history and cultural anthropology which was published this summer called Birds and People. It surveys the significance of birds across the world and is illustrated with images from British wildlife photographer David Tipling.

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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Juliet Eilperin Washington Post reporter talks about demon fish.

Juliet Eilperin joined The Washington Post as the House of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, lobbying, legislation, and four national congressional campaigns. Since April of 2004 she has covered the environment for the national desk, reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. Her recent book Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks was a thrilling guided tour through the world of sharks and their relationship with human communities around the globe.

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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Tim Birkhead speaks at the Wellcome Collection about bird sense.

Tim Birkhead is a professor of behaviour and evolution at the University of Sheffield. His research on promiscuity and sperm competition in birds helped to re-shape current understanding of bird mating systems. His undergraduate teaching includes courses in animal behaviour and the history and philosophy of science. Tim is committed to the public understanding of science and he has written for New Scientist, BBC Wildlife, Natural History magazine, the Independent and the Times Higher Education. His popular science books have gained widespread recognition. His books include The Wisdom of Birds an illustrated account of how we know what we know about birds and Bird Sense- what it’s like to be bird.

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