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Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. She worked in a variety of healthcare settings, but spent most of her career in paediatric intensive care in large NHS hospitals before becoming a resuscitation nurse. Christie now teaches and writes and advocates for nursing. Her first novel, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, won the Costa First Novel Award and her second novel, Where Women Are Kings, was also published to international critical acclaim. Her works have been translated into eighteen languages. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. Recorded on 19th November 2018 at The Tabernacle at the 5x15 health special. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.face

Victoria Derbyshire is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. In 2015 she went on to host a daily news and current affairs show that airs on BBC 2 and BBC News. The same year, Victoria was diagnosed with breast cancer. Faced with this diagnosis, she made the decision to share her experiences in a series of video diaries in an effort to help demystify cancer treatment. To date, these videos have amassed over 13 million views. Victoria has kept a diary since she was nine years old and in this podcast she shares her day to day experiences of life following her diagnosis and coming to terms with a future that wasn't planned. Recorded on 19th November 2018 at The Tabernacle at the 5x15 health special. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.insta

Jude Kelly talks about the arts and transformation - recorded at the strawditorium at Bold Tendencies in Peckham, a space transformed from a multi-storey car park into one of the largest the largest sculpture park in Europe. Jude Kelly is a creative director and was Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre from 2006-2018, where she created Festivals including: Being A Man, Unlimited, The Rest is Noise, Changing Britain, the Festival of Death, (B)old, as well as WOW- Women of the World.

Siri Hustvedt is a highly unusual writer—an internationally acclaimed and bestselling novelist and an intellectual with voracious interests. Siri is as well-respected in literary circles for her bestselling novels (including The Sorrows of an American and What I Loved), as she is in the artistic community for her lectures at museums around the world and her book of essays on visual art (Mysteries of the Rectangle), and by neuroscientists for her interdisciplinary memoir The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves and her delivery of the thirty-ninth annual Freud lecture in Vienna in 2011. Her most recent book is a collection of essays: Living, Thinking, Looking. Stories from the 5x15 in New York, recorded at the Player's Club in Gramercy Park. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.faceb

Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, Mark Haddon comes to the 5x15 Halloween special to tell a story of the other side. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award and has also been adapted for the stage. His poetry collection,The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador in 2005, and The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. His debut collection of short stories, published in 2016 to much acclaim, is called The Pier Falls. He lives in Oxford. Stories from the 5x15 Halloween special recorded at Conway Hall on 30th October 2018. 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. Learn more ab

Journalist- turned-junior doctor Dr Rachel Clarke's talk about her first book, Your Life in My Hands, which documents the realities of life as a junior doctor, in this incredibly moving speech. Recorded at 5x15 at The Tabernacle in London, November 2017. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Jo Brand and Rosie Boycott at 5x15 on October 22nd 2018 discussing Jo's new book Born Lippy: how to do female. The Last Tango in Paris, Dennis and the Dog Baskets, and Jo's advice for life is all up for discussion in this wide ranging and hilarious conversation with one of the UK best loved comedians and writers. Long established as one of the UK’s best loved comics, Jo Brand has numerous TV appearances, acting and writing credits to her name. She was the star and writer of Getting On, the BBC’s BAFTA award winning series set on a hospital’s geriatric ward, which was partly inspired by her earlier career in nursing. She also co-wrote and starred in two series of the sitcom Damned for Channel 4. Jo’s other television credits also includes Jo Brand’s Hot Potatoes and the award- winning Through the Cakehole (Channel 4). Not to mention appearances on QI, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You. Jo has also written several highly acclaimed bes

Miriam Toews tells a story of shared suffering between sisters from the Canadian Mennonite community, in a story that is darkly tragicomic, irresistible and poignant. Miriam Toews (pronounced tâves) was born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba, in Canada. She has published six novels - including A Boy of Good Breeding, A Complicated Kindness, The Flying Troutmans, Irma Voth and All My Puny Sorrows - and a memoir of her father, Swing Low. Toews is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Governor General's Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (twice), and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In 2007 she made her screen debut in the film Luz silenciosa. She was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www

Hannah Critchlow investigates the human brain and surprises the 5x15 audience with insights into consciousness- in plants, animals and humans. Dr Hannah Critchlow is a neuroscientist with a grounding in neuropsychiatry. She is a Science Outreach Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge and demystifies the human brain using Radio, TV and Festival platforms. Hannah's first book Consciousness: A LadyBird Expert, was published this summer. She has been part of the 2018 Wellcome Trust Science Book Judging Panel, and in 2017 she co-presented the BBC Tomorrow's World Live interactive science series. In 2014 Hannah was named as a Top 100 UK scientist by the Science Council for her work in science communication. In 2013 she was named as one of Cambridge Universities ‘inspirational and successful women in science’. During her PhD she was awarded a Cambridge University Fellowship and as an undergraduate received three University Prizes as Best Biologist. Next year she will launch her book on Fate with the

Zing Tsjeng talks about the forgotten women in history... and rewriting the story once and for all. Zing Tsjeng is a journalist from London, where she currently works as the UK editor of Broadly, VICE’s channel for millennial women. She has also written about feminism, arts and culture, politics, race and LGBTQ identity for publications like the Guardian, Buzzfeed, Dazed, i-D magazine and the Debrief. Zing is also a presenter for VICE, and her most recent documentary (Britain First vs Antifascists vs Police) attracted 1.5 million views on Facebook. She is also a keen speaker and panelist, and has appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour and moderated live events at the BFI, SXSW, Web Summit and HowTheLightGetsIn festival. In 2017 she was nominated for the Pride Power List, which celebrates the achievements of influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Zing is the author of the feminist series, Forgotten Women, published by Octopus. Recorded at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in London in September 201

Jamie Bartlett talks about the importance of listening radicals. Jamie Bartlett is an author and tech blogger for The Spectator and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos in conjunction with The University of Sussex. In 2013 he covered the rise of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement in Italy for Demos, chronicling the new political force's emergence and use of social media. In 2014 he released a book entitled The Dark Net, discussing the darknet and dark web in broad terms, describing a range of underground and emergent subcultures, including social media racists, cam girls, self harm communities, darknet drug markets, cryptoanarchists and transhumanists. He regularly writes about online extremism and free speech, as well as social media trends in Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook. In 2017 he published the book Radicals about fringe political movements including transhumanism, psychedelic societies and anarcho-capitalism. He also presented the two part BBC2 series The Secrets of Silic

Brian Eno is in conversation with Rosie Boycott. Brian Eno is a musician, composer, singer and record producer. He is widely credited as being a forunner in the 'Ambient Music' movement in the 1970s, and has been part of numerous innovative projects during his career, including th Microsoft Sound, the six-second start-up music for the Windows 95 operating system. A sometime columnist for 'The Observer', Brian is politically active, particularly with regard to nuclear weapins. Along with Stewart Brand (the editor od 'The Whole Earth Catalog') Brian founded the The Long Now Foundation - a society dedicated to the promotion of long-term thinking. http://www.brian-eno.net/ Recorded at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in London in September 2018. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: http://5x15stories.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/5x15stories Fac

How posthuman evolution will be the outcome of technological changes with Martin Rees. Martin Rees is a cosmologist and space scientist. He is currently on the Board of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and has served on many bodies connected with education, space research, arms control and international collaboration in science. He lectures, writes and broadcasts widely for general audiences. Ever since his book 'Our Final Century?' was published , he has been concerned with the threats stemming from humanity's ever-heavier 'footprint' on the global environment, and with the runaway consequences of ever more powerful technologies. These concerns led him to join with colleagues in setting up a Centre for the Study of Existential Risks (CSER) based in Cambridge. Posthuman evolution, here on Earth and far beyond, will be the outcome of technological changes (genetics, cyborg and AI) rather than Darwinian selection. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions a

5x15 food fight with 5 exceptional speakers on food. Jamie Oliver is a chef and restaurateur and campaigner for healthy food. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. He pays tribute to his mother, Anthea Bell, the acclaimed English translator of Asterix, Zweig and Andersen's fairytales. Recorded at The Tabernacle in London in March 2018. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: http://5x15stories.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Best loved Private Eye satirist Craig Brown comes to 5x15 to show us 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Booker Prize winning novelist and poet reflects in poetry on the tragedy of the fire at Grenfell Tower. 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. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories