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Join us in February for an evening that will start a conversation about love, delve behind the headlines, shed light on myths and misconceptions, illuminate the darkest episodes from history, and help make sense of the world today.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter has been a calm voice of authority throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Cutting through the headlines, his analysis of the data has exposed myths and misconceptions about the virus and allowed us to make sense of the numbers for ourselves. His new book, COVID BY NUMBERS, co-authored by Anthony Masters, offers a ‘situation room’ view of the crisis from a statistician’s perspective - a must-read as numbers again take centre stage in the national conversation.
Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme ‘Today.’ In THE GIFT OF A RADIO, he describes coming of age in the 1970s, his troubled home life and his experiences at a Quaker boarding school overseen by gun-wielding masters. With its tumultuous backdrop of strikes and IRA bombings, his candid and moving memoir probes familial and national dysfunction, at a time when attitudes to mental illness and masculinty were worlds away from our ideas today.
Adam Rutherford is a science writer, broadcaster and the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Argue With a Racist. In CONTROL he turns his attention to eugenics, exploring how an obscure academic idea took off and paved the way for the Holocaust in just fifty years. Yet despite its genocidal past, its legacies remain in our language and literature. And with new gene editing techniques, eugenics looms as large as ever, as scientists and those in power consider ways to make our unborn children smarter, fitter and stronger.
Natasha Lunn - In her fascinating and revealing compendium CONVERSATIONS ON LOVE Natasha reminds us that love is fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful; a thing always worth fighting for. Love is one of the great universals. Maybe you are hoping to begin a new relationship, or in a secret place in your heart, gathering the courage to leave one. Maybe you’re in a long-term partnership, wondering how to sustain love through life’s many storms. After years of interviewing people about their relationships, Natasha has learnt that these daily questions are often rooted in three bigger ones: how do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?
Edward Shawcross is one of our most exciting young historians. In THE LAST EMPEROR OF MEXICO, he tells the bizarre and little known story of how, in 1864, a hubristic Austrian Archduke became the puppet Emperor of Mexico - with tragic results and pivotal historical consequences for Europe and America. ‘A superbly entertaining and well-researched account that sets a new standard for histories of the doomed escapade’ - Financial Times.
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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Join us in February for an evening that will start a conversation about love, delve behind the headlines, shed light on myths and misconceptions, illuminate the darkest episodes from history, and help make sense of the world today.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter has been a calm voice of authority throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Cutting through the headlines, his analysis of the data has exposed myths and misconceptions about the virus and allowed us to make sense of the numbers for ourselves. His new book, COVID BY NUMBERS, co-authored by Anthony Masters, offers a ‘situation room’ view of the crisis from a statistician’s perspective - a must-read as numbers again take centre stage in the national conversation.
Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme ‘Today.’ In THE GIFT OF A RADIO, he describes coming of age in the 1970s, his troubled home life and his experiences at a Quaker boarding school overseen by gun-wielding masters. With its tumultuous backdrop of strikes and IRA bombings, his candid and moving memoir probes familial and national dysfunction, at a time when attitudes to mental illness and masculinty were worlds away from our ideas today.
Adam Rutherford is a science writer, broadcaster and the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Argue With a Racist. In CONTROL he turns his attention to eugenics, exploring how an obscure academic idea took off and paved the way for the Holocaust in just fifty years. Yet despite its genocidal past, its legacies remain in our language and literature. And with new gene editing techniques, eugenics looms as large as ever, as scientists and those in power consider ways to make our unborn children smarter, fitter and stronger.
Natasha Lunn - In her fascinating and revealing compendium CONVERSATIONS ON LOVE Natasha reminds us that love is fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful; a thing always worth fighting for. Love is one of the great universals. Maybe you are hoping to begin a new relationship, or in a secret place in your heart, gathering the courage to leave one. Maybe you’re in a long-term partnership, wondering how to sustain love through life’s many storms. After years of interviewing people about their relationships, Natasha has learnt that these daily questions are often rooted in three bigger ones: how do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?
Edward Shawcross is one of our most exciting young historians. In THE LAST EMPEROR OF MEXICO, he tells the bizarre and little known story of how, in 1864, a hubristic Austrian Archduke became the puppet Emperor of Mexico - with tragic results and pivotal historical consequences for Europe and America. ‘A superbly entertaining and well-researched account that sets a new standard for histories of the doomed escapade’ - Financial Times.
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: twitter.com/5x15stories
Facebook: facebook.com/5x15stories
Instagram: instagram.com/5x15stories
