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Upcoming Events
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In Conversation
Sarah Churchwell
Justin Webb
Sarah Churchwell and Justin Webb
Join acclaimed historian Sarah Churchwell in conversation with Justin Webb to delve into American myth-making and denialism past and present
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
In Conversation
Chris Blackhurst
Oliver Bullough
Chris Blackhurst and Oliver Bullough: Too Big to Jail
Join 5x15 with leading journalists Chris Blackhurst & Oliver Bullough for a special event on the greatest banking scandal of the century
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Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels
5x15 presents: award winning author Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels
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Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Andrea Wulf
Magnificent Rebels
Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels
5x15 presents: award winning author Andrea Wulf on Magnificent Rebels
Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Carlo Rovelli
Helgoland
Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks
Carlo Rovelli and Oliver Burkeman
Join 5x15 online with two extraordinary thinkers - leading theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli and best-selling author Oliver Burkeman
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Online, Via Zoom
Featuring Talks By:
Sam Knight
The Premonitions Bureau
Jack Parlett
Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise
Philip Lymbery
Sixty Harvests Left
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - September 2022
Start the new season with 5x15 in September and journey from the ground beneath your feet, to island utopias and the outer edges of reason
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About
5x15 produces events of ideas, insight and inspiration for the world’s leading organisations and most discerning audiences. We bring internationally acclaimed speakers to the stage to share stories that are informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining.
Wade Davis @ 5x15 - Cultures at Risk
Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.
About
5x15 produces events of ideas, insight and inspiration for the world’s leading organisations and most discerning audiences. We bring internationally acclaimed speakers to the stage to share stories that are informative, provoking, and above all, entertaining.
