At each 5×15 event, five outstanding individuals enlighten, entertain and inspire as they tell the story behind their most innovative ideas, grandest achievements and deepest obsessions – with the constraint that they must do this in just 15 minutes.
The Autumn 2011 events are as follows:
September 19th The Tabernacle, Notting Hill 7:00 pm
• Alexander Masters on the genius in his basement
• Simon Baron Cohen gives a psychopathologist’s view on evil
• AS Byatt delves into the world of myths
• Lucy Worsley on the history of the home
• Misha Glennyexposes cybercrime
October 17th The Tabernacle, Notting Hill 7:00pm
• Sonia Faleiro tells us about the bar girls of Mumbai
• Simon Garfield waxes eloquent on fonts
• Luke Johnson serial entrepreneur shares some Midas-touch wisdom
• Raymond Tallis explains why we need art
November 21st The Tabernacle, Notting Hill 7:00 pm
• Geoff Dyer simply dazzles
• AL Kennedy argues for a defense of the Arts
• Vendela Vida on heroines, lies and the essence of fiction
October 18th For the Margins homelessness project Union Chapel 7:00 pm
• John Bird on the homeless and Big Issues
• John O’Farrell on forgetting one’s wife
• Patrick and Henry Cockburn on Henry’s demons and living with schizophrenia
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