Upcoming Events
Emmanuel Centre, SW1P
Featuring Talks By:
Jung Chang
Fly, Wild Swans
Rosie Boycott
In conversation
5x15 Special: Jung Chang on Fly, Wild Swans
More than 30 years have passed since Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was banned in China and embraced across the world. Now she returns to the 5x15 stage to discuss the long-awaited sequel
Emmanuel Centre, SW1P
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - April 2026
Join us in April for more captivating stories, from an award-winning line-up of speakers, live at The Tabernacle.
The Tabernacle, W11
The Tabernacle, W11
Featuring Talks By:
Margaret Busby
on the people and places that have shaped her exceptional life.
Nick Crane
on the secret history of Britain's footpaths.
Serena Kutchinsky
on the object that consumed her father’s dreams, and spelled her family’s downfall.
Sara Wheeler
on the life and work of pioneering travel writer Jan Morris.
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - April 2026
Join us in April for more captivating stories, from an award-winning line-up of speakers, live at The Tabernacle.
The Tabernacle, W11
5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them
Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
Featuring Talks By:
Geoff Dyer
on a photograph that has had a lasting impact on his way of looking at the world.
Ekow Eshun
on an artwork that has shaped his thinking about identity, beauty and power.
Andrew Graham-Dixon
on his favourite painting by Vermeer, re-seen through his radically new interpretation of the artist’s greatest works.
Katy Hessel
on an artwork by a woman artist that transformed how she sees the story of art.
Sir Grayson Perry
on an artwork that has influenced his creative life and ideas about art.
5x15: Art Experts on the Art That Changed Them
Five leading cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them.
Royal Geographical Society, SW7
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026
Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.
The Tabernacle, W11
The Tabernacle, W11
Featuring Talks By:
Hannah Critchlow
on the cutting-edge neuroscience of the future.
Jill Dawson
on the most famous occult artist you've never heard of.
Blake Morrison
on the challenges, ethics and charms of memoir
Philippa Perry
on therapy and her cosy crime caper.
Tim Spector
on fermentation and the life-changing power of microbes.
5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - May 2026
Join us at The Tabernacle in May for an evening of cutting-edge thinking, intriguing stories and inspiration.
The Tabernacle, W11
Union Chapel, N1
Featuring Talks By:
William Dalrymple
on the story of zero: how Indian numbers conquered the world
Alice Loxton
on England’s greatest love story and the building of the Eleanor Crosses
Peter Frankopan
on The United States at 250: the little-known background to the Declaration of Independence.
Gary Younge
on the story of Georges Dukson, a Black resistance fighter erased from the Liberation of Paris
Kate Williams
on who really killed Anne Boleyn
5x15: History's Untold Stories
For this special 5x15, five leading historians will each tell a surprising story from the past, from the medieval world to the modern age.
Union Chapel, N1