5x15 kicks off the new season in 2026 with a stellar line-up of speakers and award-winning storytellers!

Join us in January for an evening of inspiring stories and eye-opening revelations, from reclaiming your health and beating burnout, to royal scandal and creative freedom as an act of resistance.

Speakers

Julia Bradbury on the secrets of personalised medicine. Julia Bradbury is a well-loved television presenter, author, nature advocate, charity campaigner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Walk Yourself Happy. She is best known for turning her lifelong passion for walking into prime-time TV. Following her breast cancer diagnosis and her recovery from a mastectomy in 2021, she made an award-winning documentary about her experience. Having discovered that between 30%-40% of cancers are preventable, Julia is now determined to speak up for a more personalised approach to health care, as detailed in her latest book Hack Yourself Healthy.

Claudia Hammond on overwhelm and how to take the pressure off. Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. She is Visiting Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Sussex and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. She has been awarded the President's Medal from the British Academy, the British Psychological Society's Public Engagement and Media Award, and Mind's Making a Difference Award. Her books include Emotional Rollercoaster, Mind Over Money, and the award-winning Time Warped andThe Keys to Kindness. Her latest book, Overwhelmed: Ways to Take The Pressure Off, offers practical and evidence-based strategies to beat burnout.

Andrew Lownie on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and the rise and fall of the House of York. Andrew Lownie is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and President of the Biographers Club. As a journalist, he has written for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, and the Guardian. His books include the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021). His latest book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, is the first joint biography of the now former Duke and Duchess of York, revealing how the lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson are still deeply intertwined.

Gary Younge on pigeonholing and the power of creative freedom. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly editor-at-large at The Guardian, he has written seven books, most recently Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance (Faber, 2025). Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism and the 2025 Robert. B. Silvers Prize for Journalism, he has written for the New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ and New Statesman, among others. His fifth book, Another Day in the Death of America, won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize from Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation.

Final speaker to be announced soon...