Podcast Episodes featuring Lemn Sissay

Amanpour: Aalaya Eastmond, Alicia Garza, Lemn Sissay, Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham

Amanpour - June 27, 2020 11:50 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Aalaya Eastmond, activist and Parkland school shooting survivor, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss the intergenerational fight for racial justice and the exhaustion of being a black woman today. Lemn Sissay, the acclaimed Brit...

S7 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Lemn Sissay

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - November 12, 2019 05:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 717 ratings
For this extra-special bonus episode, I'm delighted to welcome Lemn Sissay to the podcast. Lemn is a poet, author and broadcaster whose memoir, My Name Is Why, is one of the most moving I have ever read. In it, he writes about his childhood - the son of Ethiopian parents who was wrongly given up...

S6, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Lemn Sissay

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - November 12, 2019 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 717 ratings
For this extra-special bonus episode, I'm delighted to welcome Lemn Sissay to the podcast. Lemn is a poet, author and broadcaster whose memoir, My Name Is Why, is one of the most moving I have ever read. In it, he writes about his childhood - the son of Ethiopian parents who was wrongly given up ...

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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien - October 28, 2019 01:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 111 ratings
Best-selling author Lemn Sissay speaks to James O'Brien about growing up facing racism, the moment his foster family "gave him back" and being the official poet of the London 2012 Olympics.

Classic Desert Island Discs: Lemn Sissay

Desert Island Discs - September 15, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Another chance to hear Lemn Sissay's Desert Island Discs from October 2015. Interviewed by Kirsty Young. As a poet, writer and playwright, much of his work tells the story of his search for his birth parents. Born to a young Ethiopian woman who wanted him temporarily fostered while she completed...

3.7 Expect the Unexpected with Radu Isac, Lemn Sissay, Susan Wokoma and Katya Veleva

Global Pillage - April 03, 2017 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
Global Pillage Season 3. Episode 7: "Expect the Unexpected" Recorded 18 March 2017 at Kings Place in London. Released 3 April 2017. Radu Isac and Katya Veleva vs Susan Wokoma and Lemn Sissay vs the Hive Mind of the Audience. Hosted and created by Deborah Frances-White. Questions set by Ned S...

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Desert Island Discs - October 14, 2015 16:08 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Lemn Sissay. As a poet, writer and playwright, much of his work tells the story of his search for his birth parents. Born to a young Ethiopian woman who wanted him temporarily fostered while she completed her studies, he was with a family until he was 12. He...