Floats like a butterfly
and stings like a bee.
The South African Weekly Guardian
Bafta nominated broadcaster Lemn Sissay has worked in Screen and Sound for thirty years.
CHANNEL 4 | 2018
SUPERKIDS: BREAKING AWAY FROM CARE
Child of The State 2016
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many pa...
2018 The Listening Post
This is my poem The Listening Post. It will be published in my next book Gold From The Stone.
WISE WORDS FESTIVAL | 2018
CANTUARIAN
A poem written by Canterbury's Poet Laureate about and for the city.
BBC NEWS | 2017
HARDTALK
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM | 2017
LEMN SISSAY POEM
Lemn Sissay MBE is a poet, author, broadcaster and the Chancellor of the University of Manchester. It isn't what's said, it's what's not said what says it all. She Said. The day you brought it home I'll never forget. It was only seven foot tall then. An elephant! I said.
CHANNEL 4 NEWS | 2017
LEMN SISSAY: THERAPY AND LIVE THEATRE
CHANNEL 4 NEWS | 2015
THE WAY WE SHOULD SEE KIDS IN CARE?
One man who knows well the flaws in dealing with children in care is the poet Lemn Sissay. He spent the first 16 years of his life with foster parents and in children's homes.
OLYMPICS | 2012
SPARKED
Created for a permanent poetry installation on the Olympic Park, 'Spark Catchers' is Lemn Sissay's poem celebrating the pioneering industrial action of the women and girls at the Bryant and May match factory in Bow, East London. In 1888 they went on the first un-unionised strike against poor working conditions, which helped spark a social revolution changing working conditions across Britain.
BBC DOCUMENTARY | 1995
INTERNAL FLIGHT
TONY WILSON | 1989
LEMN SISSAY INTERVIEW
Interview with Lemn Sissay, by Tony Wilson, on Granada TV, sometime in 1989, (I think). Copied from a VHS cassette stored in my loft for almost 30 years, so a bit wobbly, at times.
DESIGN INDABA | 2019
LEMN SISSAY
SCIENTIFIC EYE | 1994
REVLEVANCE OF ELEMENTS From 00:15 to 02:07
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POEM | 2017
MORNING BREAKS
Lemn Sissay performs at Wordsmiths & Co. The UK's first live poetry talk show, featuring poets you know from the pages of books and from festival stages. A rare opportunity to witness them sharing stories, poems and opinions as they engage in no-holds-barred conversation right before your widened eyes.
SCIENTIFIC EYE | 1994
MICROBES from 17:01 to 18:48)
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SCIENTIFIC EYE | 1994
3 PHASES OF MATTER from 04:17 to 05:59
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