imagine... - 2020: 2. Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
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Following the publication of his new memoir My Name Is Why, writer Lemn Sissay tells Alan Yentob what it was like to grow up as the only black child in a sleepy market town outside Wigan in the 1970s.听
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