Lemn Sissay: What Happens When Home Rejects You?

The Modern House Podcast by Matt Gibberd

Aug 20, 202648:55Arts

Lemn Sissay is a poet, playwright and broadcaster. Few people have thought more deeply about the meaning of home than Lemn. As a baby, Lemn was separated from his Ethiopian mother and placed into foster care with a white...

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