imagine... - 2020: 2. Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me
Contains discriminatory language which some may find offensive.
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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