Lemn Sissay MBE is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor and broadcaster. Born to an Ethiopian mother in Lancashire in 1967, he described his upbringing in children’s homes and foster care in his play “Something Dark”.
What’s your earliest memory?
Holding my arms out in a pram, wanting to be picked up. Whenever we were playing sport in school and I fell to the ground, I always thought there’d be ropes to lift me up. I was falling through to the memory
of wanting that to happen as a baby.
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