Lemn Sissay (English Wikipedia)

Presenter: Kirsty Young; Interviewed guest: Lemn Sissay; Producer: Cathy Drysdale (11 October 2015). "Lemn Sissay". Desert Island Discs. 24:15 minutes in. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
Writer and performer: Lemn Sissay; Producer: Ed Morrish (3 October 2016). "The Bed Under the Stairs". Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories. BBC. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
"Lemn Sissay picks up Pen Pinter Prize". BBC News Online. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
"BBC Four - Winter Walks, Series 1, Lemn Sissay". BBC. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
"Have I Got News for You". BBC One. 14 May 2021.
Written and performed by Lemn Sissay; Director: Claire Grove (16 October 2010). "Why I Don't Hate White People". The Wire. BBC. BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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"Saturday Playhouse: Chaos by Design: BBC Radio 4 FM, 10 May 1997". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC Genome Project. 10 May 1997. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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Royle, Sara (9 October 2020). "Lemn Sissay: file it under now". Big Issue North.

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"Something Dark by Lemn Sissay". British Council. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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"Lemn Sissay". British Council. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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Mayo, Douglas (25 June 2017). "Royal Court Theatre announces cast for Jim Cartwright's play Road". British Theatre. Retrieved 29 July 2025.

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"Lemn Sissay". Canongate TV. September 2004. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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"Foundling Fellows: Past Foundling Fellows: 2014: Coram Fellow". foundlingmuseum.org.uk. Foundling Museum. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
"Lemn Sissay MBE joins our Board of Trustees". foundlingmuseum.org.uk. Foundling Museum. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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Sissay, Lemn (2015). "Inspire and be Inspired". youtube.com. University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.

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Chant, Holly (11 June 2021). "Queens Birthday Honours List 2021: MP Meg Hillier and poet Lemn Sissay among those recognised". Hackney Gazette.

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"The Power to Inspire". University of Huddersfield. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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Smith, John (23 October 2023), Week 5: Monday, Richard Osman's House of Games, Richard Osman, Larry Dean, Kirsty Gallacher, retrieved 13 November 2023

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"Lemn Sissay launches scheme to boost black law students in Manchester". www.itv.com. ITV. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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"Internal Flight". BBC2. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
Lemn, Sissay (8 March 2013). "One Extraordinary Woman in My World Now". lemnsissay.com. Retrieved 3 July 2013.

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"Lemn Sissay announced as next University of Manchester Chancellor". University of Manchester. 22 June 2015. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
"Lemn Sissay installed as University of Manchester Chancellor". University of Manchester. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

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"Lemn Sissay: Something Dark". norwichartscentre.co.uk. Norwich Arts Centre. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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Sissay, Lemn (2008). Something Dark. Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-84002-843-0. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015.

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"Lemn Sissay: A child of the state". TED. June 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
"TED Speaker | Lemn Sissay: Poet and playwright". TED. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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Chandler, Mark (7 January 2020). "Child, Busby and Sissay join 2020 Booker Prize judging panel". The Bookseller. Retrieved 31 July 2020.

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"No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 22.
"No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B14.

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Sissay, Lemn (20 August 2015). "Malcolm X's autobiography didn't change me, it saved me". The Guardian.
Lemn, Sissay (30 October 2012). "When I left care they said I was a great survivor". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
Sissay, Lemn (1 January 2016). "Orphans, foundlings and fostering in literature: a child's view of belonging". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
Hattenstone, Simon (2 May 2017). "'I was dehumanised': Lemn Sissay on hearing his harrowing abuse report live on stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
Press Association (3 June 2019). "Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay wins the PEN Pinter prize". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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Saadia Qamar (10 December 2012). "British poet Lemn Sissay leaves audience spellbound". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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Sissay, Lemn (2008). Something Dark. Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-84002-843-0. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015.
"Something Dark by Lemn Sissay". British Council. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
"The Power to Inspire". University of Huddersfield. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
"Lemn Sissay announced as next University of Manchester Chancellor". University of Manchester. 22 June 2015. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
"Saturday Playhouse: Chaos by Design: BBC Radio 4 FM, 10 May 1997". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC Genome Project. 10 May 1997. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

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"Wigan poet receives apology over his childhood abuse in the care system". Wigan Today. 30 April 2018.

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Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

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Sissay, Lemn (2015). "Inspire and be Inspired". youtube.com. University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.

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