Episode 1
Poet and writer Lemn Sissay explores what charity means when it comes to shelter. With Polly Neate and Sarah Morgan. From 2019.
Every year since 2013, the poet, broadcaster and author Lemn Sissay has arranged a Christmas dinner for people aged 18-25 who have left the care system and have no one with whom to have Christmas dinner. No one to give presents or receive them. No-one on the other end of the cracker.
This is not a charity. It isn't even an organisation. It's a project Lemn undertook because he understands how it feels - at 18 he was released from a children's home and given an empty flat in Wigan, with no one in the world who had known him for longer than a year.
Lemn Sissay鈥檚 Social Enterprise is a four-part series for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, considering what these dinners have taught him about charity, social enterprise, and people, through stand-up, interview and poetry.
In this episode, he explores the idea of shelter in all its forms - with the help of Polly Neate, the Chief Executive of the charity Shelter, and comedy writer Sarah Morgan.
Written and performed by Lemn Sissay.
Produced by Ed Morrish.
A Somethin' Else production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2019.
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