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Radio Manchester,8 mins

Lemn Sissay: Memoir explores early life in care

The People

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Poet, author, broadcaster and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Lemn Sissay has spent his entire adult life trying to find his real family. He explores the experience of being fostered in his best selling memoir 'My Name is Why'.

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