RHLSTP Book Club 92 - Lemn Sissay

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Book Club #92 - Let The Light Pour In - It’s another live podcast, this time with the remarkable poet and playwright Lemn Sissay MBE OBE and more honours than you can shake a stick at. They discuss the comedy scene in Manchester in the early 90s, how writing a quatrain a day has led to this collection of amusing, thoughtful and brilliant poetry and acts as an inspiration to us all to write something every day, for ourselves. They also discuss Lemn’s heartbreaking, yet powerful autobiography “My Name Is Why” telling about his childhood, the betrayal of his foster family, life in care and how his life was affected in very different ways by the work of Lenny Henry and that of Jim Davidson. And ultimately how he has weathered his childhood trauma and processed it to become the incredible man he is today.

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/let-the-light-pour-in-lemn-sissay/7427751?ean=9781805301134

Or the audiobook here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-the-Light-Pour-In/dp/B0C6V334X4/

See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/

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0:25.9	October so we've got lots in the bank. Do listen to them all. There's some fantastic
0:31.5	things coming up but the big news is I'm off on my first stand-up
0:35.9	show in six years. In April and May, I would love you to come and see it. Tickets are selling
0:41.9	pretty slowly at the moment. There's still some time to go.
0:44.7	It's a show about my testicular cancer that I don't really like to talk about, but I thought I would do a show about it.
0:52.0	It's pretty funny, there's some serious bits, but it's mainly funny stuff.
0:56.0	It's going very well in preview, so I would love you to see it.
0:59.0	Some places are sold out, but most places aren't.
1:01.0	If you go to Richard Herring.com slash
1:03.0	ballback slash tour you can see all of those dates
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