Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise
Lemn Sissay explores charity and philanthropy
- Genre
- Comedy
- Broadcast
- 2019
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 4 (1 series)
- Star
- Lemn Sissay
- Writer
- Lemn Sissay
- Producer
- Ed Morrish
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's Social Enterprise is a four-part series for BBC Radio 4, considering what these dinners have taught him about charity, social enterprise, and people, through stand-up, interview and poetry.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 27th November 2019 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
- Last new broadcast
- Wednesday 18th December 2019 on BBC Radio 4 at 11:30am
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes