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The Arts Hour: Writer and poet Lemn Sissay

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Writer and Poet Lemn Sissay

26/02/2022 GMT

Writer and poet Lemn Sissay

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Writer and poet Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay joins Nikki Bedi to talk about his children's book

British and Ethiopian poet and writer Lemn Sissay joins Nikki Bedi to talk about his children’s book.

On this week’s Arts hour, British and Ethiopian poet and writer Lemn Sissay joins Nikki Bedi to talk about his children’s book “Don't Ask The Dragon” 

Nikki goes ‘under the bonnet’ of film-making with actor turned director Rebecca Hall to discover the joys and the problems of shooting a film in black and white.

We’ll dissect the sound of cinema through composer Nathan Johnson’s work on Guillermo del Torro’s Nightmare Alley.

We hear from the American TV writer and producer Jason Katims, whose new series, As We See It, is about three roommates who are all somewhere on the autistic spectrum and are played by neurodiverse actors.
  
Also on the show, Nikki talks to New Zealand comedian Rose Matefeo.

And there is music, improvised on the spot, by South African cellist and composer Abel Selacoe.

(Photo: Lemn Sissay. Credit: Hamish Brown)

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