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Lemn Sissay's Social Enterprise: Episode 3

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Lemn Sissay explores what charity means when it comes to presents.

Poet, broadcaster and writer Lemn Sissay explores what charity means when it comes to presents.

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.

This week he explores the idea of food - with the help of Nick Cole, the UK project director for Operation Christmas Child, and comedian Jason Cook.

Written and performed by Lemn Sissay
Guest: Nick Cole.
Guest: Jason Cook

Producer: Ed Morrish
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Poet, broadcaster and writer Lemn Sissay explores charity, social enterprise and people.

Poet, broadcaster and writer Lemn Sissay explores charity, social enterprise and people, through stand-up, interview and poetry

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