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S3 Lemn Sissay: ‘I only knew the importance of family by not having it’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Bob Marley's Resurrection Song

Bob Marley was hugely influential in your adolescence. He gave you a sense of understanding some of the experience that Bob Marley had gone through. And one of the beautiful things about him actually is that he could speak of his vulnerable side as well as his side that was angry. They sat next to each other so he could talk about lovers and love and he could talks about his mother, which is like the higher power,. It's a beautiful song of Marley's. So you had all of these parts of him. And I just, I felt a kinship to that.

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