Lemn Sissay, the Glossary

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1. 87 relations: Alcoholism, ALL FM, Apples and Snakes, Archant, Atherton, Greater Manchester, Avoidant personality disorder, Battersea Arts Centre, BBC Four, BBC Genome Project, BBC News Online, BBC One, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, Benjamin Zephaniah, Berkshire, Bloodaxe Books, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, Booker Prize, Bracknell, British Council, British Film Institute, Canongate Books, Commission for Racial Equality, Commonword, Contact Theatre, David Cameron, Deirdre Osborne, Dent railway station, Dentdale, Desert Island Discs, Emily Wilson (classicist), Ethiopia, Ethiopian Airlines, Foundling Museum, Frantic Assembly, Grumpy Old Men (TV series), Have I Got News for You, Higher End, Ian Hislop, ITV (TV network), Jim Cartwright, Jo Brand, Lancashire, Lee Child, Leeds Playhouse, Liverpool, Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), Manchester, Mandarin Chinese, Margaret Busby, ... Expand index (37 more) »

2. English people of Eritrean descent
3. English people of Ethiopian descent
4. People from Higher End
5. People with avoidant personality disorder

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.

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ALL FM

ALL FM (96.9 MHz) is a community radio station serving south, central and east Manchester and based in the South Manchester suburb of Levenshulme.

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Apples and Snakes

Apples and Snakes, based at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, south-east London, is an organisation for performance poetry and the spoken word in England.

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Archant

Archant Limited is a newspaper and magazine publishing company with headquarters in Norwich, England.

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Atherton, Greater Manchester

Atherton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire.

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Avoidant personality disorder

Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD) or anxious personality disorder is a Cluster C personality disorder characterized by excessive social anxiety and inhibition, fear of intimacy (despite an intense desire for it), severe feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, and an overreliance on avoidance of feared stimuli (e.g.

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Battersea Arts Centre

The Battersea Arts Centre ("BAC") is a performance space specialising in theatre productions.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Genome Project

The BBC Genome Project is an online searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the Radio Times from the first issue in 1923 to 2009.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. Lemn Sissay and Benjamin Zephaniah are black British writers.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Bloodaxe Books

Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry.

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Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications

Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications (BLP) is a radical London-based publishing company founded by Guyanese activists Jessica Huntley (23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013)Margaret Busby,, The Guardian, 27 October 2013.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Bracknell

Bracknell is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, the westernmost area within the Greater London Urban Area and the administrative centre of the borough of Bracknell Forest.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Canongate Books

Canongate Books (trading as Canongate) is an independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Commission for Racial Equality

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to address racial discrimination and promote racial equality.

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Commonword

Commonword (1975–present) is a writing development organisation based in Manchester, North West England, providing opportunities for new and aspiring writers to develop their talent and potential, promoting new writing on national and international levels.

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Contact is an arts organisation based in Manchester, England.

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David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.

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Deirdre Osborne

Deirdre Osborne Hon.

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Dent railway station

Dent is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between and via.

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Dentdale

Dentdale is a dale or valley in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Cumbria, England.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Emily Wilson (classicist)

Emily Rose Caroline Wilson (born 1971) is a British American classicist, author, translator, and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines (translit), formerly Ethiopian Air Lines (EAL), is the flag carrier of Ethiopia, and is wholly owned by the country's government. EAL was founded on 21 December 1945 and commenced operations on 8 April 1946, expanding to international flights in 1951. The firm became a share company in 1965 and changed its name from Ethiopian Air Lines to Ethiopian Airlines.

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Foundling Museum

The Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, London, tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for children at risk of abandonment.

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Frantic Assembly

Frantic Assembly is a theatre production company.

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Grumpy Old Men (TV series)

Grumpy Old Men is a conversational-style British television series, first shown in October 2003 on BBC Two.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is a British television panel show, produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC, which premiered on 28 September 1990.

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Higher End

Higher End or Billinge Higher End is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

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Ian Hislop

Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is a British journalist, satirist, and television personality.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jim Cartwright

Jim Cartwright (born 27 June 1958) is an English dramatist, born in Farnworth, Lancashire.

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Jo Brand

Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957) is an English actress, comedian, presenter and writer.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Lee Child

James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series.

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Leeds Playhouse

Leeds Playhouse is a theatre in the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)

The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a nonprofit theatre on Lyric Square, off King Street, Hammersmith, London.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Margaret Busby

Margaret Yvonne Busby,, Hon. Lemn Sissay and Margaret Busby are black British writers and Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Mark the Evangelist

Mark the Evangelist (Koinē Greek: Μᾶρκος, romanized: Mârkos), also known as John Mark (Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννης Μάρκος, romanized: Iōannēs Mârkos; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ, romanized: Yōḥannān) or Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark.

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Maureen Freely

Maureen Deidre Freely FRSL (born July 1952) is an American novelist, professor, and translator. Lemn Sissay and Maureen Freely are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Nazir Afzal

Nazir Afzal (born 1 October 1962) is a British solicitor and former prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

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Norwich Arts Centre

Norwich Arts Centre is a live music venue, theatre and art gallery located in St Benedict's Street in Norwich, Norfolk, England.

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Oberon Books

Oberon Books is a London-based publisher of drama texts and books on theatre.

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Ofsted

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Paul Merton

Paul James Martin (born 9 July 1957), known by the stage name Paul Merton, is an English comedian.

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Payback Press

The Payback Press was a specialist imprint of Canongate Books devoted to (initially) reprints of classic black crime novels, which later branched out into contemporary black fiction.

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PEN Pinter Prize

The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC).

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Radio Academy Awards

The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry.

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Refugee Boy

Refugee Boy is a teen novel written by Benjamin Zephaniah.

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Richard Osman's House of Games

Richard Osman's House of Games is a British quiz show hosted by Richard Osman and produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC.

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Road (play)

Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, directed by Simon Curtis.

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Romesh Ranganathan

Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978) is a British actor, comedian and presenter.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Sameer Rahim

Sameer Rahim is a British literary journalist and novelist.

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Saturday Live (radio series)

Saturday Live is a BBC Radio 4 magazine programme, first broadcast on 16 September 2006.

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Southbank Centre

Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).

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The Gambia

The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Met (arts centre)

The Met (popularly known as Bury Met) is a performing arts venue in Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010.

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Tom Bloxham (property developer)

Thomas Paul Richard Bloxham MBE (born 20 December 1963) is a British property developer, founder of award winning urban renewal property development company Urban Splash and the modern housebuilder House by Urban Splash - companies which have won 450 awards to date for architecture, design and business success.

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Toxteth

Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool in the county of Merseyside.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield (informally Huddersfield University) is a public research university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.

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Walking with... (2019 TV series)

Walking with... is a BBC English Regions television series where presenters take solitary walks along scenic paths, filming themselves and their surroundings with a 360-degree camera on a selfie stick.

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Wigan

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas.

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Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Wigan Council, or Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

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2010 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2010 were announced on 31 December 2009 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Christopher and Nevis and other Commonwealth realms to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2010.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.

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2021 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours for 2021 are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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See also

English people of Eritrean descent

• Deno (singer)
• Hannah Pool
• Lemn Sissay
• Marli Harwood
• Mo Adams
• Sirak Beyene

English people of Ethiopian descent

• Alula Pankhurst
• Christina Adane
• Izzy Bizu
• Lemn Sissay
• Mahamed Mahamed
• Nahem Shoa
• Peter Ustinov
• Tamara Ustinov
• Zak Mahamed

People from Higher End

• Andy Griffin
• Angus Fraser
• Carley Stenson
• Lee Croft
• Lemn Sissay
• Nancy Elizabeth
• Neil Budworth
• Neil Ogden
• Richard Ashcroft
• Richard D. Lewis
• Shaun Ainscough
• Shaun Briscoe
• Stuart Littler
• Thérèse Coffey
• Zac Thompson

People with avoidant personality disorder

• Jenny Lawson
• Lemn Sissay
• Matthew James Harris
• Richard Allen Davis
• Ricky Williams
• Robert Farquharson
• Stanley Lingar
• Waneta Hoyt

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemn_Sissay

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