Refugee Journalist,
Zwedu Mengiste, interviews Lemn Sissay and Benjamin Zephaniah about the new
adaption of Refugee Boy for West Yorkshire Playhouse
Mengiste,
from Ethiopia ,
encourages Sissay and Zephaniah to talk about themselves, their work,
migration, human nature and how Sissay feels he's following in Zephaniah's foosteps.
Quotes from the podcast:
"Kindness is a language, honesty and openness are languages...
we need to employ them to their fullest."
Lemn Sissay
"Every time you hear so many thousand refugees...
everyone one of those individuals is alive... not just a statistic. A lot of
people in England
can be lazy in their thinking."
Benjamin Zephaniah
"One of the advantages of being in
"Mankind didn't evolve in Britain... Borders are man made - we are one people". - Benjamin
Zephaniah
"Migration is part of who we are.. Immigration and migration
are part of what it is to be human." - Lemn Sissay
To listen
to this 23 minute Lucy Radio interview please click to download the podcast from the following dropbox public folder.
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