TED Talks

Lemn Sissay: A child of the state

TV-PG
2012 • E100    Jun 1, 2012    15m
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.

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