Liverpool which has been turned into a massive Entertainment Venue as it prepares to open its doors later this week. A huge day for england at the womens world cup. They play nigeria in the last 16. Lam i am live in brisbane where we was be speaking to england fans ahead of that match. It is the first Knockout Game that match. It is the first Knockout Game at that match. It is the first Knockout Game at the world cup. A disappointing end for england at the Netball World Cup. They say theyre gutted but still grateful, as theyre forced to settle for silver after losing to australia in the final. Good morning. A day of sunshine and scattered good morning. A day of sunshine and scattered showers. Many of us missing scattered showers. Many of us missing their showers altogether. Leter missing their showers altogether. Later the missing their showers altogether. Later the cloud will build in the south west and we will the light and patchy south west and we will the light and patchy rein sout
So i feel very, i love being onstage. I love being in a live environment. I havent been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. But im looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, its live and you have a control over the performance, which you dont on screen. Is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when youre onstage . You can feel whether theyre paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home . Yeah. You can . Totally. The last play i did was a beautiful play by Bill Nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. And its shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. And its really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow suffering . And
A dangerous to generalise about the human impulse to create art. But it does seem it is often linked to the experience of dark, painful places. My experience of dark, painful places. My guest today is a renowned poet and playwright whose writing and performance is laid bare his own intimate wounds. Lemn sissay was abandoned as a baby, rejected why his fosterfamily, abandoned as a baby, rejected why his foster family, abused abandoned as a baby, rejected why his fosterfamily, abused in Public Institutions of care. He has since been on a quest to understand his past and piece together his identity. Along the way, he found a remarkable poetic voice. How . Lemn sissay, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. You are a writer, a poet, but you are also a public performer. One is very solitary, one by definition is clearly public. Which is the more authentic, co mforta ble which is the more authentic, comfortable you 7 which is the more authentic, comfortable you . You know, i think they are bot
Im stephen sackur. Its always dangerous to generalise about the human impulse to create art, but it does seem its often linked to the experience of dark, painful places. My guest today is a renowned poet and playwright, whose writing and performances lay bare his own intimate wounds. Lemn sissay was abandoned as a baby, rejected by his foster family, abused in Public Institutions of care. He has since been on a quest to understand his past, and piece together his identity. Along the way, he found a remarkable poetic voice. How . Lemn sissay, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, stephen. You are a writer, a poet, but you are also a public performer. One is very solitary, one by definition is clearly public. Which is the more authentic, comfortable you 7 you know, i think theyre both authentic, and both comfortable. You need to. You need to you need to be alone to write, and to explore, and to find the sort of chemical compound of the poem. And you need to read on stage, so that that chemical compou