Poet and broadcaster Lemn Sissay reads from ‘Let the Light Pour In’ for his late friend on Celebration Day

Lemn Sissay OBE, the poet and broadcaster, read a work from his 2013 bestselling collection Let the Light Pour In in honour of his friend Sarah Weir, with whom he worked as a poet for the 2012 London Olympics before she died of cancer. “She said to her partner, when I pass away, when I die, I want this poem to be read to me as if it’s from you, so her partner asked me to read it at her celebration,” he says. The short film, directed by Oliver Parker and shot at Dr Johnson’s House in London, is...