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Kindness is a currency
Leicester Mercury
|September 13, 2025
PEOPLE need people, the late Benjamin Zephaniah wrote, and that simple, powerful premise inspired his friend, Holly Newson, to create this uplifting show.
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She's inviting guests and listeners, to share stories of the times they have received kindness and how it shaped them. First up she speaks to deaf poet Raymond Antrobus, the Ted Hughes Award winner who's on the GCSE syllabus and whose book, Can Bears Ski?, was a CBeebies bedtime story, read by Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis using British Sign
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