Episode 2
Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar. She must induce the punters to buy fraudulent drinks. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar.
As the first black dancer they've employed, she doesn't have to strip.
But she does have to induce the punters to buy fraudulent drinks in return for her company.
Maya Angelou's third volume of vivid memoirs set in the early 1950s.
Dramatised by Winsome Pinnock
Narrator …. Adjoa Andoh
Maya …. Pippa Bennett-Warner
Vivian Baxter …. Ellen Thomas
Clyde …. Tumo Reetsang
Eddie …. Lewis Bray
Jorie …. Emma Handy
Babe …. Lucy Doyle
Tom …. Ryan Whittle
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.
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The Amazing Maya Angelou
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