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Maya moves to Los Angeles where she witnesses the devastation of the Watts race riots of 1965. Starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.

Maya has started to write but takes on market research work to supplement it in Watts, Los Angeles.

She sees there first hand the devastation of the race riots of 1965.

Maya also gets a surprise call connected to her past in Ghana.

Maya Angelou's memoir dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator, Older Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Phil/Rioter ...... Don Gilet
Sheikhali/Rioter ...... Daniel Adegboyega

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019.

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14 minutes

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Wed 20 Dec 202302:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  • Tue 26 Feb 201910:45
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  • Tue 26 Feb 201919:45
    BBC Radio 4
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