Episode details
Radio 4,20 Jun 2018,15 mins,
Contains language which some may find offensive.
Available for over a year
Maya, in a state of trauma, has stopped speaking and is back living with her Grandmother in Arkansas. She meets her first life line in the guise of the wonderfully refined Mrs. Flowers. Maya Angelou's iconic debut autobiography powerfully evokes her life as a child in 1930s America. Narrator ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Indie Gjesdal Bailey ...... Roshawn Hewitt Momma ...... Cecilia Noble Mother ...... Ellen Thomas Mrs Flowers ...... Nikki Amuka-Bird Dramatised by Patricia Cumper. Director: Pauline Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.
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