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Radio 4,21 Jun 2018,15 mins

SeriesI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Episode 4

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

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Maya, now aged 15, spends time with her father, Daddy Bailey. They go on a surprising and chaotic trip to Mexico. Maya Angelou's iconic debut autobiography powerfully evokes her life growing up in 1930s America. Narrrator ...... Adjoa Andoh Dolores ...... Nikki Amuka-Bird Daddy Bailey ...... Richard Pepple Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner Spanish voices: Maider Jáuregui Rocío Mesonero Celia Romo Julio Villa-García Hugo Sánchez Francisco Oda-Ángel Dramatised by Patricia Cumper. Director: Pauline Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.

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