Episode 5

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Aged just 15, Maya is the first Afro-American to work as conductor on the trams in San Francisco. When she turns 16, her life changes forever. Maya Angelou's iconic debut autobiography powerfully evokes her early life growing up in America. Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner Mother ...... Ellen Thomas Receptionist ...... Lauren Cornelius Dramatised by Patricia Cumper. Director: Pauline Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.