Episode 5

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Maya has turned to prostitution to help her boyfriend supposedly out of debt. "I felt my own innocence as real as a grain of sand between my teeth". Poet, writer, essayist, and activist Maya Angelou's extraordinary account of Afro-American life in post-war US. Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner Bailey ...... Paapa Essiedu LD ...... Danny Sapani Clara ...... Ayesha Antoine Troubadour Martin ...... Samuel Anderson Dramatised by Patricia Cumper. Director: Pauline Harris. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.