Episode 5

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After Martin Luther King's assassination, it's James Baldwin that helps Maya out of her devastation. Maya goes on to produce a big television documentary series and then gets a call from a publisher at Random House inviting her to write an autobiography. She refuses repeatedly, until the publisher calls her bluff. Narrator, Older Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner James Baldwin ...... Don Gilet Dolly ...... Lisa Davina Phillip Robert Loomis/Jon ...... Joseph Ayre Dramatised by Patricia Cumper Produced and directed by Pauline Harris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2019.