The Amazing Life of Olaudah Equiano

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A former enslaved person himself, Olaudah Equiano (c1745-97) became a key figure in the abolitionist movement. His influence was built in great part on his memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which detailed slavery's horrors and was widely read at the time. The Amazing life of Olaudah Equiano programme has actor Tayo Aluko playing Equiano Produced by Marc Wadsworth and Deborah Hobson The-Latest Ltd production for BBC Radio 4