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4 Extra Debut. It’s 1945 and Maya is a 17-year-old single mother. Angelou’s evocative and extraordinary memoirs narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

Poet, writer, essayist, and activist Maya Angelou's extraordinary account of Afro-American life in post-war US.

It's 1945 in San Francisco. Aged 17, and a single mother, Maya falls in love.

Dramatised in five parts by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Curly ...... Sope Dirisu
Bailey ...... Paapa Essiedu
Uncle Charley ...... Anthony Ofoegbu

The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written.

They run the gamut from life affirming to tragedy and back again with a tone that is a joyous, direct and searingly honest, and are an extraordinary portrait of 20th-century black America.

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in August 2018.

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14 minutes

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Tue 31 May 2022 02:15
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Credits

Narrator (Older Maya) Adjoa Andoh
Maya Pippa Bennett-Warner
Curly Sope Dirisu
Bailey Paapa Essiedu
Uncle Charley Anthony Ofoegbu
Director Pauline Harris
Producer Pauline Harris
Author Maya Angelou
Adaptor Patricia Cumper

Broadcasts

  • Mon 6 Aug 2018 10:45
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Mon 6 Aug 2018 19:45
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Mon 30 May 2022 14:15
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
  • Tue 31 May 2022 02:15
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra

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Dramatisations of Maya Angelou’s autobiographies, plus specially selected archive.