Description
Maya, now aged 15, spends time with her father, Big Bailey. They go on a surprising and chaotic trip to Mexico which leads Maya onto a fight with her father's hostile girlfriend, Dolores.
Narrator ( Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Dolores .......Nikki Amuka-Bird
Daddy ...... Richard Pepple
Spanish voices ......Maider Jáuregui, Rocío Mesonero
Celia Romo, Julio Villa-García, Hugo Sánchez and Francisco Oda-Ángel
@ Instituto Cervantes, Manchester
Dramatised by Patricia Cumper
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
After Martin Luther King's assassination, it's James Baldwin that helps Maya out of her devastation. Maya goes onto 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...
Published 03/01/19
Maya and Dolly play a trick on Sheikhali after discovering his deceit. Maya is a good friend of James Baldwin and is inspired again to work for Martin Luther King.
Narrator, Older Maya - Adjoa Andoh
Maya - Pippa Bennett-Warner
Dolly - Lisa Davina Phillip
Sheikhali - Daniel Adegboyega
James...
Published 02/28/19
Maya accepts Sheikhali into her home where for a while their love is reignited, but a night out at the movies precipitates the beginning of the end.
Narrator, Older Maya - Adjoa Andoh
Maya - Pippa Bennett-Warner
Sheikhali - Daniel Adegboyega
Mother - Ellen Thomas
Bailey - Samuel...
Published 02/27/19