I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Episode Four
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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
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