Maya teams up with Poole for a new dancing career

Maya returns to her grandmother in Arkansas.

Maya is a single mother sliding into the world of prostitution.

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

The poet and writer speaks to James Naughtie and a studio audience about her groundbreaking autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

Drama Series of Maya Angelou's debut autobiography. Aged just 15, Maya is the first Afro-American to work as conductor on the trams in San Francisco. When she turns 16, her life changes forever. Narrator ( Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner Mother ...... Ellen Thomas Receptionist ...... Lauren Cornelius Dramatised by Patricia Cumper Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

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,...

Maya, in a state of trauma, has stopped speaking and is back living with her Grandmother in Arkansas. She meets her first life line in the guise of Mrs. Bertha Flowers, who encourages Maya to read works of literature out loud. Narrator ( Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Indie Gjedsal Bailey ..... Roshawn Hewitt Momma ...... Cecilia Noble Bertha Flowers ...... Nikki Amuka-Bird Dramatised by Patricia Cumper Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou’s iconic debut autobiography powerfully evokes her life as a child in 1930’s America. Maya is reunited with her estranged mother, where she suffers a traumatising sexual abuse. Dr. Angelou’s extraordinary autobiography illuminates her incredible life, her resilience, creativity and power. Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ..... Indie Gjesdal Bailey ..... Roshawn Hewitt Momma ..... Cecilia Noble Mother ..... Ellen Thomas Freeman ...... Richard Pepple Lawyer...

World premiere radio dramatisation of Maya Angelou's iconic debut memoir. This beautiful evocation of Angelou's life in the Deep South, begins in 1931. As an infant Maya and her brother, Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas. Annie, whom they call Momma, runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and becomes the central moral figure in Maya's childhood. Narrator ( Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Indie Gjedsal Bailey ..... Roshawn Hewitt Momma...

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