Manning Marable spent over twenty years writing this exhaustive account of the life of Malcolm X. In it he challenges many preconceptions held about Malcolm and examines Malcolm's own autobiography - revealing the truth about his omissions and inaccuracies.

Malcolm travels to Boston and New York and has his eyes opened about what city life really means. He attempts to hold down a job as a sandwich salesman on the railways but soon becomes embroiled in petty thievery and small time drug trafficking culminating in a prison sentence.

Read by Colin McFarlane

Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. Show less