Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Thu 21^st Jun 2018, 10:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Fri 25^th Feb 2022, 02:15 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Maya, now aged 15, spends time with her father, Daddy Bailey.

They go on a surprising and chaotic trip to Mexico.

Maya Angelou's iconic debut autobiography powerfully evokes her life growing up in 1930s America.

Narrrator ...... Adjoa Andoh
Dolores ...... Nikki Amuka-Bird
Daddy Bailey ...... Richard Pepple
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner

Spanish voices:

Maider Jáuregui
Rocío Mesonero
Celia Romo
Julio Villa-García
Hugo Sánchez
Francisco Oda-Ángel

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Director: Pauline Harris.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018. Show less