Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: Fri 22^nd Jun 2018, 10:45 on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: Sat 26^th Feb 2022, 02:15 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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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.

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

Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Mother ...... Ellen Thomas
Receptionist ...... Lauren Cornelius

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Director: Pauline Harris.

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