Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

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Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies, that are amongst the most beautiful, joyous and haunting portraits of 20th-century black America ever

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Adjoa Andoh

Pippa Bennett-Warner

Ellen Thomas

Lauren Cornelius

Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou

Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Episode 5

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Maya starts work on the San Francisco trams and her life changes forever.

At 15, Maya is the first Afro-American conductor on the San Francisco trams. At 16, her life changes forever. Stars Adjoa Andoh.

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.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Dramatisation of Maya Angelou's debut memoir, which charts her childhood.

Dramatisation of Maya Angelou's debut memoir, which charts her childhood. Adapted by Patricia Cumper.

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