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

Nikki Amuka-Bird

Richard Pepple

Maider Jauregui

Rocio Mesonero

Celia Romo

Julio Villa-Garcia

Hugo Sanchez

Francisco Oda-Angel

Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou

Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Episode 4

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - Maya Angelou's Autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Episode 4

Aged 15, Maya visits her estranged father on a chaotic and surprising trip to Mexico.

Aged 15, Maya visits her estranged father, where they go on a chaotic, surprising trip to Mexico. Stars Pippa Bennett Warner.

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.

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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