Episode 2
Maya moves to Los Angeles where she witnesses the devastation of the Watts race riots of 1965. Starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Maya has started to write but takes on market research work to supplement it in Watts, Los Angeles.
She sees there first hand the devastation of the race riots of 1965.
Maya also gets a surprise call connected to her past in Ghana.
Maya Angelou's memoir dramatised by Patricia Cumper.
Narrator, Older Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Phil/Rioter ...... Don Gilet
Sheikhali/Rioter ...... Daniel Adegboyega
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in February 2019.
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The Amazing Maya Angelou
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