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Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar. She must induce the punters to buy fraudulent drinks. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.

Maya gets a job as a dancer in a strip bar.

As the first black dancer they've employed, she doesn't have to strip.

But she does have to induce the punters to buy fraudulent drinks in return for her company.

Maya Angelou's third volume of vivid memoirs set in the early 1950s.

Dramatised by Winsome Pinnock

Narrator 鈥�. Adjoa Andoh
Maya 鈥�. Pippa Bennett-Warner
Vivian Baxter 鈥�. Ellen Thomas
Clyde 鈥�. Tumo Reetsang
Eddie 鈥�. Lewis Bray
Jorie 鈥�. Emma Handy
Babe 鈥�. Lucy Doyle
Tom 鈥�. Ryan Whittle

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in October 2018.

Available now

14 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Nov 2022 02:15
大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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  • Tue 2 Oct 2018 10:45
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Tue 2 Oct 2018 19:45
    大象传媒 Radio 4
  • Tue 22 Nov 2022 14:15
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 23 Nov 2022 02:15
    大象传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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