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Maya鈥檚 arranging her 40th birthday party when she hears Martin Luther King has been assassinated. Starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.

After Martin Luther King's assassination, it's James Baldwin that helps Maya out of her devastation.

Maya goes on to produce a big television documentary series and then gets a call from a publisher at Random House inviting her to write an autobiography.

She refuses repeatedly, until the publisher calls her bluff.

Narrator, Older Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
James Baldwin ...... Don Gilet
Dolly ...... Lisa Davina Phillip
Robert Loomis/Jon ...... Joseph Ayre

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

First broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 4 in March 2019.

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