A Good Read | Neil Brand and Tiff Stevenson
Based on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouÂ
The pianist and broadcaster Neil Brand and actor Tiff Stevenson choose books they love. Tiff's choice is I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings the first of Maya Angelou's books of memoirs about her childhood in the southern USA under segregation. It's a book Tiff loved as a schoolgirl and still loves today.
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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 27'38''
- Broadcast date: 2021
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UK only
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- Literary Resource
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