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4 Extra Debut. Music becomes Maya's refuge. She weds music lover and former sailor, Tosh. Trouble lies ahead. Iconic memoir. Stars Adjoa Andoh.
Maya Angelou's third volume of vivid memoirs set in the early 1950's.
Single mother Maya loves music.
She meets and marries former sailor Tosh in the record shop where she works.
Dramatised in five parts by Winsome Pinnock
Narrator - Older Maya …. Adjoa Andoh
Maya … Pippa Bennett-Warner
Tosh .… Jamie Demetriou
Vivian Baxter .… Ellen Thomas
Clyde …. Tumo Reetsang
Preacher …. Steve Toussaint
The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written.
They run the gamut from life affirming to tragedy and back again with a tone that is a joyous, direct and searingly honest, and are an extraordinary portrait of 20th-century black America.
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.
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The Amazing Maya Angelou
Joyous and haunting, mysterious and memorable - her life story is incredible.
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Mon 1 Oct 201810:45BBC Radio 4- Mon 1 Oct 201819:45BBC Radio 4
- Mon 21 Nov 202214:15BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 22 Nov 202202:15BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Dramatisations of Maya Angelou’s autobiographies, plus specially selected archive.
