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Maya’s in love with her freedom fighter but bored so she creates a group for women to effect change. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.

Maya’s civil marriage to South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make is going well.

She helps organise a demonstration after the execution of the first legally elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo, Patrice Lumumba.

But it gets out of hand and turns out to be much bigger than anticipated.

It leads to her first meeting with Malcolm X.

Dramatisation of the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's iconic memoirs by Janice Okoh.

Narrator/Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Rosa ...... Saffron Coomber
Malcolm X ...... Don Gilet
Vusumzi Make ...... Danny Sapani

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.

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14 minutes

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