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Maya discovers that Vus has not been paying the rent. They’re being evicted and moving to Egypt. Starring Danny Sapani.

Maya and her son Guy join Vus in Egypt.

She takes a job as Associate Editor of a newspaper, and faces some difficult truths about Vus.

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

Narrator/Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Vusumzi Make ...... Danny Sapani
Guy ...... Tristan Slowley
David Dubois ...... Don Gilet
Zein Negati ...... Steve Toussaint
Omonadia ...... Saffron Coomber

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.

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