Maya Angelou
James Naughtie and a studio audience talk to Maya Angelou about volume one of her groundbreaking autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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Desert Island Discs
Michael Parkinson's castaway is writer Maya Angelou
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- Sun 4 Aug 200216:00BBC Radio 4
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Maya Angelou
A collection of programmes paying tribute to Maya Angelou
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