Episode 1

Available for over a year

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.