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Radio 4,26 Feb 2019,14 mins,

SeriesA Song Flung up to Heaven

Episode 2

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies
Contains strong language.

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Maya has started to write but takes on market research work to supplement it in Watts, Los Angeles. She sees there first hand the devastation of the race riots of 1965. Maya also gets a surprise call connected to her past in Ghana. Maya Angelou's memoir dramatised by Patricia Cumper. Narrator, Older Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner Phil/Rioter ...... Don Gilet Sheikhali/Rioter ...... Daniel Adegboyega Director: Pauline Harris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019.

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