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4 Extra Debut. Music becomes Maya's refuge. She weds music lover and former sailor, Tosh. Trouble lies ahead. Iconic memoir. Stars Adjoa Andoh.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 2018.

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14 minutes

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  • Mon 1 Oct 2018 10:45
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  • Mon 1 Oct 2018 19:45
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  • Mon 21 Nov 2022 14:15
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  • Tue 22 Nov 2022 02:15
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Dramatisations of Maya Angelou’s autobiographies, plus specially selected archive.