Episode 4
Maya鈥檚 in love with her freedom fighter but bored so she creates a group for women to effect change. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Maya鈥檚 civil marriage to South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make is going well.
She helps organise a demonstration after the execution of the first legally elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo, Patrice Lumumba.
But it gets out of hand and turns out to be much bigger than anticipated.
It leads to her first meeting with Malcolm X.
Dramatisation of the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's iconic memoirs by Janice Okoh.
Narrator/Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Rosa ...... Saffron Coomber
Malcolm X ...... Don Gilet
Vusumzi Make ...... Danny Sapani
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in November 2018.
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The Amazing Maya Angelou
Joyous and haunting, mysterious and memorable - her life story is incredible.
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