Maya moves to New York to develop her writing, but realises there is much to be improved. Starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.
It's 1959 and Maya has moved to New York, to develop her writing but also to get involved in civil rights.
She's inspired by seeing Martin Luther King Jr give a speech in a local church, and decides to create a show in of his movement, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Dramatisation of the fourth volume of Maya Angelou's iconic memoirs by Janice Okoh.
Narrator/Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Martin Luther King Jr. ...... Steve Toussaint
John Killens ...... Don Gilet
Stanley Levinson ...... Lewis Bray
Guy ...... Will Romain
Director: Pauline Harris.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.
