Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

A Song Flung up to Heaven

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 26^th Feb 2019, 10:45 on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: Wed 20^th Dec 2023, 02:15 on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Listen now

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. Show less