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Maya Angelou: A Song Flung up to Heaven (Omnibus)

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A Song Flung up to Heaven

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Maya’s shocked by the apathetic reaction to Malcolm X's assassination.

In 1965, about to work for Malcolm X, Maya’s shocked by the apathetic reaction to his assassination. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.

When Maya returns from Ghana the first person she calls is Malcolm X. She wants to spend some time with her mother and brother in San Francisco before she begins working with Malcolm in New York. 

Then Malcolm is assassinated. Devastated, Maya is shocked by people's apathetic reaction to the news. 

Omnibus of the sixth and final series of May Angelou's amazing autobiographies.

Narrator, Older Maya - Adjoa Andoh
Maya - Pippa Bennett-Warner
Malcolm X - Don Gilet
Bailey - Samuel Anderson
Mother - Ellen Thomas

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper
Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris

First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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