Maya Angelou: The Heart of a Woman

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Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies, that are amongst the most beautiful, joyous and haunting portraits of 20th-century black America ever

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: The Heart of a Woman: Episode 3

The Heart of a Woman

Episode 3

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Maya meets South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make, and her life changes forever.

Whilst working for Martin Luther King Jr, Maya gets engaged but also falls for a freedom fighter. Starring Steve Toussaint.

Whilst working for Martin Luther King Jr at the SCLC in New York, Maya becomes engaged to Thomas, a local man.

But at the same time, she falls in love with South African freedom fighter, Vusumzi Make.  

After knowing him only a week, she is forced to choose between the two men.

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
Vusumzi Make ...... Danny Sapani
Thomas ...... Don Gilet
Hazel ...... Saffron Coomber

Director:  Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: The Heart of a Woman

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Dramatisation of Maya Angelou's fourth volume of memoirs.

Dramatisation of Maya Angelou's fourth volume of evocative and extraordinary memoirs of Afro-American life in postwar US.

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