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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 support 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in November 2018.
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