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A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography, starring Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother and uncle in the small Southern town of Stamps in Arkansas. Struggling with rejection, they endure the prejudice of their white neighbours and suffer several racist incidents. One day, their father unexpectedly returns and...

The Maya Angelou Autobiographies written by Maya Angelou performed by Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781787532014
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: Autobiography
Duration: 415 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Maya Angelou
Performer 1: Adjoa Andoh
Performer 2: Pippa Bennett-Warner

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BBC Radio 4's stunning dramatisations of Maya Angelou's autobiographies - modern American classics beloved worldwide. The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written. They run the gamut from life affirming to tragedy and back again with a tone that is a joyous, direct and searingly honest and are...

an extraordinary portrait of 20th-century black America.

This collection includes: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Gather Together in My Name Singin’ and Swingin’ and Getting’ Merry Like Christmas The Heart of a Woman All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes A Song Flung Up to Heaven Dramatised by award-winning playwrights Patricia Cumper, Winsome Pinnock and Janice Okoh, and starring Indie Gjesdal playing the young Maya, with Pippa Bennett-Warner playing the adult Maya.

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