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BBC Full Cast Radio 4Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Dramatization
Maya Angelou: The Autobiographies
Six BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations
By: Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Indie Gjesdal, full cast
Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 02-05-2019
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
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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