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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

Episode 1

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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After her son’s road accident, Maya’s helped by the kindness of Ghana’s famous poet and playwright Efua Sutherland.

She’s also helped by ex-pat’s living close by, whom she names as the ‘revolutionary returnees’.

As a group of Black Americans they are all hoping to assimilate into Ghanaian life, but it’s not quite as they expected.

The fifth volume of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary memoirs.

Dramatised in five parts by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator – Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner
Guy ...... Tristan Slowley
Julian Mayfield ...... Cyril Nri
Efua Sutherland ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019. Show less

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