Maya Angelou: Gather Together in My Name

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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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Adjoa Andoh

Pippa Bennett-Warner

Samuel Anderson

Danny Sapani

Ayesha Antoine

Pauline Harris

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Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name: Episode 4

Gather Together in My Name

Episode 4

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Maya teams up with Poole for a new dancing career.

Maya attempts a new dancing career, only it doesn't quite go to plan. Angelou’s evocative memoirs narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

Maya teams up with Poole for a new career in dancing, only it doesn't go to plan. 

So when she meets LD, she mistakenly believes he's the man of her dreams.

Poet, writer, essayist, and activist Maya Angelou's extraordinary account of Afro-American life in post-war US.

Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ......	Pippa Bennett-Warner
RL Poole ...... Samuel Anderson
LD ...... Danny Sapani
Clara ......	Ayesha Antoine

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.   

Director:  Pauline Harris 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Second volume of Maya Angelou's evocative and extraordinary memoirs.

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

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