Maya Angelou: Gather Together in My Name (Omnibus)

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus)

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

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

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus): Gather Together in My Name

Gather Together in My Name

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Aged 17 and a single mother, Maya falls in love.

Aged 17 and a single mother, Maya falls in love. Extraordinary memoirs of an extraordinary life, starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.

1945, San Francisco: Aged 17, and a single mother, Maya falls in love, but sinks into the world of prostitution and narcotics... 

The second instalment of autobiographies by poet, essayist, writer and activist Maya Angelou. 

Omnibus of five parts.  

Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Curly ...... Sope Dirisu
Bailey ...... Paapa Essiedu
Uncle Charley ...... Anthony Ofoegbu

The books 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.

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper 

Directed by Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

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