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

Paapa Essiedu

Danny Sapani

Ayesha Antoine

Samuel Anderson

Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou

Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name: Episode 5

Gather Together in My Name

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - Maya Angelou's Autobiographies, Gather Together in My Name, Episode 5

Maya slips into the world of prostitution and narcotics.

Maya slips into the world of prostitution and narcotics. Angelou’s evocative memoirs starring Pippa Bennett-Warner.

Maya has turned to prostitution to help her boyfriend supposedly out of debt. "I felt my own innocence as real as a grain of sand between my teeth".

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
Bailey ......	Paapa Essiedu
LD ...... Danny Sapani
Clara ......	Ayesha Antoine
Troubadour Martin ...... Samuel Anderson

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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