Maya Angelou: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

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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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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

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Maya Angelou's third volume of memoirs, covering her tour of Porgy & Bess

4 Extra Debut. Music becomes Maya's refuge. She weds music lover and former sailor, Tosh. Trouble lies ahead. Iconic memoir. Stars Adjoa Andoh.

Maya Angelou's third volume of vivid memoirs set in the early 1950's.  

Single mother Maya loves music.   

She meets and marries former sailor Tosh in the record shop where she works.  

Dramatised in five parts by Winsome Pinnock 

Narrator - Older Maya …. Adjoa Andoh
Maya … Pippa Bennett-Warner
Tosh .… Jamie Demetriou
Vivian Baxter .… Ellen Thomas
Clyde …. Tumo Reetsang
Preacher …. Steve Toussaint

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.

Director:  Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

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Dramatisation of Maya Angelou's third volume of memoirs

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