Maya Angelou: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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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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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes: Episode 1

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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The fifth volume of  Maya Angelou’s extraordinary memoirs.

4 Extra Debut. 1962: Maya and her son move to Ghana when Guy is involved in a serious road accident. Starring Pippa Bennett Warner.

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.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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

The fifth volume of  Maya Angelou's extraordinary memoirs.

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