Maya Angelou: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Omnibus)

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus)

Drama: Biographical

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): All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

Factual: Life Stories

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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1962: Maya and her son move to Ghana when Guy is involved in a serious road accident.

1962: Maya Angelou and her son move to Ghana when Guy is involved in a serious road accident. Memoir narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

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.

Omnibus of five parts dramatised by Patricia Cumper.  

Narrator – Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner
Guy ...... Tristan Slowly
Julian Mayfield ...... Cyril Nri
Efua Sutherland ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.

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