Maya Angelou: Gather Together in My Name

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

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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

Ellen Thomas

Cecilia Noble

Ayesha Antoine

Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou

Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name: Episode 2

Gather Together in My Name

Episode 2

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Maya is a single mother sliding into the world of prostitution.

Teenage Maya slides into the world of prostitution. Angelou’s evocative and extraordinary memoirs. Stars Pippa Bennett-Warner.

Maya is 18 and a single mother. To thwart a seduction, Maya has a business proposition and slides into the world of prostitution.

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
Mother Cleo ...... Ellen Thomas
Johnnie Mae ...... Cecilia Noble
Beatrice ...... Ayesha Antoine

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

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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.

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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