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

Sope Dirisu

Paapa Essiedu

Anthony Ofoegbu

Pauline Harris

Maya Angelou

Patricia Cumper

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name: Episode 1

Gather Together in My Name

Episode 1

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It's 1945, and Maya is a 17-year-old single mother.

4 Extra Debut. It’s 1945 and Maya is a 17-year-old single mother. Angelou’s evocative and extraordinary memoirs narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

Poet, writer, essayist, and activist Maya Angelou's extraordinary account of Afro-American life in post-war US.

It's 1945 in San Francisco. Aged 17, and a single mother, Maya falls in love.

Dramatised in five parts by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator (Older Maya) ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ......	Pippa Bennett-Warner
Curly ......	Sope Dirisu
Bailey ......	Paapa Essiedu
Uncle Charley ...... Anthony Ofoegbu

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 August 2018.

Maya Angelou's Autobiographies: Gather Together in My Name

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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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