The Maya Angelou Autobiographies by Maya Angelou, Full Cast, ... - 9781787532014

The Maya Angelou AutobiographiesSix BBC Radio 4 dramatisations\nAuthor(s): Maya Angelou, Full Cast, Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner\nFormat: CD-Audio\nPublisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: BBC Physical Audio\nISBN-13: 9781787532014, 978-1787532014\nSynopsis\nSix BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner\n\nThe books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they run the gamut from life-affirming to tragic, and back again.\n\nI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings charts Mayas childhood in the Deep South in the 1930s; while Gather Together In My Name recounts her descent into prostitution and narcotics. Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas sees her forging a career in showbusiness, and in The Heart of a Woman, she moves to New York and becomes involved in.