BBC Radio 4's stunning dramatisations of Maya Angelou's autobiographies - modern American classics beloved worldwide.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.This collection includes- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Gather Together in My Name Singin? and Swingin? and Getting? Merry Like Christmas The Heart of a Woman All God?s Children Need Travelling Shoes A Song Flung Up to HeavenDramatised by award-winning playwrights Patricia Cumper, Winsome Pinnock and Janice Okoh, and starring Indie Gjesdal playing the young Maya with Pippa Bennett-Warner playing the adult Maya.
