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EPISODE · May 2, 2019 · 6H 53M

Maya Angelou presents The Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

from Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & Culture · host Maya Angelou

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations Author: Maya Angelou Narrator: Full Cast, Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 2, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner The 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. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings charts Maya’s 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 civil rights. All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes explores her time in Ghana during the 1960s, and in A Song Flung up to Heaven, she returns to America to work with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. When tragedy strikes, her friend James Baldwin helps her out of her devastation – and new opportunities beckon for Maya. Angelou’s memoirs have become modern classics, beloved worldwide, and these stunning dramatisations illuminate her incredible resilience, creativity and power, painting an extraordinary portrait of 20th century black America.

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