Gather Together In My Name [Maya Angelou's Autobiographies]

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0120180806Poet, 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.

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

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

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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 is a single mother sliding into the world of prostitution.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

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Maya is struggling to find a way forward, and has returned to her Grandmother in Arkansas.

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
Momma ...... Cecilia Noble
LC ...... Sope Dirisu
Recruiter ...... John Lightbody

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

Maya returns to her grandmother in Arkansas.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

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Maya teams up with Poole for a new career in dancing, only it doesn't go to plan.

So when she meets LD, she mistakenly believes he's the man of her dreams.

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
RL Poole ...... Samuel Anderson
LD ...... Danny Sapani
Clara ...... Ayesha Antoine

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

Maya teams up with Poole for a new dancing career.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.

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Maya has turned to prostitution to help her boyfriend supposedly out of debt. "I felt my own innocence as real as a grain of sand between my teeth".

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
Bailey ...... Paapa Essiedu
LD ...... Danny Sapani
Clara ...... Ayesha Antoine
Troubadour Martin ...... Samuel Anderson

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Director: Pauline Harris.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.

Maya slips into the world of prostitution and narcotics.

Dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative and life-affirming autobiographies.