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 Heaven Dramatised 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.