The Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations Audiobook (Free)

Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou’s evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner

The books that define the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting bits of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they have huge variations from life-affirming to tragic, and again.

I Know Why the Caged Parrot Sings graphs Maya’s youth in the Deep South in the 1930s; while Gather Together In My Name recounts about The Maya Angelou Autobiographies: Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations 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 techniques to New York and becomes involved with civil rights. All God’s Kids Need Travelling Sneakers explores her time in Ghana during the 1960s, and in A Song Flung up to Heaven, she results to America to utilize Malcolm X and Martin Luther Ruler. When tragedy hits, her friend James Baldwin helps her out of her devastation – and fresh 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 family portrait of 20th hundred years black America.