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.