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Radio 4,07 Jan 2019,14 mins

SeriesAll God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

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Maya Angelou's Autobiographies

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After her son’s road accident, Maya’s helped by the kindness of Ghana’s famous poet and playwright Efua Sutherland. She’s also helped by ex-pat’s living close by, whom she names as the ‘revolutionary returnees’. As a group of Black Americans they are all hoping to assimilate into Ghanaian life, but it’s not quite as they expected. The fifth volume of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary memoirs. Dramatised in five parts by Patricia Cumper. Narrator – Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner Guy ...... Tristan Slowley Julian Mayfield ...... Cyril Nri Efua Sutherland ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo Director: Pauline Harris First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.

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