bSix BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warnerb pThe books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they run the gamut from life-affirming to tragic, and back again. piI Know Why the Caged Bird Singsi charts Maya's childhood in the Deep South in the 1930s while iGather Together In My Namei recounts her descent into prostitution and narcotics. iSingin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmasi sees her forging a career in showbusiness, and in iThe Heart of a Womani, she moves to New York and becomes involved in civil rights. iAll God's Children Need Travelling Shoesi explores her time in Ghana during the 1960s, and in iA Song Flung up to Heaveni, she returns to America to work with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. When tragedy strikes, her friend James Baldwin helps her out of