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.