麻豆约拍

Author and poet Maya Angelou shares her castaway choices with Michael Parkinson.

Maya Angelou inherited her love of music from her grandmother, who used to sing to her as a child at the family home in the southern United States.

The first volume of her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was a bestseller, describing her life as singer, actress, stripper, dancer and writer.

Maya looks back on a remarkable career and chooses eight tracks she would take to the mythical island.

DISC ONE: How Great Thou Art - Mahalia Jackson
DISC TWO: A Quiet Place - Max Roach
DISC THREE: Killing Me Softly (With His Song) - Roberta Flack
DISC FOUR: I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
DISC FIVE: East Of The Sun - Sarah Vaughan
DISC SIX: One For The Road - Frank Sinatra
DISC SEVEN: Summertime - George Gershwin
DISC EIGHT: Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles

BOOK CHOICE: Negro Caravan - selected and edited by Sterling Brown, Arthur P Davis and Uylsses Lee
LUXURY CHOICE: The Kumasi Market painting by John T. Biggers
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: How Great Thou Art - Mahalia Jackson

Sir Michael Parkinson was the host of Desert Island Discs from 1986 - 1988.

Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley.

Producer: Ray Abbott

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in August 1987.

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