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All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

1962: Maya Angelou and her son move to Ghana when Guy is involved in a serious road accident. Memoir narrated by Adjoa Andoh.

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.

Omnibus of five parts dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator – Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner
Guy ...... Tristan Slowly
Julian Mayfield ...... Cyril Nri
Efua Sutherland ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 in January 2019.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 24 Jul 2023 01:50

Broadcasts

  • Sat 12 Jan 2019 13:00
  • Sun 13 Jan 2019 01:00
  • Sun 23 Jul 2023 07:50
  • Sun 23 Jul 2023 12:50
  • Sun 23 Jul 2023 18:50
  • Mon 24 Jul 2023 01:50