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Meera Syal reads her own novel about 12-year-old Meena, growing up in a Black Country village in the 1970s.

12 year old Meena Kumar is an Asian girl living a fairly uneventful life in the Black Country village of Tollington near Wolverhampton in the 1970s - surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family.

But then one days she meets Anita Rutter..

Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal reads her first novel - abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996.

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 10 Jul 201802:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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