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3. Mum's the Word
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Twelve-year-old Meena faces racial abuse and hears some dramatic family news. Meera Syal reads her own novel.
Meena hears racial insults - and is also shocked when she hears some big family news.
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.
She's surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family.
But then one day she met Anita Rutter.....
Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal continues her first novel.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.
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