Episode 6
When Sian returns to Wales for her father's funeral, she realises that she misses the land of her birth. Read by Indira Varma.
Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses.
On a perfectly ordinary day in September 1981, while the children are dressing up and playing at being Lady Di, Sian gets word from Wales - her father has died. When she goes back to Tan y Rhos for the funeral, Sian begins to realise just how much she has left behind.
The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther. She previously played Suzie Costello in Torchwood.
Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis
Producer: Kate McAll.
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