3. Mum's the Word

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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.