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1. Telling Fibs
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Meera Syal reads her own novel about mischievous 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.
She's surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family.
But then one day she meets Anita Rutter.....
Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal reads her first novel published in 1996.
Abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in April 1996.
Last on
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