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It's a busy time for Meena with Diwali, the fair coming to town, then an ambulance. Meera Syal reads her own novel.

It's a busy time for Meena with Diwali, the fair coming to town, then an ambulance...

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 麻豆社 Radio 4 in April 1996.

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15 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Apr 2026 05:45
麻豆社 Radio 4 Extra

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