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5. Theft

Episode 5 of 10

12-year-old Meena's mother finally gives birth, and she decides to form a gang with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own novel.

When baby brother Sunil arrives home, there is a flurry of excitement.

Meena and Anita decide to form their own gang...

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.

2 days left to listen

15 minutes

Last on

Tue 21 Apr 2026 05:45
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