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7. Grandmother

Episode 7 of 10

Meena is called on to help with baby Sunil and sets about healing the rift with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own novel.

Meena is called on to help with baby Sunil and sets about healing the rift with Anita.

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.

4 days left to listen

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 23 Apr 2026 05:45
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