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8. Conflict

Episode 8 of 10

With Meena and Anita back on track, the girls begin to tackle the tricky subject of sex. Meera Syal reads her own novel.

With Meena and Anita back on track, the girls begin to tackle the tricky subject of sex...

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.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in April 1996.

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15 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Apr 2026 05:45

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