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Tough times for Meena, with a stay in hospital and major changes in her circle of friends. Meera Syal reads her own novel.
Tough times for Meena with a stay in hospital and major changes in her circle of friends
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 蘑菇短视频 Radio 4 in April 1996.
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