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Meera Syal - Anita and Me

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Meera Syal reads her own novel about Meena, growing up in a 1970s Black Country village.

Meera Syal reads her own novel about 12-year-old Meena, growing up in a Black Country village in the 1970s.

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 - surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family. 

But then one days she meets Anita Rutter..

Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal reads her first novel - abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. 

Producer: Di Speirs 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996.

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Meera Syal's story about a young girl growing up in the Midlands during the 1970s

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