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Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers: Episode 6

The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 6

Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 6

Sian goes back to Wales for her father's funeral and realises how much she misses home.

When Sian returns to Wales for her father's funeral, she realises that she misses the land of her birth. Read by Indira Varma.

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses.   

On a perfectly ordinary day in September 1981, while the children are dressing up and playing at being Lady Di, Sian gets word from Wales - her father has died.  When she goes back to Tan y Rhos for the funeral, Sian begins to realise just how much she has left behind.  


The reader is Indira Varma.  Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther.  She previously played Suzie Costello in Torchwood.

Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis

Producer:  Kate McAll.

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Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses

Indira Varma reads from Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati background

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