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Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers: Episode 4

The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 4

Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

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

Sian and Babo fly to North Wales for Christmas. Sian decides where she wants to live.

Sian and Babo fly to North Wales for Christmas to meet her family. Sian decides where she wants to live. Read by Indira Varma.

Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati background.

Sian and Babo fly to North Wales to meet Sian's family. The young man from Madras will never forget his first impressions of the village of Nercwys and its matchbox houses. But now that they are married, where will they live - Wales, London or Madras? Sian tells Babo that she's come to a decision. 

The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she 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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