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Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Book at Bedtime: Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers: Episode 8

The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 8

Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 8

By 1989 Babo's youngest daughter, Bean, is sweet sixteen and madly in love.

By 1989, Babo's youngest daughter, Bean, is sweet 16 and madly in love. Not that her parents know yet. Read by Indira Varma.

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati 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.    

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati 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.     

It's 1989.  Babo and Sian's daughters are growing up fast.   Bean is sweet sixteen and in love, though her parents are completely unaware of it.  All that, however,  is about to change.  

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

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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