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Shorts: The Time Being: How To Conduct a Rishta Meeting by Nafisa Muhtadi

How To Conduct a Rishta Meeting by Nafisa Muhtadi

The Time Being

BBC Radio 4 - Shorts, The Time Being, How To Conduct a Rishta Meeting by Nafisa Muhtadi

By Nafisa Muhtadi. A woman shares her considerable experience of Rishta meetings.

4 Extra Debut. A woman shares her considerable experience of Rishta meetings, having met too many potential husbands. Read by Sohm Kapila.

Season 8 of the showcase for previously un-broadcast writers. 

A woman shares her considerable experience of Rishta meetings, having by now met one or two potential husbands too many.

Sohm Kapila reads Nafisa Muhtadi's short story.  

Nafisa Muhtadi is a writer based in the Black Country. She is part of the current cohort of Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 Writers Development Scheme. She graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing (Distinction) at Birmingham City University.

Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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