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Under the Skin

Resma Ruia

Lyndam Gregory

Deni Francis

Najma Khan

David Roper

Under the Skin: Episode 2: Another Life, by Resma Ruia

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Episode 2: Another Life, by Resma Ruia

Another Life, by Resma Ruia

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An Asian businessman visits Manchester on his way to America, but never leaves.

A 55-year-old businessman looks back on his unexpected life in Manchester. Read by Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan.

Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and across the United Kingdom. The relationship between the English language, its literary tradition and writers from South Asia has become an exciting and enduring part of British literary life. The Festival celebrates writers from South Asia and British Asian writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian writing in 2012. 

Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian writers. Resma Ruia's Another Life focuses on the restlessness of an Asian businessman who visited Manchester as a young man on his way to America - but never left. 

Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers.


Producer: David Roper
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