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Contains language which some may find offensive.
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12-year-old Meena Kumar is an Asian girl living a fairly uneventful life in the Black Country village of Tollington near Wolverhampton in the 1970s. She's surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family. But then one day she meets Anita Rutter..... Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal reads her first novel published in 1996. Abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. Producer: Di Speirs First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.
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