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Radio 4 Extra,15 Apr 1996,15 mins

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When baby brother Sunil arrives home, there is a flurry of excitement. Meena and Anita decide to form their own gang... 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 met Anita Rutter..... Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal continues her first novel. Abridged by Doreen Estall. Producer: Di Speirs First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.

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