Main content
9. Robert
Episode 9 of 10
Tough times for Meena, with a stay in hospital and major changes in her circle of friends. Meera Syal reads her own novel.
Tough times for Meena with a stay in hospital and major changes in her circle of friends
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.
On radio
Tomorrow15:45
BBC Radio 4 Extra
More episodes
Previous
Broadcasts
Thu 11 Dec 200810:00BBC Radio 7- Thu 11 Dec 200821:00BBC Radio 7
- Fri 12 Dec 200802:00BBC Radio 7
- Thu 19 Nov 200911:00BBC Radio 7
- Thu 19 Nov 200921:00BBC Radio 7
- Fri 20 Nov 200902:00BBC Radio 7
- Thu 25 Apr 201314:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 2 Apr 201514:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 3 Apr 201500:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Thu 19 Jul 201814:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Fri 20 Jul 201802:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tomorrow15:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tomorrow21:45BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Saturday05:45BBC Radio 4 Extra