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1. Telling Fibs

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Meera Syal reads her own novel about mischievous 12-year-old Meena, growing up in a Black Country village in the 1970s.

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 91福利社 Radio 4 in April 1996.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Apr 2026 05:45
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