Woman’s Hour | Anita and Me Omnibus: Episode 2
Based on Anita and Me by Meera Syal
Meera Syal concludes her novel about an Asian girl coping with the mix of British and Punjabi cultures in the Black Country.
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Licence: ERA Licence required
Content
- Type: Book Reading
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Duration: 1'04'36''
- Broadcast date: 1996
Usage
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
- Literary Resource
Other Archive resources
Anita & Me... and Me
Meera Syal journeys back to Essington in the Black Country - the mining village where she grew up. She describes how her childhood inspired the coming-of-age novel Anita and Me.
Woman's Hour | Anita and Me Omnibus
Meera Syal reads her own novel about 12-year-old Meena, growing up in a Black Country village in the 1970s.