Main content
This programme will be available shortly after broadcast

3. Mum's the Word

Episode 3 of 10

Twelve-year-old Meena faces racial abuse and hears some dramatic family news. Meera Syal reads her own novel. From 1996.

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 - surrounded by her loving, if slightly eccentric, Punjabi family. But then one day she meets Anita Rutter.....

Meena hears racial insults and is also shocked when she hears some big family news.

Actress and comedy writer Meera Syal reads her first novel - abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall.

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1996.

15 minutes

On radio

Thu 16 Apr 202615:45
BBC Radio 4 Extra

More episodes

Previous

2. One of the Gang?

Next

4. Ganesh

See all episodes from Anita and Me by Meera Syal

Broadcasts

  • Wed 3 Dec 200810:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Wed 3 Dec 200821:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Thu 4 Dec 200802:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Wed 11 Nov 200911:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Wed 11 Nov 200921:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Thu 12 Nov 200902:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Wed 17 Apr 201314:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 25 Mar 201514:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 26 Mar 201500:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 11 Jul 201814:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 12 Jul 201802:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 16 Apr 202615:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Thu 16 Apr 202621:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 17 Apr 202605:45
    BBC Radio 4 Extra