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10. Testing Times

Episode 10 of 10

On the eve of her 11-plus, the exam seems to be the least of Meena's worries. Meera Syal concludes her own novel.

On the eve of taking her 11-plus, the school exam seems to be the least of Meena's worries.....

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 concludes her first novel.

Abridged by Doreen Estall

Producer: Di Speirs

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996.

15 minutes

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