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This Week's Guest:
Meera Syal
Sunday 1 June
Repeated
Friday 6 June | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the actor and writer Meera Syal.
She was born in the sixties after her parents had immigrated here from the Punjab and brought up in Essington, a Staffordshire mining village five miles north east of Wolverhampton. She studied English and Drama at Manchester University.
Her one woman show ‘One of Us’ went to the Edinburgh Festival where
she was spotted by a director from the Royal Court Theatre in London and offered an immediate equity card. Meera gave up her academic plans and moved to London to act in the theatre .
She wrote and starred in ‘My Sister Wife' for BBC2 and moved on to write and perform in the popular Goodness GraciousMe and to play the flirtatious granny in the 'Kumars at Number 42' . She has written the script for the London musical ‘Bombay Dreams’ which will be going to Broadway.
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1. 'Sunset'
Performer Nitin Sawhney
Composer Nitin Sawhney
Publisher Zomba music
CD Title Prophesy
Track 1
Label V2
Rec No VVR 1015912
2. 'Medndi/Madhorama Pencha'
Performer Madan Bala Sindhu
Composer Mychael Danna
Publisher Mirabi films
CD Title Monsoon Wedding - original film soundtrack
Track 8
Label Milan
Rec No 74321 89824-2
3. 'Young, Gifted and Black'
Performer Bob and Marcia
Composer Irvine/Simone
Publisher Copyright Control
CD Title Young Gifted and Black/My Cherie Amour
Track 1
Label Escort
Rec No ES 824
4. 'A Case of You'
Performer Joni Mitchell
Composer Joni Mitchell
Publisher Reprise Records
CD Title Blue
Track 5
Label Reprise
Rec No K 244128
5. 'Waterloo Sunset'
Performer Kinks
Composer R Davies
Publisher PRT Records
CD Title 25 Years of Rock and Roll - 1967
Track 4
Label Connoisseur Collection
Rec No YRNR CD 67
6. 'Twiggy, Twiggy'
Performer Pizzicato Five
Composer Satoh, nanako
Publisher n/a
CD Title Made in the USA
Track 6
Label Matador
Rec No OLE 099-2
7. 'The Wedding Qawwali'
Performer Sukhwinder Singh
Composer A H Rahman
Publisher The Really Useful Group
CD Title Bombay Dreams
Track 18
Label Citrus
Rec No 5084352
8. 'Fantastic , That's You'
Performer Louis Armstrong
Composer Cates/Thiele Green
Publisher MCA Records
CD Title What a Wonderful World
Track 9
Label MCA
Rec No DMCL 1876
Record: Young, Gifted and Black
(instead of the Bible) - Bhagvadgita - ancient Hindu text
Meera's own book choice: Hindi/English dictionary
Luxury: A piano
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