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.
To introduce her 2002 film Anita and Me, Meera Syal journeys back to Essington in the Black Country - the mining village where she grew up. She describes how her childhood here inspired the coming-of-age novel Anita and Me, that Meera subsequently adapted into a film.
Meera opens up about how she was an outsider, with one foot in the Indian culture of her parents and the other in Essington's white, working-class community. She revisits the site of her old house - and discusses why she wrote Anita and Me: 'I wanted to record the lives of us - the first generation of British Asian kids born here'. Now, the story is part of the GCSE curriculum: 'that's monumental for me -we're here, we contributed.'.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Meera Syal |
| Director | Rob Hifle |
| Executive Producer | Sebastian Barfield |
| Executive Producer | John Durrant |
| Production Company | Academy 7 |
Broadcast
- Sat 25 Aug 2018 21:50
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