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4: Passion

Episode 4 of 10

Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s bighearted and hilarious new novel, following two very different families brought together by marriage. Today: passion and a banishment.

Meera Syal reads Monica Ali’s first new novel for a decade, a bighearted and hilarious story of two very different families brought together by marriage.

Yasmin Ghorami has a brilliant career in medicine, and is engaged to a charming junior doctor, Joe Sangster. But as their wedding approaches, and the two families are thrown together, they all find themselves confronting long-held and dark secrets.

Today: Yasmin finds passion, while tempers rise to boiling point in the Ghorami household....

Author: Monica Ali is the author of several novels including Brick Lane, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Reader: Meera Syal
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 19 May 2022 22:45

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  • Thu 19 May 2022 22:45