Five tales of home and migration from the collection by Susmita Bhattacharya.
Table Manners
Good Golly Miss Molly
Mouli’s parrot has never impersonated her late husband, until now.
Reader: Chetna Pandya
Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf
Lata – from Mumbai and newly-wed – must adjust to her new life in Cardiff.
Reader: Aysha Kala
Letters Home
In Cardiff, Hassan practises his English by writing letters to his wife in Bangladesh.
Reader: Hareet Deol
In The Lap Of The Gods
At a Christian camp in India, two women explore more than religion.
Reader: Amber Rose Revah
Mango Season
A woman makes a discovery about her extraordinary great-grandmother’s past.
Reader: Aysha Kala
First Broadcast:
Monday - Friday, 27th-31st January 2020 at 6pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Production Credits:
Writer: Susmita Bhattacharya Broadcast Assistant: Sarah Tombling Sound Engineer: Jon Calver Producer: Jeremy Osborne Executive Producer: Karen Rose Music: Raga Malkauns by Vijay Ragav Rao, Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard, Flight by Anoushka Shankar, Oh My God by Kaiser Chiefs, The Sun Won’t Set by Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones and Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 “Moonlight’: I. Adagio Sostenuto by Evgeny Kissin