Meera Syal presents her own one-hour show playing songs that remind her of her favourite people, places and times, including music from AR Rahman, Hard Kaur and Anoushka Shankar. Before you take a ...

Meera Syal grew up in the mining village of Essington, in the West Midlands, a place she once famously described as "a cross between 'Twin Peaks' and 'Crossroads' ". Her work as a writer, in ...