Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers
Indira Varma reads from Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati background
Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 1
In August 1968 Babo, eldest son of Prem Kumar, becomes the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly to London to further his education.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 10
Bean's love affair with Javier has reached crisis point. Back in Anjar Grandmother Ba's days are coming to the end, but first she must be sure that Bean is safe.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 2
Babo and Sian's passionate relationship is blossoming. Then they bump into some old friends of Babo's parents and their secret is out.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 3
Sian has long had a dream to leave the village in North Wales where she was born. Now she's off to Madras, to marry an Indian man she has known for only six months.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 4
Sian and Babo make the long journey from Madras to North Wales for Christmas so that Babo can meet Sian's family. She tells Babo that she knows now where she wants to live.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 5
Babo and Sian are living happily in the house with orange and black gates. Now they have two young daughers, Mayuri and Bean. Then Sian hears bad news from Wales.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 6
When Sian goes back to Wales for her father's funeral, she begins to realise how much she misses the land of her birth.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 7
Indira Varma read from Tishani Doshi's novel. On the day of Indira Gandhi's assassination, Babo's mother, Trishala, is taken ill.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 8
By 1989 Babo's youngest daughter, Bean, is sweet sixteen and madly in love. Not that her parents know anything about it - yet.
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers - Episode 9
Now that her elder sister Mayuri is married, only Bean remains at home. But not for long, as her parents are about to discover.
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