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Meera Syal

January 06, 2023

Meera Syal CBE FRSL (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is a English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She became one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities.

Meera Syal

CBE FRSL
Syal at the 7th Asian Awards in 2017
Born
Feroza Syal

(1961-06-27) 27 June 1961 (age 61)
Wolverhampton, England
EducationQueen Mary's High School
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Occupation(s)Comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, actress
Years active1983–present
Spouses
  • Shekhar Bhatia
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1989; div. 2002)​
  • ​
    (m. 2005)​
Children2
Meera Syal's voice
from the BBC programme Front Row, 30 April 2013.[1]

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.[2][3] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama and literature.[4][5]

Early-life

Syal was born on 27 June 1961 in Wolverhampton and grew up in Essington, Staffordshire, a mining village a few miles to the north. Her Indian Punjabi parents; Surinder Syal (father) and Surinder Kaur Uppal (mother), came to the United Kingdom from New Delhi. Her father was Khatri and her mother was Jat.[6] When she was young, the family moved to Bloxwich, north of Walsall.

This landscape, and the family's status as the only Asian family in the small Midlands mining village of Essington, was later to form the backdrop to her novel (later filmed) Anita and Me, which Syal described in a 2003 BBC interview as semi-autobiographical.[7] She attended Queen Mary's High School in nearby Walsall and then studied English and Drama at Manchester University, graduating with a Double First.[8][9]

Acting and writing career

During her studies, Syal joined the Stephen Joseph Studio, acting and latterly writing stage plays. On graduation, she had secured a place to study for an MA in drama and psychotherapy at the University of Leeds, and then to study for a PGCE to teach. However, she had also co-written the one-woman play One of Us with Jackie Shapiro, in which Syal performed all fifteen parts, about a West Midlands-born ethnic Indian girl who ran away from home to become an actress. First performed at the Stephen Joseph Studio, she then performed it at the National Student Drama Festival where it won a prize to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival, where it also won a prize. As a result, a director from the Royal Court Theatre contacted Syal, and asked her to perform in a play at the Royal Court on a three-year contract.[10]

Syal wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach, directed by Gurinder Chadha, of Bend It Like Beckham fame. In 1996 she played Miss Chauhan, a high school soccer coach in the film Beautiful Thing. She was on the team that wrote and performed in the BBC comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me (1996–2001), originally on radio and then on television.[9] She was a scriptwriter on A.R. Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams[11] and she played the grandmother Sushila in the International Emmy-award-winning series The Kumars at No. 42, which ran for seven series,[12] reviving the character in 2021 for BBC Radio 4's Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar.

In October 2008, she starred in the BBC Two sitcom Beautiful People. This role, as Aunty Hayley, continued in 2009.[13] Syal starred in the eleventh series of Holby City as consultant Tara Sodi.[14] In 2009, she guest starred in Minder and starred in the film Mad, Sad & Bad.[15][16] In 2010, she played Shirley Valentine in a one-woman show at the Menier Chocolate Factory, later transferring to Trafalgar Studios.[17] In the same year she played Nasreen Chaudhry in two episodes of Doctor Who alongside Matt Smith.[18]

Other notable appearances

Syal is an occasional singer, having achieved a number one record with Gareth Gates and her co-stars from The Kumars at No. 42 with "Spirit in the Sky", the Comic Relief single.[19] She earlier (1988) provided vocals for a bhangra version of "Then He Kissed Me", composed by Biddu and with the Pakistani pop star Nazia Hassan, as part of the short-lived girl band Saffron.[9] In June 2003 she appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme with a selection of music by Nitin Sawhney, Madan Bala Sindhu, Joni Mitchell, Pizzicato Five, Sukhwinder Singh, Louis Armstrong and others. The luxury she chose to ease her life as a castaway was a piano.[20]

Having studied English at university and penned two novels and a variety of scripts and screenplays, Syal was chosen as one of the guests on "The Cultural Exchange" slot of Front Row on 30 April 2013, when she nominated To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as a piece of art work which she loved.[21]

As a journalist, she writes occasionally for The Guardian.[22]

Awards and recognition

Syal won the National Student Drama Award for performing in One of Us which was written by Jacqueline Shapiro while at university.[23] She won the Betty Trask Award for her first book Anita and Me and the Media Personality of the Year award at the Commission for Racial Equality's annual Race in the Media awards in 2000.[22] She was given the Nazia Hassan Foundation award in 2003.[24]

In 2011–12, Syal was appointed visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford.[9] She has an honorary degree from SOAS, University of London and from the University of Roehampton.[2][25]

She received her CBE from the Prince of Wales on 6 May 2015 at Buckingham Palace.[26][27] In 2017, Syal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[28][29]

Personal life

Syal married journalist Shekhar Bhatia in 1989; they had a daughter together before divorcing in 2002. In January 2005, Syal married her frequent collaborator, Sanjeev Bhaskar, who plays her grandson in The Kumars at No. 42; the marriage ceremony took place in Lichfield register office, Staffordshire.[30] They have a son, born in 2005.

In 2004, Syal took part in one episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, which investigated her family history.[31] Syal discovered that both her grandfathers were supporters of the Indian independence movement: one as a communist journalist, the other as a Punjab protester who was briefly imprisoned in the Golden Temple.[31]

In January 2011, Syal took part in the BBC Radio 4 programme My Teenage Diary, discussing growing up as the only British Asian girl in a small English town, feeling overweight and unattractive.[12]

Syal's brother is investigative journalist Rajeev Syal,[32] who covers Whitehall, writing stories for The Guardian.[32]

In February 2009, Syal was one of a number of British entertainers who signed an open letter printed in The Times protesting against the persecution of Baháʼís in Iran.[33]

Writing credits

Screenplays

Stage

  • One of Us (1983)
  • The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show (1992)
  • Goodness Gracious Me (1999)
  • Bombay Dreams (2002)

Radio

Television

Novels

  • Anita and Me (1996)
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999), published in German under the title Sari, Jeans und Chilischoten in 2003
  • The House of Hidden Mothers (2015)

Acting credits

Stage

Radio

  • True Believers (1990)
  • The World As We Know It (1999)
  • Double Income, No Kids Yet (2001)
  • A Small Town Murder (2008–2020)
  • Bindi Business (2017)
  • Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar (2021)

Film and TV

Academic reception

Her book Anita and Me has found its way onto school and university English syllabuses both in Britain and abroad. Scholarly literature on it includes:

  • Rocío G. Davis, "India in Britain: Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal's Anita and Me", in Fernando Galván & Mercedes Bengoechea (ed.), On Writing (and) Race in Contemporary Britain, Universidad de Alcalá 1999, 139–46.
  • Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce "Invisible Cities: Being and Creativity in Meera Syal's Anita and Me and Ben Okri's Astonishing the Gods", in Philip Laplace and Éric Tabuteau (eds), Cities on the Margin/ On the Margin of Cities: Representations of Urban Space in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2003: 113–30.
  • Graeme Dunphy, "Meena's Mockingbird: From Harper Lee to Meera Syal", in Neophilologus 88, 2004, 637–59.

References

  1. ^ "Meera Syal". Front Row. 30 April 2013. BBC Radio 4. from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b . Roehampton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  3. ^ "The 50 funniest people in Britain (part two) | Stage | The Observer". The Guardian. Theguardian.com. 7 December 2003. from the original on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  4. ^ "No. 61092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2014. p. N10.
  5. ^ 2015 New Year Honours List 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Meera Syal 3 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC
  7. ^ "Films – interview – Meera Syal". BBC. from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  8. ^ Roz Laws (10 January 2011). "Walsall comedian Meera Syal opens up her teenage diaries". Birmingham Mail. from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  9. ^ a b c d Jonathan Owen (6 May 2012). "Meera Syal: 'I didn't want to reach 50 and be full of regrets' – Profiles – People". The Independent. from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  10. ^ Interview with Meera Syal, The Two Shot Podcast, 28 May 2018
  11. ^ Inverne, James (17 June 2002). . TIME. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  12. ^ a b "BBC Radio 4 My Teenage Diary, 11 January 2011". Bbc.co.uk. 29 April 2012. from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  13. ^ Rushton, Katherine (6 May 2008). "New BBC sitcom for Meera Syal | News | Broadcast". Broadcastnow.co.uk. from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  14. ^ "Meera Syal to join Holby City as a moody doc – 3am & Mirror Online". Mirror.co.uk. 13 March 2009. from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  15. ^ jno. . Minder.org. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  16. ^ Philip French (August 2009). "Mad, Sad & Bad | Film review". The Observer. theguardian.com. from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  17. ^ Kate Kellaway (10 July 2010). "Meera Syal: Interview". The Observer. theguardian.com. from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  18. ^ "Doctor Who The Hungry Earth Interview Meera Syal". Sfx.co.uk. 17 May 2010. from the original on 21 May 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  19. ^ "Press Office – The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Meera Syal". BBC. from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  20. ^ "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Meera Syal". BBC. 1 June 2003. from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  21. ^ "BBC Radio 4 – Front Row's Cultural Exchange – Meera Syal". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  22. ^ a b British Council. . Literature.britishcouncil.org. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  23. ^ Chris Jones (14 March 2003). "In Depth | Newsmakers | Meera, Meera off the wall". BBC News. from the original on 7 March 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  24. ^ "Asians in Media magazine | Meera Syal and others awarded at Nazia Hassan foundation launch". Asiansinmedia.org. 16 October 2003. from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  25. ^ "Ms Meera Syal MBE – Honorary Doctorate of SOAS, University of London". Soas.ac.uk. from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  26. ^ "Meera Syal says CBE is a 'huge honour'". The Northern Echo. 6 May 2015. from the original on 1 January 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  27. ^ "Meera Syal to be made a CBE at Buckingham Palace today". ITV. 6 May 2015. from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  28. ^ Natasha Onwuemezi, "Rankin, McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows" 26 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, The Bookseller, 7 June 2017.
  29. ^ "Current RSL Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  30. ^ "Entertainment | Family wedding for Kumars stars". BBC News. 25 January 2005. from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  31. ^ a b "Who Do You Think You Are? with Meera Syal". Who Do You Think You Are?. 7 December 2004. BBC. BBC Two. from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  32. ^ a b Nick McGrath (8 October 2010). "Meera Syal: My family values | Life and style". The Guardian. from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  33. ^ "Voices of support". Bahá'í World News Service. from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  34. ^ "Radio Times Hunted Cast List". Radiotimes.com. from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2013.

External links

  • Meera Syal at IMDb
  • British Council: Meera Syal
  • , BAFTA webcast, March 2008

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Meera Syal CBE FRSL born Feroza Syal 27 June 1961 is a English comedian writer playwright singer journalist and actress She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and portraying Sanjeev s grandmother Ummi in The Kumars at No 42 She became one of the UK s best known Asian personalities Meera SyalCBE FRSLSyal at the 7th Asian Awards in 2017BornFeroza Syal 1961 06 27 27 June 1961 age 61 Wolverhampton EnglandEducationQueen Mary s High SchoolAlma materUniversity of ManchesterOccupation s Comedian writer playwright singer journalist actressYears active1983 presentSpousesShekhar Bhatia m 1989 div 2002 wbr Sanjeev Bhaskar m 2005 wbr Children2Meera Syal s voice source source source from the BBC programme Front Row 30 April 2013 1 She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE in the 1997 New Year Honours and in 2003 was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy 2 3 She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama and literature 4 5 Contents 1 Early life 2 Acting and writing career 3 Other notable appearances 4 Awards and recognition 5 Personal life 6 Writing credits 6 1 Screenplays 6 2 Stage 6 3 Radio 6 4 Television 6 5 Novels 7 Acting credits 7 1 Stage 7 2 Radio 7 3 Film and TV 8 Academic reception 9 References 10 External linksEarly life EditSyal was born on 27 June 1961 in Wolverhampton and grew up in Essington Staffordshire a mining village a few miles to the north Her Indian Punjabi parents Surinder Syal father and Surinder Kaur Uppal mother came to the United Kingdom from New Delhi Her father was Khatri and her mother was Jat 6 When she was young the family moved to Bloxwich north of Walsall This landscape and the family s status as the only Asian family in the small Midlands mining village of Essington was later to form the backdrop to her novel later filmed Anita and Me which Syal described in a 2003 BBC interview as semi autobiographical 7 She attended Queen Mary s High School in nearby Walsall and then studied English and Drama at Manchester University graduating with a Double First 8 9 Acting and writing career EditDuring her studies Syal joined the Stephen Joseph Studio acting and latterly writing stage plays On graduation she had secured a place to study for an MA in drama and psychotherapy at the University of Leeds and then to study for a PGCE to teach However she had also co written the one woman play One of Us with Jackie Shapiro in which Syal performed all fifteen parts about a West Midlands born ethnic Indian girl who ran away from home to become an actress First performed at the Stephen Joseph Studio she then performed it at the National Student Drama Festival where it won a prize to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival where it also won a prize As a result a director from the Royal Court Theatre contacted Syal and asked her to perform in a play at the Royal Court on a three year contract 10 Syal wrote the screenplay for the 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham fame In 1996 she played Miss Chauhan a high school soccer coach in the film Beautiful Thing She was on the team that wrote and performed in the BBC comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me 1996 2001 originally on radio and then on television 9 She was a scriptwriter on A R Rahman and Andrew Lloyd Webber s Bombay Dreams 11 and she played the grandmother Sushila in the International Emmy award winning series The Kumars at No 42 which ran for seven series 12 reviving the character in 2021 for BBC Radio 4 s Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar In October 2008 she starred in the BBC Two sitcom Beautiful People This role as Aunty Hayley continued in 2009 13 Syal starred in the eleventh series of Holby City as consultant Tara Sodi 14 In 2009 she guest starred in Minder and starred in the film Mad Sad amp Bad 15 16 In 2010 she played Shirley Valentine in a one woman show at the Menier Chocolate Factory later transferring to Trafalgar Studios 17 In the same year she played Nasreen Chaudhry in two episodes of Doctor Who alongside Matt Smith 18 Other notable appearances EditSyal is an occasional singer having achieved a number one record with Gareth Gates and her co stars from The Kumars at No 42 with Spirit in the Sky the Comic Relief single 19 She earlier 1988 provided vocals for a bhangra version of Then He Kissed Me composed by Biddu and with the Pakistani pop star Nazia Hassan as part of the short lived girl band Saffron 9 In June 2003 she appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4 s Desert Island Discs programme with a selection of music by Nitin Sawhney Madan Bala Sindhu Joni Mitchell Pizzicato Five Sukhwinder Singh Louis Armstrong and others The luxury she chose to ease her life as a castaway was a piano 20 Having studied English at university and penned two novels and a variety of scripts and screenplays Syal was chosen as one of the guests on The Cultural Exchange slot of Front Row on 30 April 2013 when she nominated To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as a piece of art work which she loved 21 As a journalist she writes occasionally for The Guardian 22 Awards and recognition EditSyal won the National Student Drama Award for performing in One of Us which was written by Jacqueline Shapiro while at university 23 She won the Betty Trask Award for her first book Anita and Me and the Media Personality of the Year award at the Commission for Racial Equality s annual Race in the Media awards in 2000 22 She was given the Nazia Hassan Foundation award in 2003 24 In 2011 12 Syal was appointed visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine s College Oxford 9 She has an honorary degree from SOAS University of London and from the University of Roehampton 2 25 She received her CBE from the Prince of Wales on 6 May 2015 at Buckingham Palace 26 27 In 2017 Syal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 28 29 Personal life EditSyal married journalist Shekhar Bhatia in 1989 they had a daughter together before divorcing in 2002 In January 2005 Syal married her frequent collaborator Sanjeev Bhaskar who plays her grandson in The Kumars at No 42 the marriage ceremony took place in Lichfield register office Staffordshire 30 They have a son born in 2005 In 2004 Syal took part in one episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are which investigated her family history 31 Syal discovered that both her grandfathers were supporters of the Indian independence movement one as a communist journalist the other as a Punjab protester who was briefly imprisoned in the Golden Temple 31 In January 2011 Syal took part in the BBC Radio 4 programme My Teenage Diary discussing growing up as the only British Asian girl in a small English town feeling overweight and unattractive 12 Syal s brother is investigative journalist Rajeev Syal 32 who covers Whitehall writing stories for The Guardian 32 In February 2009 Syal was one of a number of British entertainers who signed an open letter printed in The Times protesting against the persecution of Bahaʼis in Iran 33 Writing credits EditScreenplays Edit Bhaji on the Beach 1993 Anita and Me 2002 Stage Edit One of Us 1983 The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show 1992 Goodness Gracious Me 1999 Bombay Dreams 2002 Radio Edit Goodness Gracious Me 1996 98 Masala FM 1996 Television Edit Tandoori Nights 1985 Black Silk 1985 The Real McCoy 1991 My Sister Wife 1994 Goodness Gracious Me 1998 Life Isn t All Ha Ha Hee Hee 2005 Uncle Santa UK Little Crackers TV series 2010 Novels Edit Anita and Me 1996 Life Isn t All Ha Ha Hee Hee 1999 published in German under the title Sari Jeans und Chilischoten in 2003 The House of Hidden Mothers 2015 Acting credits EditStage Edit One of Us 1983 Serious Money 1987 Peer Gynt 1990 The Oppressed Minorities Big Fun Show 1992 The Vagina Monologues 2001 Bombay Dreams 2004 Rafta Rafta 2007 Shirley Valentine 2010 The Killing of Sister George 2011 Much Ado About Nothing 2012 as Beatrice Behind the Beautiful Forevers 2014 as Zehrunisa Romeo and Juliet 2016 as Nurse Annie 2017 as Miss Hannigan Noises Off 2019 as Dotty OtleyRadio Edit True Believers 1990 The World As We Know It 1999 Double Income No Kids Yet 2001 A Small Town Murder 2008 2020 Bindi Business 2017 Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar 2021 Film and TV Edit Majdhar 1983 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3 4 1985 A Little Princess 1986 Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 1987 The Real McCoy 1991 Gummed Labels 1992 Taggart 1992 Sean s Show 1993 The Brain Drain 1993 Absolutely Fabulous 1994 New Best Friend 1994 Flight 1995 Degrees of Error 1995 Band of Gold 1995 It s Not Unusual 1995 Drop The Dead Donkey 1996 A Nice Arrangement 1996 Beautiful Thing 1996 Marsala FM 1996 Crossing The Floor 1996 Ruby 1997 Sixth Happiness 1997 The Book Quiz 1998 No Crying He Makes 1998 Keeping Mum 1998 Legal Affairs 1998 The World As We Know It 1999 The Strangerers 2000 Forgive and Forget 2000 Anita and Me 2002 Bad Girls 2004 Season 6 Episode 4 Life Isn t All Ha Ha Hee Hee 2005 Murder Investigation Team 2005 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard 2006 Jekyll 2007 Kingdom 2007 Jhoom Barabar Jhoom 2007 When Were We Funniest 2008 Beautiful People 2008 09 Holby City 2009 Desert Flower 2009 Minder 2009 Horrible Histories 2009 Doctor Who The Hungry Earth 2010 and Cold Blood 2010 Tinga Tinga Tales 2010 Voice of Owl The Jury 2011 Hunted 2 Episodes 2012 34 Bollywood Carmen Live 2013 Absolutely Anything 2015 The Brink 2015 Broadchurch 2015 Alice Through the Looking Glass 2016 Doctor Strange 2016 Riviera 2017 Paddington 2 2017 The Split 2018 2022 To Provide All People 2018 Patrick 2018 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 2018 Nativity Rocks 2018 Yesterday 2019 Dragon Rider 2020 Kate amp Koji 2020 Spin 2021 The Wheel of Time 2021 Code 404 2021 Back to Life TV series 2021 Roar 2022 The Sandman 2022 The Almond and the Seahorse 2022 The Devil s Hour 2022 Academic reception EditHer book Anita and Me has found its way onto school and university English syllabuses both in Britain and abroad Scholarly literature on it includes Rocio G Davis India in Britain Myths of Childhood in Meera Syal s Anita and Me in Fernando Galvan amp Mercedes Bengoechea ed On Writing and Race in Contemporary Britain Universidad de Alcala 1999 139 46 Ana Maria Sanchez Arce Invisible Cities Being and Creativity in Meera Syal s Anita and Me and Ben Okri s Astonishing the Gods in Philip Laplace and Eric Tabuteau eds Cities on the Margin On the Margin of Cities Representations of Urban Space in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction Besancon Presses Universitaires Franc Comtoises 2003 113 30 Graeme Dunphy Meena s Mockingbird From Harper Lee to Meera Syal in Neophilologus 88 2004 637 59 References Edit Meera Syal Front Row 30 April 2013 BBC Radio 4 Archived from the original on 19 October 2019 Retrieved 18 January 2014 a b University of Roehampton Honorary Degrees Roehampton ac uk Archived from the original on 28 June 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 The 50 funniest people in Britain part two Stage The Observer The Guardian Theguardian com 7 December 2003 Archived from the original on 2 May 2019 Retrieved 23 August 2013 No 61092 The London Gazette Supplement 31 December 2014 p N10 2015 New Year Honours List Archived 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Meera Syal Archived 3 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine Who Do You Think You Are BBC Films interview Meera Syal BBC Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Roz Laws 10 January 2011 Walsall comedian Meera Syal opens up her teenage diaries Birmingham Mail Archived from the original on 17 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 a b c d Jonathan Owen 6 May 2012 Meera Syal I didn t want to reach 50 and be full of regrets Profiles People The Independent Archived from the original on 9 January 2014 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Interview with Meera Syal The Two Shot Podcast 28 May 2018 Inverne James 17 June 2002 Welcome to Bollywood TIME Archived from the original on 24 August 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 a b BBC Radio 4 My Teenage Diary 11 January 2011 Bbc co uk 29 April 2012 Archived from the original on 12 July 2012 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Rushton Katherine 6 May 2008 New BBC sitcom for Meera Syal News Broadcast Broadcastnow co uk Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Meera Syal to join Holby City as a moody doc 3am amp Mirror Online Mirror co uk 13 March 2009 Archived from the original on 9 May 2014 Retrieved 23 August 2013 jno Series 11 Minder org Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Philip French August 2009 Mad Sad amp Bad Film review The Observer theguardian com Archived from the original on 10 February 2015 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Kate Kellaway 10 July 2010 Meera Syal Interview The Observer theguardian com Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Doctor Who The Hungry Earth Interview Meera Syal Sfx co uk 17 May 2010 Archived from the original on 21 May 2010 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Press Office The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Meera Syal BBC Archived from the original on 16 October 2018 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Desert Island Discs Castaway Meera Syal BBC 1 June 2003 Archived from the original on 17 May 2009 Retrieved 23 August 2013 BBC Radio 4 Front Row s Cultural Exchange Meera Syal Bbc co uk Retrieved 23 August 2013 a b British Council Meera Syal British Council Literature Literature britishcouncil org Archived from the original on 8 July 2015 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Chris Jones 14 March 2003 In Depth Newsmakers Meera Meera off the wall BBC News Archived from the original on 7 March 2006 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Asians in Media magazine Meera Syal and others awarded at Nazia Hassan foundation launch Asiansinmedia org 16 October 2003 Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Ms Meera Syal MBE Honorary Doctorate of SOAS University of London Soas ac uk Archived from the original on 14 September 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Meera Syal says CBE is a huge honour The Northern Echo 6 May 2015 Archived from the original on 1 January 2019 Retrieved 31 December 2018 Meera Syal to be made a CBE at Buckingham Palace today ITV 6 May 2015 Archived from the original on 20 July 2015 Retrieved 31 December 2015 Natasha Onwuemezi Rankin McDermid and Levy named new RSL fellows Archived 26 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Bookseller 7 June 2017 Current RSL Fellows Royal Society of Literature Archived from the original on 6 February 2019 Retrieved 11 June 2017 Entertainment Family wedding for Kumars stars BBC News 25 January 2005 Archived from the original on 9 June 2020 Retrieved 23 August 2013 a b Who Do You Think You Are with Meera Syal Who Do You Think You Are 7 December 2004 BBC BBC Two Archived from the original on 18 August 2020 Retrieved 23 December 2019 a b Nick McGrath 8 October 2010 Meera Syal My family values Life and style The Guardian Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Voices of support Baha i World News Service Archived from the original on 7 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 Radio Times Hunted Cast List Radiotimes com Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 Retrieved 23 August 2013 External links EditMeera Syal at IMDb British Council Meera Syal In Conversation with Meera Syal BAFTA webcast March 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Meera Syal amp oldid 1121572534, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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