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Anita & Me – And Me
9.50PM, BBC2
‘I wanted to record our lives – the first generation of British Asian kids.’ To introduce the 2002 film (9.55pm) based on her semi-autobiographical book of the same name, Meera Syal returns to the mining village where she grew up, Essington in the Black Country, to reveal how her experiences inspired her.