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Episode 3

Ayesha Hazerika and Anita Rani join Granny plus her great granddaughter and arch nemesis. Stars Meera Syal. From 2021.

Granny Kumar is back and chatting!

With guests, stand-up comedian Ayesha Hazerika and Countryfile presenter Anita Rani.

Left alone while her family are stuck in quarantine on a world cruise, Granny Kumar is hosting her own series, born out of frustration at seeing or hearing the same old parade of guests on chat shows (mainly male, pale and stale).

She wonders why no one interviews any of the sisters and asks them about their extraordinary, complex and uplifting stories.

So, Gossip and Goddesses has been born – Ummi Kumar gathers together her favourite inspirational women at Wembley Community Centre, aided by her millennial great granddaughter Maya and her arch nemesis “frenemy” Geeta, leader of the local Asian Ladies Silver Bats community group.

The show is a women-only party, where they share stories, laugh loads and chew the fat/dish the dirt/eat the biscuits…

A blend of sitcom, silliness and improvised chat, led by the best kind of interviewers who know how to make anyone talk - two really nosy old Indian women

Ummi Kumar ...... Meera Syal
Geeta Bhandari ...... Harvey Virdi
Maya Kumar ...... Ambreen Razia

Written by Meera Syal

Music by Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal

Producer: Liz Anstee

A CPL production for ѿý Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2021.

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  • Wed 24 Feb 2021 18:30
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