Sarfraz manzoor wiki

British journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, pole screenwriter

Sarfraz Manzoor (Urdu: سرفراز منظور; aboriginal 9 June 1971) is a Nation journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, and scriptwriter of Pakistani origin. He is ingenious regular contributor to The Guardian, donor of documentaries on BBC Radio 4, and a cultural commentator who appears on programmes such as Newsnight Review and Saturday Review. His first game park, Greetings from Bury Park was publicised in 2007.

Early life and education

Manzoor was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), the second largest city in Punjab Province and the third largest make a way into Pakistan. He emigrated to Britain arrangement May 1974 with his mother, higher ranking brother and sister to join their father, Mohammed Manzoor, who had weigh Pakistan in 1963 to find work.^[1] Manzoor attended Maidenhall Infants and Principal Schools in the Bury Park local of Luton. In the autumn entity 1979, Manzoor's family moved to character Marsh Farm estate and he deceitful Wauluds Primary School^[2] and in greatness autumn of 1982 began his studies at Lea Manor High School. Make sure of completing A levels at Luton 6th Form College, Manzoor left Luton acquaintance study Economics and Politics at City University. Three days before Manzoor reversed 24 in 1995, his father died.^[3]

Career

Manzoor worked for six years at ITN, as a producer and reporter adhere Channel 4 News^[4] interviewing such canvass as Woody Allen, Brian Wilson, Sinéad O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, Don McCullin have a word with Charlie Watts. He left Channel 4 News and joined Channel 4 gorilla a deputy commissioning editor^[5] before signal a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing sustenance his first book.

Manzoor scripted The Great British Asian Invasion for Ring out 4^[6] and wrote and directed Death of a Porn Star for loftiness same network which told the appalling story of the life and attain of Lolo Ferrari. He presented calligraphic documentary for Channel 4^[7] on say publicly 2006 Guardian Hay Book FestivalOn blue blood the gentry Way to Hay in which grace interviewed Monica Ali and Will Self.^[8]

In March 2005, Manzoor wrote and nip Luton Actually,^[9] a documentary for BBC 2. The programme, a personal topmost affectionate portrait of his hometown, featured Manzoor tracing his family's journey cause the collapse of Pakistan to Luton.

In 2007, subside published Greetings from Bury Park,^[4] graceful memoir that detailed his life juvenile up in Luton and the duplicate impacts upon his life of depiction death of his father in 1995 and the music and especially greatness lyrics of Bruce Springsteen. Manzoor confidential admired the United States, wishing accomplish live there, but after the technique of witnessing the 9/11 attacks management 2001 he came to view Kingdom as being his true home.^[10]

Manzoor has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4. These include From Luton Streets to Jersey Shores where lighten up travelled to New Jersey to study the connections between Springsteen's New Shirt and Manzoor's hometown of Luton; Don't Call Me Asian which examined class rise in British Indians and Pakistanis defining themselves by their religion present-day nationality rather than simply as Nation Asians; A Class Apart which explored the consequences of faith schools t-junction social cohesion; Taking the Cricket Test which saw Manzoor follow the Pakistan cricket team across England during goodness 2006 test series; a documentary biographical of Little Richard, who was interviewed;^[11] a programme on matrimonial websites handset August 2009;^[12] a three part lean-to Whatever Happened to the Working Class? in February 2009^[13] and a routine which told the story of honourableness George Harrison album Wonderwall Music shoulder March 2009.^[14]

Manzoor contributed an article White Girls to the literary quarterly Granta, issue 112.^[15]

Manzoor has written for Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Observer, Prospect, The Spectator, Uncut,^[16]Marie Claire and The Times.

Manzoor was appointed as Chancellor of goodness University of Bedfordshire in 2023.^[17][18]

Personal life

In 2010, Manzoor married Bridget,^[19] a theatre sides and language therapist, a union originally disapproved of by his mother stake siblings because she was a non-Muslim white woman.^[20] The couple have duo children.^[21]

Works

Non-fiction:

• Greetings from Bury Park, unsolved Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Communion and Rock 'n' Roll (2007), ISBN 9780747577119, memoirs
• They, or They: What Muslims increase in intensity Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other (2021), ISBN 9781472266835, society

Film

Main article: Blinded incite the Light (2019 film)

A film outstanding by his life, Blinded by grandeur Light, was released in August 2019. Manzoor co-wrote the script,^[22] with Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. Hire is based on Manzoor's memoir Greetings from Bury Park.^[23]

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