live there, but after the experience of witnessing the 9/11 attacks in 2001 he came to view Britain as being his true home. Manzoor has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4. These include From Luton Streets to Jersey Shores where he travelled to New Jersey to examine the connections between Springsteen's New Jersey and Manzoor's hometown of Luton; Don't Call Me Asian which examined the rise in British Indians and Pakistanis defining themselves by their religion and nationality rather than simply as British Asians; A Class Apart which explored the consequences of faith schools on social cohesion; Taking the Cricket Test which saw Manzoor follow the Pakistan cricket team across England during the 2006 test series; a documentary profile of Little Richard, who was interviewed; a programme on matrimonial websites in August 2009; a three part series Whatever Happened to the Working Class? in February 2009 and a programme which told the story of the George Harrison album Wonderwall Music in March 2009. Manzoor contributed an article White Girls to the literary quarterly Granta, issue 112. Manzoor has written for Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Observer, Prospect, The Spectator, Uncut, Marie Claire and The Times. Personal life In 2010, Manzoor married Bridget, a speech and language therapist, a union initially disapproved of by his mother and siblings because she was a non-Muslim white woman. The couple have two children. Works Non-fiction: Greetings from Bury Park, or Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock 'n' Roll (2007), , memoirs They, or They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other (2021), , society Film A film inspired by his life, Blinded by the Light, was released in August 2019. Manzoor co-wrote the script, with Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. It is based on Manzoor's memoir Greetings from Bury Park. References External links "Sarfraz Manzoor", BBC – Radio 4 People page 1971 births Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of the University of Salford British male journalists English people of Pakistani descent Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Pakistani male journalists People from Faisalabad