Sarfraz Manzoor (Urdu: سرفراز منظور; born 9 June 1971) is a British journalist, documentary maker, broadcaster, and screenwriter of Pakistani origin.
[3] Manzoor worked for six years at ITN, as a producer and reporter on Channel 4 News[4] interviewing such figures as Woody Allen, Brian Wilson, Sinéad O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, Don McCullin and Charlie Watts.
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;[11] a programme on matrimonial websites in August 2009;[12] a three part series Whatever Happened to the Working Class?
[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.
[17][18] In 2010, Manzoor married Bridget,[19] a speech and language therapist, a union initially disapproved of by his mother and siblings because she was a non-Muslim white woman.