Sarfraz ManzoorSarfraz Manzoor

News and Events

  1. this Sunday august 15th

    I have an interview with the new Sec Gen of Amnesty International Salil Shetty that will run this Sunday in the Observer.

  2. saturday review 14 august 2010

    my final presenting gig at saturday review for the foreseeable future. among the items we talk about are the brilliant film The Secret in their Eyes and Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act. Radio 4 at 715pm.

  3. saturday review 7 August 2010

    I am presenting Saturday Review this evening at 7.15pm, Among the items we are talking about is the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz film Knight and Day.

  4. saturday review 31st July 2010

    the first of three Saturday Reviews that I am presenting is on Radio 4 this evening at 7.15pm. Among the guests is Paul Morley, Cahal Dallat and Kathryn Hughes and we are talking about the new biopic of Serge Gainsbourg.

  1. upcoming week starting July 26th 2010

    A busy week: I have a big feature in Education Guardian on Tuesday; my radio 4 documentary The Guaduate began on Monday on Radio 4; I should have a G2 feature about dogs this week, I am presenting Saturday Review on Radio 4 on Saturday and then I have a piece in The Observer on the Sunday.

     

     

  2. the graduate- forthcoming series on radio 4

    starting next Monday morning is a two part series I have written and presented for Radio 4 called The Graduate which follows 6 graduates from leaving university last summer through to today. we find out how they have fared in the real world and how graduating at such a grim economic time has affected their prospects. I am also writing an aricle for Education Guardian that will run next Tuesday and is inspired by the series.

  3. in the Observer today

    I have an article in the Observer today about a woman who was an Islamic radical but who changed her ways after 7/7. It is a compelling and I think rather hopeful story. The photograph of the woman that appears in the paper was also taken by me.

  4. slavoj zizek

    I am meeting Zizek next week for a videotaped conversation about his upcoming talk at the South Bank and his thoughts on the end of capitalism. It should be an engrossing and intense chat- I will let you know when it is due to be uploaded onto The Guardian.

  1. appearing soon.. in Granta magazine

    One of my long held ambitions has been to write for Granta magazine. Alongside the fabled New Yorker it is one of those places that anyone who cares about good writing aspires towards. Last week I was commissioned to write a feature for Granta for the autumn issue. I am pretty excited about that; I almost feel like a proper writer.

  2. saturday review 19th June 2010

    I am a panellist on Saturday Review next week- 715pm on Radio 4 and on Iplayer.

  3. upcoming- a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell

    For the third in my Guardian video series of conversations with leading writers and artists I recently met Malcolm Gladwell. He has just published a collection of New  Yorker writings and I met him to talk about that and a bunch of other things. The conversation is due to go online after the bank holiday in The Guardian.

  4. upcoming..in The Guardian and The Culture Show

    I recently went to New York to meet the team behind The Onion. You can watch my report on Thursday on BBC 2 at 7pm in The Culture Show. I diid the voice-over yesterday morning and saw the edited film and its really great so try to catch it if you can. Also in Monday's Media Guardian I have a spin-off article which is worth reading.