Luton Actually
The spotlight will be on growing up in Luton during a night of programmes on BBC2 looking at real life stories of Pakistanis living in Britain.
Luton Actually, written and presented by Sarfraz Manzoor, tells the tale of his own experience as a Pakistani Brit. He arrived in Luton in spring 1974 with family.
At that time, Luton was celebrated for two things - an airport that was the butt of national jokes and the Vauxhall factory which provided unskilled work for his father and many of the town’s immigrants.
“I was approached by the director to make the documentary,” explained Sarfraz who is a columnist for The Guardian as well as a writer and broadcaster. “I didn’t want to do it to begin with as I thought it would be something really obvious about Muslims, Pakistanis and Luton being really grim.
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- ISBN-10: 0747592942
- ISBN-13: 978-0747592945
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