Britz (TV serial)

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Britz is a two-part drama serial written and directed by BAFTA-winning director Peter Kosminsky and first screened by Channel 4 in the UK in October and November 2007.

The story concerns two siblings, Sohail and Nasima Wahid (played by Riz Ahmed and Manjinder Virk), who are second-generation British Muslims who have been brought up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a city with a very large Pakistani Muslim population. Both are now students, Sohail studying law in London and Nasima studying medicine in Leeds. With new government anti-terrorism legislation being used against Muslims in the UK in the wake of the 911 attack in New York, Sohail and Nasima are drawn in radically different directions. Without telling any of his family or friends, Sohail becomes a member of MI5, while continuing his studies, in the belief that he hopes to help to stop terrorists before the situation deteriorates further. In doing so, he learns that a number of his neighbours and childhood friends are politically militant. Nasima - frustrated at her political protests not working - decides to become a suicide bomber. She then lets off the bomb in central London killing many others, herself and her brother.

Part one of the story is told from Sohail's point of view, while part two is from Nasima's point of view. The serial was filmed in London, Bradford and Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The DVD was released in the UK on November 5, 2007.