Waheed Khan

Who is Waheed Khan?

Waheed Khan is a documentary television director working in British television.

Of Pakistani parentage he worked as an actor but switched careers while waiting for acting roles and becoming a camera operator worked on documentaries for BBC Current Affairs. He eventually directed and produced documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 of a public service nature on a variety of subjects.

Khan is a director of the ten part British Asian BBC 2 arts, culture, lifestyle and entertainment television magazine show Desi DNA. In September 2007 he began directing The Culture Show which is broadcast on BBC 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/

A project being concluded by Khan is a short film entitled Orange People, which concerns the dangers of obsessive suntanning. Two writing projects that Waheed is putting the final touches to include a theatre play, 'Easy As Pie' and a feature length screenplay, 'Terra Cotta Path'.