Citizen Khan star Adil Ray receives degree from Birmingham City University
Actor and broadcaster Adil Ray was awarded an honorary degree from Birmingham City University today.
Birmingham-born Adil is best known as the star and creator of the award-winning hit BBC One sitcom Citizen Khan. The show, set in the Birmingham suburb of Sparkhill, close to where Ray grew up, regularly attracts five million viewers in the UK and is broadcast worldwide.
He joined students graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham School of Acting, Birmingham School of Media and the Schools of Art and English during the ceremony.
He said: "Birmingham has been instrumental in my career and it remains, to me, the most important city in Britain's diverse landscape. My mother thinks I'm finally a doctor because of it, so thank you Birmingham City University."
