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Radio 4 Extra,1 min

The Man With Two Names

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Shahid Iqbal (aka Richard Brown ) tells journalist Sangita Myska why he has two names, one for his personal life and one for business: "People would cancel contracts when they heard my name." As a child growing up in 1980s Britain, Sangita desperately wanted a name her white English friends could pronounce. Years of garbled pronunciations and awkward corrections later, she now believes those challenges have helped her forge her sense of identity.

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