Making Britain - From the Margins to the Mainstream - in pictures

Adil Ray, radio and television presenter and creator of the BBC's first British Asian sitcom, the forthcoming Citizen Khan, at Media City in Manchester Photograph: Tim Smith

Actor Shobna Gulati is known to millions as Sunita Alahan in the national institutution that is Coronation Street. She is also a regular face on other mainstream programmes including Stars in Their Eyes, Soapstar Superstar, MasterChef, Loose Women, Comic Relief, BBC Children In Need and Countdown
Photograph: Tim Smith

Shahid Malik, magician, at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds, where he has performed as part of the BBC's The Good Old Days. He began his career in the working men's clubs of northern England, and now performs magic and escapology in shows all over the world Photograph: Tim Smith

Saima Hussain at the Keighley Cougars rugby league ground in West Yorkshire. She made the record books as the first Asian woman to represent Great Britain at rugby, and has paved the way for other Muslim women to enter the sport Photograph: Tim Smith

Inder Goldfinger playing tabla at a sound studio in Harehills, Leeds. The percussionist and tabla player is considered one of the most accomplished Asian musicians in the UK, working with many classical Asian artists as well as leading figures in the jazz, pop and rock worlds, including Annie Lennox, Jah Wobble and Ian Brown Photograph: Tim Smith

Poet John Siddique at the Cow and Calf rocks above Ilkley. He has been a regular contributor to and former poet in residence at the Ilkley Literature Festival Photograph: Tim Smith

Mishal Husain, one of the leading faces of the BBC's World News service and a regular presenter of BBC News, at the BBC's Television Centre in west London
Photograph: Tim Smith

Judge Mushtaq Khokhar at Manchester crown court, where he sits on criminal cases and specialises in cases concerning fraud, drugs, money laundering, asset recovery and forfeiture
Photograph: Tim Smith

Shazia Mirza, comedian, sitting beneath the portraits of some of her childhood idols at the King's Head Theatre in London
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Shabana Kosar, a community fire safety officer in West Yorkshire, who was the service's only Muslim woman in a uniformed role when she first joined Photograph: Tim Smith

Madani Younis, newly appointed artistic director of the Bush Theatre in London, at Drummonds Mill in Bradford. This was the site of his final and acclaimed production for Bradford's Freedom Studios, The Mill - City of Dreams Photograph: Tim Smith

J Chuhan, outside Tate Liverpool, is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited internationally. She is professor of international art at Liverpool John Moores University Photograph: Tim Smith