Simon Broughton - world music aficionado and committed Czechophile
30.10.2006 - 13:00
Simon Broughton is a leading British television director whose work includes a number of documentaries on music from around the world, shot in locations ranging from Portugal to Afghanistan. He is also editor of Songlines magazine, a leading British periodical devoted to world music as well as co-editor of the acclaimed Rough Guide to World Music. Broughton is actually a regular visitor to the Czech Republic and has made two documentaries on the music produced in the Terezin concentration camp during the Second World War. He first came to this country as a young student in 1978 to work on a nature reserve in Moravia.