Timothy John Byford dies: Life dedicated to children

Timothy John Byford dies: Life dedicated to children

One learns best when one does what one loves, Timothy John Byford, a famous director used to say. He died in Belgrade yesterday at the age of 73 after coping with difficult illness.

He was born in the south of England in 1941. As a young director he came with a BBC team to Serbia in 1972 and stayed in our country.

 

He conquered the audience here and gave to our culture cult serial programs for children but also for adults - the 'Neven' ('Marigold'), 'Poletarac' ('Flapper'), 'Babino Unuce' (Grandma's grandson'), 'Metla bez drske' ('A Broom without a Stick') ... His work and life has been marked with dedication, love, learning and children...


‘I have dedicated all my life to children. I see that majority of us are wrong thinking that if we are not children, then we are adults’, he said in one of his public appearances, pointing out that adults can and should keep a child in themselves.

 

According to his words, playing is not a category that appears in programs for children only. He used to say that playing is the best way to learn.

 

‘The biggest mistake in education is that we are too serious. A wish for learning has to be stirred and that can be achieved through playing’.


Apart from directing he was also worked on translation and education. Timothy John Byford spent in Serbia almost half a century and almost forty years was living and working without a citizenship. When then Serbia President Boris Tadic read that fact in a newspaper, he gave Mr. Byford Serbian citizenship.



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