16 Facts About Malcolm Brabant

Malcolm J Brabant was born on 1955 and is a freelance British journalist.

Malcolm Brabant trained with and worked for the BBC for more than 20 years, reporting from various locations.

Malcolm Brabant was born in 1955 in Willesden, in the London borough of Brent, and raised in and around the large town of Ipswich in Suffolk in the East of England.

Malcolm Brabant was educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys, a former state grammar school in Ipswich, from 1966 to 1973.

Malcolm Brabant started his journalistic career at the Ipswich Press Agency with Terry Lloyd.

Malcolm Brabant began broadcasting at Radio Orwell in Ipswich, and moved on to Independent Radio News in London from 1978 to 1982.

Malcolm Brabant subsequently worked for Central TV in Nottingham, Thames Television and BBC Radio Four's Today programme.

Malcolm Brabant led the orchestrated opposition, which resulted in him and other freelance journalists being allowed to sell the non-required pieces to other news organisations.

Hence in 2009, after BBC News bought Malcolm Brabant's written follow-up piece on the Danish cartoon controversy for their website, Malcolm Brabant sold the visual recording to other news organisations.

Malcolm Brabant worked for UNICEF, providing bespoke news reports on key issues which the organisation could use to highlight defined issues.

On 27 December 2016, PBS NewsHour broadcast a segment by Malcolm Brabant titled "Water to Power", in which Malcolm Brabant appeared to take seriously fantastic claims by Greek inventor Petros Zografos.

In 2011, Malcolm Brabant became seriously ill following a routine inoculation against yellow fever.

An adverse reaction led to three psychotic episodes, during which Malcolm Brabant spent more than three months in the intensive care units of psychiatric hospitals in three countries.

Malcolm Brabant was replaced for a time by the BBC's then-Balkans Correspondent, Mark Lowen, but eventually recovered and resumed his work for PBS.

In 2015 Brabant wrote a book entitled Malcolm is a Little Unwell about his illness and the profound effect it had on his career and family life.

Malcolm Brabant met the Danish journalist and author Trine Villemann in Sarajevo.