Series 2, Episode 6 : John Butler

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Rock star and activist John Butler is searching for his heritage hoping to find poets, musicians and revolutionaries. He traces the Butler name back through generations of hardship to a matriarch who sang for her survival. Then he follows his Bulgarian ancestry to the mountain town of Koprivshtitsa and to an ancestor caught up in a violent revolt, central to the birth of a nation.

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Episode 6 : John Butler
Sunday 01 November 2009, 7:30PM

John Butler started out busking on the streets. Now, he is a world-wide recording and performing phenomenon. He is an activist at heart...

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