As a television producer he has worked in more than 40 countries and in the world's main war zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kosovo.
He worked as John Simpson's producer in Northern Iraq during the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003.
[3] In January 2008, Oggy Boytchev and John Simpson worked undercover in Harare, Zimbabwe in spite of a ban on the BBC by the regime of Robert Mugabe.
Boytchev produced and directed John Simpson's reports from Iran during the street riots in Tehran after the disputed presidential elections in June 2009.
[6] The Unbeliever, a work of historical fiction based on a real-life Cold War spy who sold secrets to the CIA,[2] was published in 2018.