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  Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie was a key member of the performers in the cult BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again and sang daft songs of his own composition in most programmes.
Bill Oddie was the dominant member of the jovial and popular 1970s BBC television series The Goodies, in which he co-starred with two other cast-members of the radio series mentioned above.
Bill has now established a reputation for himself as an ornithologist and conservation activist, whereas fellow Goodies, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, continue careers in writing and acting.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bill_Oddie.html   (420 words)

  
 WORLDTWITCH - Bird Books by Bill Oddie
While Bill Oddie remains virtually unknown in America, he is the foremost birding celebrity in the UK, having appeared for many years in a popular television comedy show.
Subsequently Bill became a professional birding celebrity, traveling around the world to take part in bird races and appearing in a succession of BBC nature shows, currently Britain Goes Wild.
Bill Oddie has essentially followed the Golden format, presenting each of the birds most likely to be seen on a separate page with concise and conversational text and fine color illustrations by David Daly, Stephen Message and Clive Byers, depicting typical plumages and behavior.
www.worldtwitch.com /bill_oddie.htm   (518 words)

  
 Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie was born William Edgar Oddie in Rochdale on 7 July 1941, but was brought up in Birmingham by his father, an accountant.
Bill Oddie was one of the many talented comedians and broadcasters who were part of the Cambridge Footlights in their student days.
One of Bill Oddie's most notable TV successes was in the hugely popular 1970s and early '80s comedy The Goodies with Tim Brooke Taylor and Graeme Garden.
www.biogs.com /broadcasters/oddie.html   (285 words)

  
 Bill Oddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician.
Bill Oddie has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, on which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists.
Oddie is married to Laura Beaumont, with whom he has worked on a variety of projects for children, including film scripts, drama and comedy series, puppet shows and books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Oddie   (1667 words)

  
 Bill Oddie Biography
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, United Kingdom) is a comedy writer and performer, composer and musician.
Bill Oddie was a member of 1970s BBC TV trio The Goodies, in which he starred with ISIRTA colleagues Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor (also veterans of Cambridge Footlights).
On 16 October 2003, Bill Oddie was made an OBE for his service to Wildlife Conservation in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Oddie_Bill.html   (645 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie is well known as an ornithologist, conservationist and natural history presenter.
Bill Oddie was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1941, but was brought up in Birmingham.
Bill is an active conservationist and he publicly represents organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth, Fauna and Flora International, BirdLife International and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/programmes/who/bill_oddie.shtml   (318 words)

  
 The Observant Online News Source - Government Grants Emergency Powers to Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The virus - confirmed this morning to be the deadly H5N1 strain - was found in the body of a swan in the Fife area late yesterday evening, though experts are confident the bird would not have been the original carrier of the virus to the UK.
This is why Bird expert Oddie (65) was granted the emergency powers in the early hours of this morning, in the hope that his unrivalled knowledge of ornithology can help prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of British Citizens.
Oddie will continue to hold his new authority until such times as all threat of Avian Flu has passed.
www.theobservant.co.uk /content/view/31/36   (456 words)

  
 Bill Oddie - Moviefone
Bill Oddie has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I...
Bill Oddie explores the British countryside in a third series of Bill Oddie Goes Wild.
A biography of Bill Oddie, from his early career in the Cambridge footlights to how he got involved in wildlife programme making.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/bill-oddie/303205/main   (126 words)

  
 Springwatch with Bill Oddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Springwatch with Bill Oddie is a live BBC TV nature programme, presented by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King.
Oddie and Humble are based at a working farm near to Dartmoor in Devon, England (the same farm used for Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie), while King is mostly on location.
Oddie and Humble presented from the farm, while King was on the Shetland Islands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Springwatch_with_Bill_Oddie   (546 words)

  
 Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(Apart from the sex symbol bit.) In a parallel universe at this very moment VH-1 is dedicating a whole month of broadcasting to Bill Oddie, one of the great survivors of 60s rock and the man who brought the jazz-funk fusions of Miles Davis and Parliament to a mass audience.
The latter was subsequently recorded by Bill and most of The Grease Band (including Sunny) and released on John Peel's Dandelion label.
Oddie reckons he wrote more than a hundred songs for ISIRTA, but he had to wait for The Goodies' more mainstream appeal before he made the charts.
www.loadofold.com /boots/oddie.html   (369 words)

  
 Kayotix - music & multimedia solutions
Instantly recognisable by his characteristic greying facial hair, field-glasses and hiking gear, this gregarious and feisty beast is often to be found in the company of television cameras, producers and directors.
Explaining the mating habits of British fauna is a million miles away from Oddie's previous incarnation, as a member of the country's best-known comedy trio, the Goodies, and musical celebrator of another exotic animal, the Funky Gibbon.
Though he is dismissed by some as bumptious, Bill Oddie's sheer fascination with his subject has made him a formidable guide to Britain's wildlife, and his relaxed presenting style is effective because of, not despite, its very spontaneity.
www.kayotix.com /tmp/newsfeeds/24.06.05/billoddie   (899 words)

  
 Illustrated Guide to the Goodies Books: Bill's Birding books
Bill wrote a new introduction for the 1995 reissue.
Bill’s tales of his adventures in birdwatching in places such as Morocco, the Scilly Isles, Shetland, Ireland, India and Papua New Guinea.
From the back cover: “Here are over 60 of Bill Oddie’s tales of the ups, downs, highs, lows and thrills and spills of birding, from nefarious childhood ‘egging’ to fully fledged twitching – and much more besides.
mysite.verizon.net /vze7yes3/illustratedguides/books_bill.html   (596 words)

  
 Bill Oddie Goes Wild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oddie later admitted that his wetsuit was inflated as he has a fear of water.
Bill was always saying how the one bird he hasn't yet seen is a male Capercaillie, his 'bogey bird'.
For the last in the series, Bill visited the "last county before Scotland", which held memories for him as he walks past the house that used to be Monks House Bird Observatory (you can read about his experiences there in Bill Oddie's gone Birding).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Oddie_Goes_Wild   (1326 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book: Books: Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bill Oddie's Gripping Yarns: Tales of Birds and Birding (Miscellaneous) by Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie's Birds of Britain and Ireland by Bill Oddie
The two main categories are "birders" and "twitchers" though Bill does refer briefly to "ornithologists" and "dudes".
www.amazon.co.uk /Bill-Oddies-Little-Black-Bird/dp/0860519597   (893 words)

  
 Goodies, The - Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor
It's funny how the controller of BBC2 can allow repeats of "The Good Life" and "Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" (to name but two admittedly excellent comedies) to be shown over and over but her reasoning for not repeating "The Goodies" is that she doesn't want to air too many repeats.
But the good, nay utterly brilliant, news is that Messrs Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie themselves have bought the rights to their classic show and plan on releasing it on DVD and video.
Oddie, Garden and Brooke-Taylor shared a similar background and history to most of the Monty Python team.
www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/1001   (1476 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Bill Oddie Goes Wild
In 2003, Bill Oddie travelled the length of the country in search of the best of British wildlife for the third series of Bill Oddie Goes Wild.
Bill highlights what you should be looking for in eight different habitats found in the UK and shares his top tips for finding wildlife.
Explore the locations on the map to find out where Bill went, watch video clips and get tips on what to see and when to visit.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/programmes/tv/bill_oddie   (141 words)

  
 Bill Oddie : Comedian Profile
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician.
On a 2004 episode the BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are?, Oddie was invited to investigate his family history.
Oddie speculated that his mother would have felt that his grandmother (whom she lived with) was to blame for the death of her daughter and that this psychological trauma may well have contributed to her mental ill health.
www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/o/oddie-bill.htm   (621 words)

  
 Book Bill Oddie, Status Cymbol or Steve Garner through Performing Artistes
Bill Oddie is one of our leading environmentalists and one of the country's best-loved comedians with numerous radio and TV credits to his name.
Bill first made his name as a member of the original Goodies with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.
Bill Oddie was born in 1941 and was educated at Cambridge University with his contemporaries John Cleese, Sir David Frost and Eric Idle.
www.f4group.co.uk /month_03_2002.htm   (486 words)

  
 Green Issues: Birding with Bill Oddie
Bill was making a special one-off film on the wildlife of Patagonia (for transmission just after Christmas) and we (Fundación Patagonia Natural and the World Land Trust) were providing all the facilities.
Bill was able to see plenty of Guanaco, lots of Mara, wild Guinea Pigs, Armadillo and much more.
After a few days on the Estancia, I left Bill and the BBC team, to visit another NGO, in Paraguay (more of that another time), while they all went to the Valdes Peninsula.
www.worldlandtrust.org /news/2004/11/birding-with-bill-oddie.htm   (508 words)

  
 Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bill Oddie is a man of many parts - from star of all-time comedy favourite "The Goodies" to being one of Britain's best known and best-loved wildlife programme presenters.
His enthusiasm for the subject has made his programmes such as "Bill Oddie Goes Wild" a big hit with the public.
Bill wrote and appeared in a six part children's series called The Bubblegum Brigade for HTV.
www.nyt.co.uk /bill-oddie.htm   (464 words)

  
 BirdForum - A Bill Oddie Week
Whenever I see aposting from Euan and read his signature 'Bill Oddie is My Idol - I am always tempted to add a signature to my postings...
I will soon I tape anything with Bill on it I have all videos of his Goes Wild Series got a video of him in"Shooting Stars" and "Through The Keyhole" oh ye and a tape of him in his BIRDING series.
I still remember the shot in 'Oddie in Paradise' (filmed in Papua New Guinea) where Bill posed behind a very hairy caterpillar and it looked just like a moustache.
www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=5296   (634 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Bill Oddie - How To Watch Wildlife - Part 1: DVD: Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I watched this with my six year old daughter and we thought it was lovely to look at and contained alot of interesting information about British Wildlife.
My only reservation is that I wish Bill Oddie didn't think he was quite so funny nad I wish he wouldn't describe things (e.g.
Bill Oddie was a popular face on British TV screens in the 1970s, as one third of the very popular comedy trio, 'The Goodies';.
www.amazon.co.uk /Bill-Oddie-Watch-Wildlife-Part/dp/B000CC1OS8   (588 words)

  
 Bill Oddie, Book Guest Speaker Bill Oddie
He is currently working on Springwatch with Bill Oddie which will be on BBC televison in 2005.
Bill is an active conservationist and he publicly represents organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth, Fauna & Flora International, BirdLife International, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
Find out how to book Bill Oddie for your next event by calling TMC Speak Out on 0131 654 1000 or clicking here.
www.tmcentertainment.co.uk /speaker-index.html?speakerid=225   (413 words)

  
 Bill Oddie - UKGameshows
Born in 1941, William Edgar Oddie is best known as one third of seminal comedy act The Goodies alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.
He had met the other comedians at the Footlights while studying at Cambridge, and went on to appear in radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, which spawned the spoof panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, in which he occasionally appeared.
After The Goodies came to an end in the early 80s, Oddie spent a few years on tea-time infotainment show Fax.
www.ukgameshows.com /page/index.php/Bill_Oddie   (159 words)

  
 Death Before Death?
I looked forward to watching the series, and was even more excited when I saw another one of the regular cast members was familiar to me.
But I was totally unprepared for the shock I received when viewing the episodes and suddenly in one sketch the door opens and there is none other than.
This was a surprise, as I had no idea Bill Sadler had ever performed the part before Bogus Journey (the character of Death was completely established in the script before Bill Sadler had even been cast).
www.billandted.org /death.html   (661 words)

  
 Bill Oddie
A message from Bill Oddie, President of Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust:
Without any doubt at all, the majority of my fondest memories of early days birding were spent at observatories in various parts of Britain, and - equally certainly - it was at these places that I fully came to appreciate that there was far more to the study of birds than simply "ticking them off."
I have long been proud to be President of Sandwich Bay, and I am absolutely delighted to see and support these exciting new plans, which I am sure will make it an even more special place - both for birds and people.
www.sbbo.co.uk /oddie.htm   (251 words)

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