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  Bill Oddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, BA, MA (Cantab.), born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale (at the time, part of Lancashire), is a comedy writer and performer, author, and talented composer and musician.
Oddie speculated that his mother would have felt that his grandmother (with whom she lived) was to blame for the death of her daughter and that this psychological trauma may well have contributed to her mental ill health.
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.
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 Bill Oddie - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Oddie was raised primarily by his father as his mother was placed into long term psychiatric care suffering with bipolar disorder.
Oddie makes the reasonable speculation that his mother would have felt his grandmother (whom she lived with) was to blame for the death of her daughter.
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).
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Bill_Oddie   (925 words)

  
 Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie was a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday – Thursday, from 2004-05-31–2004-06-17.
Following on from the previous year's Wild In Your Garden, presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King spent one hour each evening, describing wildlife and presenting live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, as well as a badger sett.
Oddie presented an update of some of the featured animals later in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Britain_Goes_Wild_with_Bill_Oddie   (227 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie
Britain Goes Wild for the birds and the bees
Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie has been the surprise hit of the season with nightly audiences of 3 million.
Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie ran for three weeks on BBC TWO from 31 May 2004.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/06_june/23/wild.shtml   (758 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.
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 Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, MA (Cantab.) (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 (alsoveterans of Cambridge Footlights).
It also created a run on nest boxes for wild birds and bumble bees, bird baths and bird feed from suppliers, likened to the Delia power phenomenon created when Delia Smith mentioned the tools and ingredients she was using on her cookingprogramme Delia's How to Cook.
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 Wild In Your Garden - TheBestLinks.com - BBC, Bill Oddie, England, Television, ...
Wild In Your Garden was a live BBC TV show, broadcast in 2003.
Presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble (both in a suburban garden in Bristol, England) and Simon King (mostly on location nearby) presented live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, badger setts and the like.
A sequel, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie, was broadcast in 2004.
www.thebestlinks.com /Wild_In_Your_Garden.html   (130 words)

  
 Bill Oddie - InformationBlast
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie (born July 7, 1941) is a British comedian, singer, television presenter and ornithologist.
Oddie was a member of the jovial and popular 1970s BBC TV trio The Goodies, in which he starred with Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
In his TV wilfdlife programmes, Bill exudes a genuine enthusiasm for the splendours of bird life and brings a directness and humanity to the documentary genre rarely seen since the days of Animal Magic.
www.informationblast.com /Bill_Oddie.html   (452 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | BBC launches UK wildlife campaign
Bill Oddie will host three weeks of live broadcasts on the state of British wildlife as part of the BBC's Make Space For Nature Campaign.
Oddie and co-presenter Kate Humble will be based at an organic farm in Devon which is equipped with over 100 hidden cameras in nest boxes, trees, bushes and badger setts.
Britain Goes Wild With Bill Oddie starts on Monday 31 May at 2000 BST on BBC One.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3757135.stm   (527 words)

  
 Independent on Sunday, The: The IoS Profile: Bill Oddie - The twitchfinder general
Famously, Oddie is one of just three subjects to have turned down Michael Aspel's This is Your Life red book, and he has often eschewed the traditional conventions of luvvie-ish celeb behaviour.
Oddie is a committed conservationist and environmentalist, say the wildlife and ornithological charities to which he lends his name.
It goes without saying that they would rather have the more charismatic Sir David Attenborough as a patron or spokesman, but it is Oddie's common touch, rather than an encylopaedic knowledge, that they particularly value.
www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_200406/ai_n12756679   (457 words)

  
 Britain, ancient - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Britain, ancient   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was succeeded in central southern Britain by the Early Bronze Age Wessex culture, with strong trade links across Europe.
At the end of the last Ice Age, Britain had a cave-dwelling population of Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, whose culture was called Creswellian, after Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, where remains of flint tools were found.
Later invaders were the Celts, a warrior aristocracy with an Iron Age technology; they introduced horse-drawn chariots, had their own distinctive art forms (see Celtic art), and occupied fortified hilltops.
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 Bill Oddie, Book Guest Speaker 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 & Flora International, BirdLife International, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
www.tmcentertainment.co.uk /speaker-index.html?speakerid=225   (419 words)

  
 Bill_Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
'''William Edgar (Bill) Oddie''', OBE, MA (Cantab.) (born on July 7, 1941 in Rochdale (which was, at the time, part of Lancashire) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician.
Oddie co-wrote many of the episodes of the television comedy series ''Doctor in the House'' with Graeme Garden.
In 2001, Oddie became only the third person to turn down the "red book" and decline to appear on This Is Your Life.
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 screenonline: Oddie, Bill (1941-) Biography
Throughout the 1970s, Bill Oddie was known as the hairy, cynical, anarchist member of
Oddie's songs turned The Goodies into pop stars with four top twenty hits including 'Black Pudding Bertha' and the classic 'Funky Gibbon', described by Oddie as sounding like Parliament on a bad day.
From the moment he discovered a bird's egg as a child he became an avid bird watcher, and has become Britain's foremost writer and broadcaster on the subject.
www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/1166900   (377 words)

  
 Biography of Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
William Edgar (Bill) Oddie (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, United Kingdom) is a comedy writer and performer, composer and musician.
After attending King Edward's School in Birmingham, Bill Oddie studied at Cambridge, where he appeared in several Footlights productions, one of which, Cambridge Circus, transferred to the West End, New Zealand and Broadway.
In June 2004, Oddie and Johnnie Morriss were jointly profiled in the first of a three part BBC TWO series, The Way We Went Wild, about televison wildlife presenters.
biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /o/Oddie_Bill.html   (636 words)

  
 John Muir Trust: News 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Discover wild hares at St Andrews, red squirrels in Dumfries, and the largest colony of sea gannets in the world, as the BBC embarks on a journey of discovery around the British Isles.
For three weeks in June, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie will introduce viewers to the vast array of wildlife that can be found all around us, in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England, and Wales.
Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie will show viewers how they can give something back to nature In the BBC's 'Make Space for Nature' campaign.
www.jmt.org /news/2004/seabird_p.html   (624 words)

  
 Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie - TheBestLinks.com - Bird, BBC, Channel 4, Devon, ...
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Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie was a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday - Thursday, from 31 May - 17 June, 2004.
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 Bill oddie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society Environment | 'Oddie power' sends Britain wild
In a natural history equivalent of the phenomenon dubbed "the Delia effect", the BBC's eccentric wildlife presenter has caused a nationwide stampede to garden centres, as viewers, prompted into action by his latest show, have been stripping the shelves of supplies of bird boxes and bird feeders.
Halting the decline of the UK's native house sparrow population was one of Britain Goes Wild's regular talking points and viewers responded by buying wooden house sparrow terraces in their hundreds, which the RSPB sells for £21.99.
The series, which was broadcast live from an organic farm at Devon's Fishleigh Estate and included live outside broadcasts from a gannet breeding colony on Bass Rock in Scotland and the London Wetland Centre in Barnes, was an unexpected hit for the corporation, despite strong competition in its last week from Euro 2004 football.
society.guardian.co.uk /environment/story/0,14124,1243978,00.html   (650 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 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
After attending King Edward's School in Birmingham, Bill Oddie studied English Literature at Cambridge, where he appeared in several Footlights productions, one of which, Cambridge Circus, transferred to the West End, New Zealand and Broadway.
Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife (due early 2005)
In June 2004, Oddie and Johnny Morris were jointly profiled in the first of a three part BBC TWO series, The Way We Went Wild, about televison wildlife presenters.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /Bill_Oddie   (759 words)

  
 Bill Oddie -
Image:Billoddie.jpg William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, BA, MA (Cantab.), born July 7 1941 in Rochdale (at the time, part of Lancashire), is a comedy writer and performer, author, and talented composer and musician.
His programmes for the BBC include Springwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild in Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie and Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie.
During the course of the song, the rest of the cast attributed the gravely quality of his voice to a bad cold.
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 Article in Scotsman - Pigeonbasics.com - Message Forum
A wild animal savaging a domesticated animal broke the BBC charter of balance and offensiveness (ordinary viewer).
Thirdly, Bill Oddie said after the film was shown that some in the studio were cheering the peregrine on.
Bill Oddie said in another programme you identify a bird by its looks and behaviour not by its markings.
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 Guardian | The prize quiz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Birmingham-bred Bill Oddie is an ornithologist, conservationist and natural history presenter.
As a student he wrote scripts for TV's That Was the Week That Was and achieved theatrical glory with Cambridge Footlights.
Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie continues this week at 8pm Monday to Thursday on BBC2.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4946542-103680,00.html   (148 words)

  
 Bill Oddie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
But Bill Oddie has produced a stroke of television genius: he has invented a new way of presenting nature programmes.
Springwatch, in conjunction with the BBC show presented by Bill Oddie, takes place at Chatelherault Country Park near Hamilton.
It also created a run on nest boxes for and bumble bees, bird baths and bird feed from suppliers, likened to the Delia power phenomenon created when Delia Smith mentioned the tools and ingredients she was using on her cooking programme Delia's How to Cook.
bill-oddie.wikiverse.org   (827 words)

  
 BBC Shop - Bill Oddie: How To Watch Wildlife Part 1 (DVD)
Following the tremendous success of three series of Bill Oddie Goes Wild, Britain's favourite wildlife man now travels the length and breadth of the country to seek out our greatest wildlife treasures - then shows you how to search for, find and watch them for yourself.
Bill is your personal guide to the best of British wildlife, throughout the seasons from the coming of spring, through summer and autumn, to the depths of winter.
Join Bill as he experiences the thrill of the chase, the frustration of failure, and the sheer satisfaction of sharing time and space with our most amazing animals.
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