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Bill Oddie

June 07, 2023

William Edgar Oddie OBE (born 7 July 1941)[2] is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.

Bill Oddie

OBE
Oddie in 2007
Born (1941-07-07) 7 July 1941 (age 81)
Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Occupations
  • Actor
  • artist
  • comedian
  • conservationist
  • musician
  • ornithologist
  • songwriter
  • television presenter
  • writer
Years active1963–present
Political partyGreen
Spouses
  • Jeanne M Hart
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1966, divorced)​
    [1]
  • Laura Beaumont
    ​
    (m. 1983)​
    [1]
Children3, including Kate Hardie
Websitebilloddie.com

A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham,[3] Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings.[4] His wildlife programmes for the BBC include Springwatch and Autumnwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild in Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie and Bill Oddie Goes Wild.

Early life

Oddie was born on 7 July 1941 in Rochdale, Lancashire, but moved to Birmingham at a young age; his father was assistant chief accountant at the Midlands Electricity Board.[5] His mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and, during most of his youth, lived in a hospital.[6] He was educated at Lapal Primary School, Halesowen Grammar School (now The Earls High School, Halesowen) and King Edward's School, Birmingham, an all-boys direct grant school, where he captained the school's rugby union team.[citation needed] He then studied English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Career

Comedy

While at Cambridge University Oddie appeared in several Footlights Club productions. One of these, a revue called A Clump of Plinths, was so successful at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that it was renamed Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West End in London, then New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964. Meanwhile, still at Cambridge, Oddie wrote scripts for and appeared briefly in TV's That Was the Week That Was.[7]

He appeared in Bernard Braden's television series On The Braden Beat in 1964. Subsequently he was a key member of the performers in the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, where many of his musical compositions were featured. Some were released on the album Distinctly Oddie (Polydor, 1967). He was one of the first performers to parody a rock song, arranging the traditional Yorkshire folk song "On Ilkla Moor Baht'at" in the style of Joe Cocker's hit rendition of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" (released on John Peel's Dandelion Records in 1970 and featured in Peel's special box of most-treasured singles), and singing "Andy Pandy" in the style of a brassy soul number such as Wilson Pickett or Geno Washington might perform. In many shows he would do short impressions of Hughie Green.

On television Oddie was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Graeme Garden, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn. Later he was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, for which he became a cast member for the second series.

Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden then co-wrote and appeared in their television comedy series The Goodies (1970–1982). The Goodies also released records, including "Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me"/"The In-Betweenies", "The Funky Gibbon" (co-written by Oddie with Dave MacRae) and "Black Pudding Bertha", which were hit singles in 1974–75. They reformed, briefly, in 2005 for a successful 13-date tour of Australia.

Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden voiced characters on the 1983 animated children's programme Bananaman.[8][9][10]

In the Amnesty International show A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick), Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Garden sang their hit song "Funky Gibbon". They also appeared on Top of the Pops with the song. Together with Garden (who is a qualified medical doctor), Oddie co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House, including most of the first season and all of the second season. He has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, on which Garden is and Brooke-Taylor was a regular panellist. In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a six-part science-fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future.[11]

Natural history

Oddie's first published work was an article about the birdlife of Birmingham's Bartley Reservoir in the West Midland Bird Club's 1962 Annual Report.[12] (He is first credited in the 1956 report, in which reports of his bird observations are tagged with his initials "WEO".[13][14]) He has since written a number of books about birds and birdwatching as well as articles for many specialist publications including British Birds, Birdwatching Magazine and Birdwatch.

He discussed bird-song recordings with Derek Jones in an August 1973 BBC Radio 4 programme called Sounds Natural.[15]

In the autumn of 1976 Oddie was involved in the successful identification of Britain's first-ever record of Pallas's reed bunting on Fair Isle, Shetland.[16]

One of Oddie's first forays into the world of television natural history was as a guest on Animal Magic in December 1977.[17] Another early natural-history radio appearance was in October, as the guest on Radio 4's Through My Window, discussing the birds of Hampstead Heath.[18]

On 30 July 1985 he was the subject of a 50-minute Nature Watch Special: Bill Oddie – Bird Watcher, in which he was interviewed by Julian Pettifer[19] at places where he had spent time birding, including Bartley Reservoir, the Christopher Cadbury Wetland Reserve at Upton Warren, RSPB Titchwell Marsh and Blakeney Point.[13]

Oddie has since hosted a number of successful nature programmes for the BBC, many produced by Stephen Moss, including:[20]

The first broadcast, in 2004, of Britain Goes Wild set a record for its timeslot of 8 pm on BBC Two of 3.4 million viewers, one million more than the Channel 4 programme showing at that time. Britain Goes Wild, renamed Springwatch the following year, became a wildlife broadcasting phenomenon, attracting over 4 million viewers.[21]

He became president of the West Midland Bird Club in 1999,[22] having been vice-president since 1991,[22] and is a former member of the council of the RSPB. Oddie is also a President of the League Against Cruel Sports[23] and a vice-president of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.[24] He practised as a bird ringer but allowed his licence to lapse.[13]

In 2003, Oddie set up a half-marathon to raise money for various wildlife charities in his birth town of Rochdale.[25] Celebrities who have participated in the event include Ray Mears, Katherine Jenkins and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

In 2011, Oddie featured as an investigator in Snares Uncovered: killers in the countryside.[26] The film was an exposé of snaring in Scotland and was commissioned by animal protection charity OneKind. During the investigation Oddie discovered more than 70 snares and several stink pits.

Music

Oddie wrote original music at Cambridge University for the Footlights and later wrote comic songs for I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. He also wrote a number of comic songs for The Goodies, most of which he also performed.

In the 1960s and early 1970s Oddie released a number of singles and at least one album. One of the former, issued in 1970 on John Peel's Dandelion Records label (Catalogue No: 4786), was "On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at",[27] performed in the style of Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from my Friends". The B-side, "Harry Krishna", featured the Hare Krishna chant, substituting the names of contemporary famous people called Harry, including Harry Secombe, Harry Worth, Harry Lauder and Harry Corbett, as well as puns such as "Harry [Hurry] along now" and "Harrystotle [Aristotle]" and ending with "Harry-ly [I really] must go now". Both tracks appear on the compilation CD Life Too, Has Surface Noise: The Complete Dandelion Records Singles Collection 1969–1972 (2007). In 1966 he was credited as the vocalist with Spencer's Washboard Kings on "Five Feet Two" (Rayrick LCR1001a). The vocalist on the B-side of this 45rpm single, "If You Knew Susie", was Jean Hart, Oddie's future wife.[28]

He played the drums and saxophone and appeared as Cousin Kevin in a production of The Who's rock opera Tommy at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, on 9 December 1972. He has also contributed vocals to a Rick Wakeman album, Criminal Record.

He recorded a single, "Superspike", with John Cleese and a group of UK athletes, billed the "Superspike Squad", to fund the latter's attendance at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He co-produced the record with Stephen Shane.[29]

Oddie took part[when?] in the English National Opera production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado, in which he appeared in the role of the Lord High Executioner, taking over the role from Eric Idle. During the early 1990s Oddie was a DJ for London-based jazz radio station 102.2 Jazz FM.[30]

In 2007, Oddie appeared on the BBC series Play It Again.[31] In the episode he attempts to realise his dream of becoming a rock guitarist. Initially teacher Bridget Mermikides tries to teach him using traditional methods but he rebels: instead he turns to old friends Albert Lee, Dave Davies (of The Kinks) and Mark Knopfler for advice and strikes out on his own. He succeeds in the target of playing lead guitar for his daughter Rosie's band at her 21st birthday party and even manages to impress his erstwhile teacher.

In November 2010 he agreed, along with fellow members of The Goodies, to rerelease their 1970s hit "The Funky Gibbon" to raise funds for the International Primate Protection League's Save the Gibbon appeal.

Other television and voice work

Oddie appeared as the hapless window cleaner in the Eric Sykes' comedy story The Plank in 1967. He also presented the live children's Saturday morning entertainment show Saturday Banana (ITV/Southern Television) during the late 1970s. In the late 1980s he was a presenter of the BBC TV show Fax (a show about 'facts').

In 1981, he appeared as a Telethon celebrity in New Zealand, hosted by TV1.[32] He voices Asterix in the UK dub of the 1989 animated film Asterix and the Big Fight (an animated adaptation of the books Asterix and the Big Fight and Asterix and the Soothsayer, novelized as Operation Getafix).

In 1992, he was a guest star in the US comedy television series Married... with Children for a three-part episode set in England.[33]

In 1997–98, he appeared on the Channel 4 archaeological programme Time Team, as the team excavated a Roman villa site in Turkdean, Gloucestershire.[34]

He was the compère of a daytime BBC gameshow History Hunt (in 2003); and has appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Doctor Who and the Pirates. In 2004, he appeared on the first ever episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are?, in which he looked into his ancestry: he was visibly moved by its revelations. In 2005, he took part in Rolf on Art – the big event at Trafalgar Square and in September that year was also a celebrity guest along with Lynda Bellingham on the ITV1 programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He also gave opinions on 100 greatest cartoons on Channel 4 that year, talking about Tom and Jerry and cartoon incidents such as the "Asses of Fire skit" in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.[35]

In 2006, Oddie appeared in the BBC show Never Mind the Buzzcocks,[36] and also appeared on the topical quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats. He was also the voice behind many B&Q adverts throughout 2006/2007. On 25 May 2007, Oddie made a cameo appearance on Ronni Ancona's new comedy sketch show, Ronni Ancona & Co.

Also in 2007, three artists each painted a portrait of Oddie, as part of the BBC programme Star Portraits with Rolf Harris. One of the artists, Mark Roscoe, later revealed a dislike of Oddie, claiming to have included hidden insults in his work.[37]

He hosted the genealogy-based series My Famous Family, broadcast on UKTV History in 2007.[38] In 2008, Oddie was a guest on Jamie Oliver's television special Jamie's Fowl Dinners, talking about free-range chickens.[39]

He also appeared on Would I Lie To You? in 2011, where he revealed that he was saved from drowning by Freddy from popular children's series Rainbow and Rod, Jane and Freddy while on holiday in the Seychelles.

 
Bill Oddie performing live at the Astor Theatre in Perth, Western Australia, 27 June 2013.

In February 2015, Oddie appeared in The Keith Lemon Sketch Show as the narrator of the sketch Ed Sheeran Watch.[40]

He appeared as a contestant on a celebrity edition of Fifteen to One in August 2015[41] and the following month he appeared on Through the Keyhole.[42]

He has appeared three times on the programme Pointless Celebrities, the most recent appearance being in 2016.[43]

In 2017, he appeared in three episodes of The Real Marigold Hotel.[44]

In 2018, he featured on the programme The Two Ronnies: In Their Own Words.[45] In 2019, he appeared on the show The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited.[46]

In 2020, he appeared in the documentary Celebrity Britain by Barge: Then & Now.[47]

2013 Australian tour

Oddie undertook an Australian tour during June 2013 in all of the mainland states capital cities – Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth – in a series of one-off shows, An Oldie but a Goodie. A video message from Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden was shown during the performances.[48] Oddie made personal appearances on both The Project and Adam Hills Tonight TV shows during the tour; he also filmed a guest-programming spot for the ABC-TV's all-night music video show Rage.[49]

Personal life

Family

In 1966 Oddie married Jeanne Hart,[50][51] and from this marriage he has two daughters, one of whom is the actress Kate Hardie.[52] The couple later divorced.

In 1983 Oddie married Laura Beaumont-Giles.[52] The couple have worked on a variety of projects for children, including film scripts, drama and comedy series, puppet shows and books. They have a daughter, Rosie, born in October 1985,[52] and live in Hampstead, North London. Rosie Oddie is a musician, also using the name Rosie Bones.[53]

Mental health

Oddie has experienced depression for most of his life before being diagnosed with clinical depression in 2001.[54] In March 2009 he was reportedly admitted to Capio Nightingale psychiatric hospital in Marylebone for treatment. His then agent, David Foster, said: "Bill gets these bouts every two or three years where he gets down for about two weeks and recovers. He sometimes goes into hospital or takes a break or has a change of scenery to recharge his batteries."[55] In January 2010 Oddie spoke to the media, revealing that he had in fact had two separate stays in different hospitals, only being discharged "in time for Christmas". He said that he was dealing with depression and bipolar disorder, describing the period as "probably the worst 12 months of my life". Oddie stated that he was planning to meet BBC executives to discuss his return to television work.[56]

His illness meant that Oddie did not appear in the 2009 and 2010 series of Springwatch, although he made a guest appearance in the penultimate episode of the latter. He subsequently said he was dismissed from Springwatch and that this had caused the depressive illness.[57]

Oddie presented the BBC Radio 4 Appeal programme on 10 August 2014 on behalf of the charity Bipolar UK. He revealed that as a consequence of his bipolar disorder he had attempted suicide during one of his depressive episodes.[58] On the UK TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? he attributed his depression and bipolar disorder as an adult to his minimal and painful relationship with his mother.[59]

Political views

Oddie supports the Green Party.[60][non-primary source needed] In October 2014, on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live, he stated that he wanted a limit on the number of children that British families can have, saying that he was "very often ashamed" to be British, calling them "a terrible race".[61][62]

Honours

In 2002, Oddie became the third person to decline to appear on This Is Your Life but changed his mind a few hours later.[63][64] On 16 October 2003 Oddie was made an OBE for his service to Wildlife Conservation in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. He wore a camouflage shirt and crumpled jacket to receive his medal. 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 television wildlife presenters. In May 2005 he received the British Naturalists' Association's Peter Scott Memorial Award, from BNA president David Bellamy, "in recognition of his great contribution to our understanding of natural history and conservation."[65][66] He is a recipient of the RSPB Medal.[67]

On 30 June 2009 he was proposed for inclusion in the Birmingham Walk of Stars, with the public invited to vote.[68]

Bibliography

(incomplete list)

  • Bill Oddie Unplucked: Columns, Blogs and Musings ISBN 978-1-4729-1531-3 (Bloomsbury, 2015)
  • Bill Oddie's Introduction to Birdwatching (Subbuteo Books, 2002)
  • Bill Oddie's Colouring Guide to Birds (Piccolo, 1991)
  • Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book
  • Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book (paperback with additional material)
  • Bill Oddie's Gone Birding
  • The Big Bird Race (with David Tomlinson; Collins, 1983)
  • Follow That Bird!
  • Gripping Yarns (Christopher Helm, 2000)
  • Bird in the Nest
  • Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife
  • One Flew into the Cuckoos Egg (Autobiography)

Bill Oddie also co-wrote the Springwatch & Autumnwatch book with Kate Humble and Simon King.

Co-written with the other members of The Goodies:

  • The Goodies File
  • The Goodies Book of Criminal Records
  • The Goodies Disaster Movie

Co-written with Laura Beaumont:

Contributions

Discography

See also: The Goodies discography and ISIRTA songs

Albums

Year Title Label Cat No.
1967 Distinctly Oddie Polydor 582 007

Singles

Year A-side B-side Label Cat. No.
1964 Nothing Better To Do Traffic Island Parlophone R 5153
1965 The Knitting Song Ain't Got Rhythm R 5346
1966 I Can't Get Through Because She Is My Love R 5433
1969 Jimmy Young Irish Get Out Decca F 12903
1970 On Ilkla Moor Baht'at Harry Krishna Dandelion
Epic 		-
1976 Superspike (Part 1) Superspike (Part 2) Bradley's BRAD 7606

In popular culture

In the fictional world of comedy character Alan Partridge, Oddie is an unseen presence in Alan's life, buying him dressing gowns for Christmas and being part of a radicalised RSPB.[70] He has also been referenced, often humorously, by the hosts of Top Gear.[71]

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External links

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William Edgar Oddie OBE born 7 July 1941 2 is an English actor artist birder comedian conservationist musician songwriter television presenter and writer He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies Bill OddieOBEOddie in 2007Born 1941 07 07 7 July 1941 age 81 Rochdale Lancashire EnglandOccupationsActorartistcomedianconservationistmusicianornithologistsongwritertelevision presenterwriterYears active1963 presentPolitical partyGreenSpousesJeanne M Hart m 1966 divorced wbr 1 Laura Beaumont m 1983 wbr 1 Children3 including Kate HardieWebsitebilloddie wbr comA birder since his childhood in Quinton Birmingham 3 Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist conservationist and television presenter on wildlife issues Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings 4 His wildlife programmes for the BBC include Springwatch and Autumnwatch How to Watch Wildlife Wild in Your Garden Birding with Bill Oddie Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie and Bill Oddie Goes Wild Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Comedy 2 2 Natural history 2 3 Music 2 4 Other television and voice work 2 5 2013 Australian tour 3 Personal life 3 1 Family 3 2 Mental health 3 3 Political views 4 Honours 5 Bibliography 5 1 Contributions 6 Discography 6 1 Albums 6 2 Singles 7 In popular culture 8 References 8 1 Sources 9 External linksEarly life EditOddie was born on 7 July 1941 in Rochdale Lancashire but moved to Birmingham at a young age his father was assistant chief accountant at the Midlands Electricity Board 5 His mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and during most of his youth lived in a hospital 6 He was educated at Lapal Primary School Halesowen Grammar School now The Earls High School Halesowen and King Edward s School Birmingham an all boys direct grant school where he captained the school s rugby union team citation needed He then studied English literature at Pembroke College Cambridge Career EditComedy Edit While at Cambridge University Oddie appeared in several Footlights Club productions One of these a revue called A Clump of Plinths was so successful at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that it was renamed Cambridge Circus and transferred to the West End in London then New Zealand and Broadway in September 1964 Meanwhile still at Cambridge Oddie wrote scripts for and appeared briefly in TV s That Was the Week That Was 7 He appeared in Bernard Braden s television series On The Braden Beat in 1964 Subsequently he was a key member of the performers in the BBC radio series I m Sorry I ll Read That Again where many of his musical compositions were featured Some were released on the album Distinctly Oddie Polydor 1967 He was one of the first performers to parody a rock song arranging the traditional Yorkshire folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht at in the style of Joe Cocker s hit rendition of the Beatles With a Little Help from My Friends released on John Peel s Dandelion Records in 1970 and featured in Peel s special box of most treasured singles and singing Andy Pandy in the style of a brassy soul number such as Wilson Pickett or Geno Washington might perform In many shows he would do short impressions of Hughie Green On television Oddie was co writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Graeme Garden Terry Jones Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn Later he was co writer and performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke Taylor and Graeme Garden for which he became a cast member for the second series Oddie Brooke Taylor and Garden then co wrote and appeared in their television comedy series The Goodies 1970 1982 The Goodies also released records including Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me The In Betweenies The Funky Gibbon co written by Oddie with Dave MacRae and Black Pudding Bertha which were hit singles in 1974 75 They reformed briefly in 2005 for a successful 13 date tour of Australia Oddie Brooke Taylor and Garden voiced characters on the 1983 animated children s programme Bananaman 8 9 10 In the Amnesty International show A Poke in the Eye With a Sharp Stick Oddie Brooke Taylor and Garden sang their hit song Funky Gibbon They also appeared on Top of the Pops with the song Together with Garden who is a qualified medical doctor Oddie co wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House including most of the first season and all of the second season He has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I m Sorry I Haven t a Clue on which Garden is and Brooke Taylor was a regular panellist In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote but did not perform in a six part science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV The show was set in an international space station in the near future 11 Natural history Edit Oddie s first published work was an article about the birdlife of Birmingham s Bartley Reservoir in the West Midland Bird Club s 1962 Annual Report 12 He is first credited in the 1956 report in which reports of his bird observations are tagged with his initials WEO 13 14 He has since written a number of books about birds and birdwatching as well as articles for many specialist publications including British Birds Birdwatching Magazine and Birdwatch He discussed bird song recordings with Derek Jones in an August 1973 BBC Radio 4 programme called Sounds Natural 15 In the autumn of 1976 Oddie was involved in the successful identification of Britain s first ever record of Pallas s reed bunting on Fair Isle Shetland 16 One of Oddie s first forays into the world of television natural history was as a guest on Animal Magic in December 1977 17 Another early natural history radio appearance was in October as the guest on Radio 4 s Through My Window discussing the birds of Hampstead Heath 18 On 30 July 1985 he was the subject of a 50 minute Nature Watch Special Bill Oddie Bird Watcher in which he was interviewed by Julian Pettifer 19 at places where he had spent time birding including Bartley Reservoir the Christopher Cadbury Wetland Reserve at Upton Warren RSPB Titchwell Marsh and Blakeney Point 13 Oddie has since hosted a number of successful nature programmes for the BBC many produced by Stephen Moss including 20 The Great Bird Race 1983 Channel 4 The Great Kenyan Bird Safari BBC Favourite Walks A Bird Walk 1985 BBC filmed on Fair Isle Worldwise The Bird Business 1985 Channel 4 Oddie in Paradise 1985 BBC Wild Weekends TV AM Flight to Eilat Channel 4 Bird in the Nest two series 1994 and 1995 Birding with Bill Oddie three series 1997 1998 and 2000 Bill Oddie Goes Wild three series 2001 2002 and 2003 Wild in Your Garden 2003 Britain Goes Wild 2004 Bill Oddie in Tiger Country 2004 Bill Oddie s How to Watch Wildlife two series 2005 and 2006 also on DVD Seven Natural Wonders London edition 2005 The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs 2005 also on DVD Springwatch 2005 2008 Autumnwatch 2006 2008 Bill Oddie Back in the USA 2007 Bill Oddie s Top Ten Birds 2007 BBC Four 100 Years of Wildlife 2007 Bill Oddie s Wild Side 2008 Bill Oddie s Top 10 2008 The first broadcast in 2004 of Britain Goes Wild set a record for its timeslot of 8 pm on BBC Two of 3 4 million viewers one million more than the Channel 4 programme showing at that time Britain Goes Wild renamed Springwatch the following year became a wildlife broadcasting phenomenon attracting over 4 million viewers 21 He became president of the West Midland Bird Club in 1999 22 having been vice president since 1991 22 and is a former member of the council of the RSPB Oddie is also a President of the League Against Cruel Sports 23 and a vice president of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers 24 He practised as a bird ringer but allowed his licence to lapse 13 In 2003 Oddie set up a half marathon to raise money for various wildlife charities in his birth town of Rochdale 25 Celebrities who have participated in the event include Ray Mears Katherine Jenkins and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall In 2011 Oddie featured as an investigator in Snares Uncovered killers in the countryside 26 The film was an expose of snaring in Scotland and was commissioned by animal protection charity OneKind During the investigation Oddie discovered more than 70 snares and several stink pits Music Edit Oddie wrote original music at Cambridge University for the Footlights and later wrote comic songs for I m Sorry I ll Read That Again He also wrote a number of comic songs for The Goodies most of which he also performed In the 1960s and early 1970s Oddie released a number of singles and at least one album One of the former issued in 1970 on John Peel s Dandelion Records label Catalogue No 4786 was On Ilkla Moor Baht at 27 performed in the style of Joe Cocker s With a Little Help from my Friends The B side Harry Krishna featured the Hare Krishna chant substituting the names of contemporary famous people called Harry including Harry Secombe Harry Worth Harry Lauder and Harry Corbett as well as puns such as Harry Hurry along now and Harrystotle Aristotle and ending with Harry ly I really must go now Both tracks appear on the compilation CD Life Too Has Surface Noise The Complete Dandelion Records Singles Collection 1969 1972 2007 In 1966 he was credited as the vocalist with Spencer s Washboard Kings on Five Feet Two Rayrick LCR1001a The vocalist on the B side of this 45rpm single If You Knew Susie was Jean Hart Oddie s future wife 28 He played the drums and saxophone and appeared as Cousin Kevin in a production of The Who s rock opera Tommy at the Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park London on 9 December 1972 He has also contributed vocals to a Rick Wakeman album Criminal Record He recorded a single Superspike with John Cleese and a group of UK athletes billed the Superspike Squad to fund the latter s attendance at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal He co produced the record with Stephen Shane 29 Oddie took part when in the English National Opera production of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado in which he appeared in the role of the Lord High Executioner taking over the role from Eric Idle During the early 1990s Oddie was a DJ for London based jazz radio station 102 2 Jazz FM 30 In 2007 Oddie appeared on the BBC series Play It Again 31 In the episode he attempts to realise his dream of becoming a rock guitarist Initially teacher Bridget Mermikides tries to teach him using traditional methods but he rebels instead he turns to old friends Albert Lee Dave Davies of The Kinks and Mark Knopfler for advice and strikes out on his own He succeeds in the target of playing lead guitar for his daughter Rosie s band at her 21st birthday party and even manages to impress his erstwhile teacher In November 2010 he agreed along with fellow members of The Goodies to rerelease their 1970s hit The Funky Gibbon to raise funds for the International Primate Protection League s Save the Gibbon appeal Other television and voice work Edit Oddie appeared as the hapless window cleaner in the Eric Sykes comedy story The Plank in 1967 He also presented the live children s Saturday morning entertainment show Saturday Banana ITV Southern Television during the late 1970s In the late 1980s he was a presenter of the BBC TV show Fax a show about facts In 1981 he appeared as a Telethon celebrity in New Zealand hosted by TV1 32 He voices Asterix in the UK dub of the 1989 animated film Asterix and the Big Fight an animated adaptation of the books Asterix and the Big Fight and Asterix and the Soothsayer novelized as Operation Getafix In 1992 he was a guest star in the US comedy television series Married with Children for a three part episode set in England 33 In 1997 98 he appeared on the Channel 4 archaeological programme Time Team as the team excavated a Roman villa site in Turkdean Gloucestershire 34 He was the compere of a daytime BBC gameshow History Hunt in 2003 and has appeared in the Doctor Who audio drama Doctor Who and the Pirates In 2004 he appeared on the first ever episode of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are in which he looked into his ancestry he was visibly moved by its revelations In 2005 he took part in Rolf on Art the big event at Trafalgar Square and in September that year was also a celebrity guest along with Lynda Bellingham on the ITV1 programme Who Wants to be a Millionaire He also gave opinions on 100 greatest cartoons on Channel 4 that year talking about Tom and Jerry and cartoon incidents such as the Asses of Fire skit in South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut 35 In 2006 Oddie appeared in the BBC show Never Mind the Buzzcocks 36 and also appeared on the topical quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats He was also the voice behind many B amp Q adverts throughout 2006 2007 On 25 May 2007 Oddie made a cameo appearance on Ronni Ancona s new comedy sketch show Ronni Ancona amp Co Also in 2007 three artists each painted a portrait of Oddie as part of the BBC programme Star Portraits with Rolf Harris One of the artists Mark Roscoe later revealed a dislike of Oddie claiming to have included hidden insults in his work 37 He hosted the genealogy based series My Famous Family broadcast on UKTV History in 2007 38 In 2008 Oddie was a guest on Jamie Oliver s television special Jamie s Fowl Dinners talking about free range chickens 39 He also appeared on Would I Lie To You in 2011 where he revealed that he was saved from drowning by Freddy from popular children s series Rainbow and Rod Jane and Freddy while on holiday in the Seychelles Bill Oddie performing live at the Astor Theatre in Perth Western Australia 27 June 2013 In February 2015 Oddie appeared in The Keith Lemon Sketch Show as the narrator of the sketch Ed Sheeran Watch 40 He appeared as a contestant on a celebrity edition of Fifteen to One in August 2015 41 and the following month he appeared on Through the Keyhole 42 He has appeared three times on the programme Pointless Celebrities the most recent appearance being in 2016 43 In 2017 he appeared in three episodes of The Real Marigold Hotel 44 In 2018 he featured on the programme The Two Ronnies In Their Own Words 45 In 2019 he appeared on the show The Inbetweeners Fwends Reunited 46 In 2020 he appeared in the documentary Celebrity Britain by Barge Then amp Now 47 2013 Australian tour Edit Oddie undertook an Australian tour during June 2013 in all of the mainland states capital cities Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Adelaide and Perth in a series of one off shows An Oldie but a Goodie A video message from Tim Brooke Taylor and Graeme Garden was shown during the performances 48 Oddie made personal appearances on both The Project and Adam Hills Tonight TV shows during the tour he also filmed a guest programming spot for the ABC TV s all night music video show Rage 49 Personal life EditFamily Edit In 1966 Oddie married Jeanne Hart 50 51 and from this marriage he has two daughters one of whom is the actress Kate Hardie 52 The couple later divorced In 1983 Oddie married Laura Beaumont Giles 52 The couple have worked on a variety of projects for children including film scripts drama and comedy series puppet shows and books They have a daughter Rosie born in October 1985 52 and live in Hampstead North London Rosie Oddie is a musician also using the name Rosie Bones 53 Mental health Edit Oddie has experienced depression for most of his life before being diagnosed with clinical depression in 2001 54 In March 2009 he was reportedly admitted to Capio Nightingale psychiatric hospital in Marylebone for treatment His then agent David Foster said Bill gets these bouts every two or three years where he gets down for about two weeks and recovers He sometimes goes into hospital or takes a break or has a change of scenery to recharge his batteries 55 In January 2010 Oddie spoke to the media revealing that he had in fact had two separate stays in different hospitals only being discharged in time for Christmas He said that he was dealing with depression and bipolar disorder describing the period as probably the worst 12 months of my life Oddie stated that he was planning to meet BBC executives to discuss his return to television work 56 His illness meant that Oddie did not appear in the 2009 and 2010 series of Springwatch although he made a guest appearance in the penultimate episode of the latter He subsequently said he was dismissed from Springwatch and that this had caused the depressive illness 57 Oddie presented the BBC Radio 4 Appeal programme on 10 August 2014 on behalf of the charity Bipolar UK He revealed that as a consequence of his bipolar disorder he had attempted suicide during one of his depressive episodes 58 On the UK TV programme Who Do You Think You Are he attributed his depression and bipolar disorder as an adult to his minimal and painful relationship with his mother 59 Political views Edit Oddie supports the Green Party 60 non primary source needed In October 2014 on the BBC s Sunday Morning Live he stated that he wanted a limit on the number of children that British families can have saying that he was very often ashamed to be British calling them a terrible race 61 62 Honours EditIn 2002 Oddie became the third person to decline to appear on This Is Your Life but changed his mind a few hours later 63 64 On 16 October 2003 Oddie was made an OBE for his service to Wildlife Conservation in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace He wore a camouflage shirt and crumpled jacket to receive his medal 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 television wildlife presenters In May 2005 he received the British Naturalists Association s Peter Scott Memorial Award from BNA president David Bellamy in recognition of his great contribution to our understanding of natural history and conservation 65 66 He is a recipient of the RSPB Medal 67 On 30 June 2009 he was proposed for inclusion in the Birmingham Walk of Stars with the public invited to vote 68 Bibliography Edit incomplete list Bill Oddie Unplucked Columns Blogs and Musings ISBN 978 1 4729 1531 3 Bloomsbury 2015 Bill Oddie s Introduction to Birdwatching Subbuteo Books 2002 Bill Oddie s Colouring Guide to Birds Piccolo 1991 Bill Oddie s Little Black Bird Book Bill Oddie s Little Black Bird Book paperback with additional material Bill Oddie s Gone Birding The Big Bird Race with David Tomlinson Collins 1983 Follow That Bird Gripping Yarns Christopher Helm 2000 Bird in the Nest Bill Oddie s How to Watch Wildlife One Flew into the Cuckoos Egg Autobiography Bill Oddie also co wrote the Springwatch amp Autumnwatch book with Kate Humble and Simon King Co written with the other members of The Goodies The Goodies File The Goodies Book of Criminal Records The Goodies Disaster MovieCo written with Laura Beaumont The Toilet Book or 11 amp minutes a day and how not to waste them Methuen 1984 ISBN 978 0 413 56910 3 Contributions Edit Confessions of a Scilly Birdman David Hunt Croom Helm 1985 ISBN 0 7099 3724 5 foreword and postscript Birds in the Yorkshire Museum Michael Denton North Yorkshire County Council 1995 ISBN 0 905807 10 3 foreword Bird Brain of Britain Charles Gallimore amp Tim Appleton Christopher Helm 2004 ISBN 0 7136 7036 3 foreword Blokes and Birds Stephen Moss New Holland Publishers ISBN 1 84330 484 8 foreword The New Birds of the West Midlands Graham and Janet Harrison West Midland Bird Club 2005 ISBN 0 9507881 2 0 foreword 69 Discography EditSee also The Goodies discography and ISIRTA songs Albums Edit Year Title Label Cat No 1967 Distinctly Oddie Polydor 582 007Singles Edit Year A side B side Label Cat No 1964 Nothing Better To Do Traffic Island Parlophone R 51531965 The Knitting Song Ain t Got Rhythm R 53461966 I Can t Get Through Because She Is My Love R 54331969 Jimmy Young Irish Get Out Decca F 129031970 On Ilkla Moor Baht at Harry Krishna Dandelion Epic 1976 Superspike Part 1 Superspike Part 2 Bradley s BRAD 7606In popular culture EditIn the fictional world of comedy character Alan Partridge Oddie is an unseen presence in Alan s life buying him dressing gowns for Christmas and being part of a radicalised RSPB 70 He has also been referenced often humorously by the hosts of Top Gear 71 References Edit a b Index entry FreeBMD ONS Retrieved 10 November 2022 Wilmut Roger 1980 From Fringe to Flying Circus Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960 1980 London Eyre Metheun p 35 ISBN 0 413 46950 6 Oddie William 2009 One Flew into the Cuckoo s Egg Hodder Paperbacks ISBN 978 0 340 95194 1 Retrieved 5 January 2012 Bill Oddie OBE Comedian and Naturalist BBC Retrieved 15 July 2014 Interview Sunday Times Money p14 29 March 2015 The One Show 13 February 2012 Bill Oddie David Foster Management Archived from the original on 30 September 2010 Retrieved 9 October 2010 Bananaman 80s Cartoons 80scartoons co uk 4 February 2012 Archived from the original on 16 November 2010 Retrieved 15 July 2014 Bananaman International Hero Internationalhero co uk Retrieved 15 July 2014 Bananaman Classic Nick Online Johnnorrisbrown com Archived from the original on 27 December 2010 Retrieved 15 July 2014 Astronauts at British Comedy Guide Oddie W E July 1963 Birds in the Bartley Reservoir Area 1931 1962 Part I The West Midland Bird Report 1962 Birmingham West Midland Bird Club 29 Archived from the original on 14 May 2011 Retrieved 13 February 2010 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint unfit URL link a b c Bill Oddie Bird Watcher Nature Watch 30 July 1985 ITV Central Annual Report 1950s The West Midland Bird Report 1956 Birmingham West Midland Bird Club 23 July 1957 Archived from the original on 2 June 2013 Retrieved 4 January 2013 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint unfit URL link Radio Times entry for Sounds Natural 13 August 1973 BBC Radio Radio 4 Palmer Philip 2000 First for Britain and Ireland 1600 1999 Chelmsford Arlequin Press p 263 ISBN 1 900159 41 4 Radio Times entry for Animal Magic 13 December 1977 BBC Television BBC One Radio 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handling of Jeremy Clarkson controversy Digital Spy Sources Edit Wilmut Roger 1980 From Fringe to Flying Circus Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960 1980 London Eyre Methuen ISBN 0 413 46950 6 Hewison Robert 1983 Footlights A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy London Methuen ISBN 0 413 51150 2 External links EditThis article s use of external links may not follow Wikipedia s policies or guidelines Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references December 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Official website Bill Oddie at IMDb Bill Oddie at the Internet Broadway Database Bill Oddie at the BFI s Screenonline Bill Oddie at British Comedy Guide Bill Oddie s family history at the BBC website for the programme Who Do You Think You Are Bill Oddie Goes Wild on BBC s Science and Nature website In depth interview The Telegraph 28 April 2005 Gigrin Farm chapter from 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