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Bill Oddie

June 2022

  • John Burton at the Yabotí Biosphere Reserve, Argentina, in 2012. He focused on preventing habitat loss rather than simply championing iconic species.

    John Burton obituary

    Conservationist whose creative thinking saved 770,000 acres of threatened habitat from damaging development

September 2020

  • Bill Oddie in 2017.

    Goodies star Bill Oddie reveals he has been 'very ill'

    Performer and presenter says he has been suffering ‘almost fatal’ condition of lithium toxicity

May 2019

  • Goldfinch in flight

    Survival of the fattest: why the country birds are coming to town

    Treating our feathered friends has had a major effect on the variety and numbers in our gardens. But not all species feel the benefit

September 2018

  • The Goodies rode a red Trandem in the first two series of the show.

    Goodies’ ‘trandem’ bike wheeled out for auction

    Final incarnation of the comedy trio’s three-seater to be sold in October

May 2017

  • Hounds run during a hunt in 2001

    Foxhunting belongs to the dark ages of animal cruelty

    Letter: Most people in England and Wales want hunting with hounds to remail illegal, says Bill Oddie, president of the League Against Cruel Sports

June 2016

  • Stephen with Regent Bowerbird

    I make a living out of the birds and the bees, thanks to Mum

    From working with Bill Oddie to launching the BBC’s Springwatch, Stephen Moss owes it all to a chance childhood encounter on the Thames riverbank alongside his mother – and to her subsequent sacrifices

November 2015

  • Hedgehogs

    Sow, Grow, Repeat
    Hedgehogs: Sow, Grow, Repeat Autumn

    We snuffle around the garden in search of hedgehogs. As their population continues its decline in the UK, what can we do to help?

May 2015

  • 'Beneath the often irksome words, the pictures are thrilling, and the technology improves each season.'

    Mark Lawson on television
    Springwatch has high drama, it doesn't need soap opera twists

    Producers of the programme should stop trying to make this much-loved wildlife show into Game of Thrones – the natural world is thrilling enough

March 2015

  • Bill Oddie

    My family values
    Bill Oddie: My family values

    The broadcaster talks about his mother, who was in an asylum for much of his childhood, and realising that he too had bipolar disorder

October 2014

  • Undated National Parks and Wildlife Service handout photo of a red kite that has been poisoned, January 27, 2012. The breeding female bird, which had been nesting on a farm near Redcross, Co Wicklow, was found near Brittas Bay late last year.

    Hundreds of birds of prey are being shot or poisoned in UK

    RSPB calls on shooting industry to help stamp out problem as a report shows birds, including golden eagles, hen harriers and red kites were illegally killed last year

July 2014

  • Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie (left to right) graduated from Cambridge Circus to form The Goodies

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 11 July 1963: Cleese and Oddie stand out in Cambridge Circus

    Originally published in the Guardian on 11 July 1963: The latest revue from Cambridge University Footlights is a hit, launching Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese onto the comedy circuit

May 2014

  • Cover of an Enid Blyton book

    It's not just outdoor play that's gone – so has a whole genre of children's fiction

    Jonathan Calder
    Jonathan Calder: Bill Oddie and Chris Packham have called for kids to play outside. The spirit of adventure should return to books, too

November 2013

  • Ruby Wax signs book

    Celebrity mental health campaigning – a Trojan horse for raising awareness

    Mark Brown
    Mark Brown: Whatever Bill Oddie or Ruby Wax think, real change can only happen when we value a person with mental health issues no matter who they are

September 2013

  • An orangutan

    David Attenborough supports effort to save orangutan from extinction

  • Bill Wallis in Huggy Bear, 1976

    Bill Wallis obituary

June 2013

  • Peter Cook

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 3 June 1983: Cambridge Footlights celebrate 100 years of comedy

    Originally published in the Guardian on 3 June 1983: Student revue group helped launch careers of Peter Cook, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson

May 2013

  • World Development Movement campaigners set up a Carbon Bubbles champagne bar outside HSBC's AGM

    HSBC under fire from all sides at AGM

    Bank sees 11% of investors vote down the pay report as it is attacked by environmental campaigners, former staff – and Bill Oddie
  • Lesser Black Backed Gull (Larus fuscus) Chicks

    Environment blog
    Cull reminds us that gulls need friends

    Bill Oddie: Prejudices against gulls should not cloud our judgement on the culling of them to protect game birds

  • Bill Oddie protests against HSBC illegal logging in spoof documentary - video

    Bill Oddie protests against HSBC illegal logging in spoof documentary - video

    In this spoof documentary the naturalist protests against HSBC's illegal logging by entering the den of the banker

May 2012

  • Arthur Jacobs and Bill Oddie

    Other lives
    Arthur Jacobs obituary

    Other lives: Passionate birdwatcher who made an important contribution to Upton Warren Nature Reserve in Worcestershire
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