Bill Oddie - 3 March 1980

[@hilaryepstein6013]

Thank you for this. I think Bill's generation of Oxbridge performers is the best and I love their history. They are all getting on now so these interviews are precious.

[@controloz3310]

I love bill oddie. He’s the best.

[@JusGodden]

Bill is a brilliant musician. He is so humble about it.

[@neilpye6089]

Shows what an articulate talker he is, rip timbo

[@videocurios]

Thanks Colin another treasure of an interview.This is how interviewing should be done with nothing to publicise,but honesty.

[@bera3905]

wow, i really enjoyed this. what a lovely guy.

[@Stewchat_etc]

I've met Bill a couple of times through birding. He is genuine when he says he is the only true celeb birder. He is the real deal and its great that he did tell it like it is... I wonder how he is today....

[@omnivorousbiped2447]

Bill Oddie, fascinating intellect and talent.

[@barbarakirk3064]

I was getting a feeling that he didn't enjoy being an English student that much early on, and him talking about how some viewers confuse the Goodies and Monty Python was so like when my mum would ask me about Genesis and the solo careers of same. She'd ask 'is that Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins singing?' when Labi Siffre's 'Something Inside So Strong' came on the radio. When the highlights from the Lyceum concert (circa Duke era) were shown on TV, she said after, 'they didn't do Games Without Frontiers'!

[@JellicleKat]

Thank you for posting that I really enjoyed it. And Bill is my favorite anyway so it made it extra nice to watch.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed watching.

[@djw457]

Wonderful interview.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@andywalkerchannel]

Fascinating. Many thanks.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

Thank you. Yours is the first comment!

[@levimacdonald5188]

Great early interview..

[@ajs41]

They always had to have big curtains in the background on interviews around that time.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

We had no other choice as it was impossible for us to have a cyclorama background in the studio.

[@matthewcannon9699]

Spot on! Had to laugh at your observation, these curtains were everywhere.

[@ColinGrimshaw]

In most of our videos certainly :-)

[@95rav]

Hard to believe anyone thought The Goodies was just a 'kids show'... As Bill mentioned, War Babies had mature overtones, The men dressed as mice - cf today's furries, Graham breeding dogs with chairs etc cf today's gender/identity issues, The humourous but irreverent digs at (now) King Charles 'big ears', The episode on Apartheid, Pirate Radio, The episode where they are buried in cement and age, Gunfight at OK Corral or whatever ot was called and how friendships and allegiances change, etc etc It is no wonder it was equally, if not more, a hit with adults (or big kids).

I just knew he would have to mention about the, 'joke', regarding bird watching. Which a) isn't funny and b) is totally inaccurate as all birds have 2 legs. He also eludes to, 'twitchers', who are those who only really bird watch when they hear about a rare species having been spotted somewhere and go out of their way to try and see it, even if it means trespassing on people's property, etc. which gives a bad name to the reasonable, sensible community of bird watchers.

[@urseliusurgel4365]

"My name is Angus Prune and this is my tune, it goes: I - S - I - R - T - A I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again!"

[@ColinGrimshaw]

For those of a certain age, it was 'the' radio programme to listen to......me included!

[@SueGarden]

Bill oddie hair 😅😅😅😅😅 0:25

[@edmund184]

Another Oxbridge man who didn't love going to Oxbridge

[@ifeelafool]

who are the others?

[@Superfantastictop10]

public school...Oxbridge...how original.

[@urseliusurgel4365]

King Edward's School, Birmingham is a 'Grammar School', it is a fee-paying day school, not really a public school as such (most public schools have mostly boarding pupils). JRR Tolkien attended it.

[@vinnygambini1]

Why is he sitting like alan partridge?

[@ColinGrimshaw]

Because he can?

[@Avidcomp]

Rather large "goodies".

[@barbarakirk3064]

He did borrow Bill's binoculars (according to the I, Partridge book).

[@barbarakirk3064]

@@Avidcomp I agree he did 'man-spread' a bit, and I noticed that in a later interview when he was with Tim and Graeme promoting the Network release of the BBC and LWT episodes on DVD. I was thinking that he sat like the grandma in The Kumars at No.42.

[@daviedovey]

“I think British television is fucking awful” - all hail!

[@jessesands4099]

Lucien Rubempre Twirp!😡

[@daviedovey]

and the people who watch it

[@geoffjoffy]

Very posh...:)

[@Meddled]

Why is his shirt always half open, even now? It's a sleazy look.

[@MrC-ov1ht]

Why do you care

[@anfo_4241]

Send us a picture, mate. Would love to pick apart your look.

[@michealhand1001]

Because it's his shirt and he,s entitled to wear it anyway he likes😂😂😂

[@davidholgate123]

This is the weirdest, most nonsensical comment, I've ever seen on KZbin and that's saying something, so well done 👍

[@MrDavey2010]

He looks such a mess! Very short tempered man & argumentative back in the day.

[@hopebgood]

Oh he is such a terrible bore isn't he? And he talks about "feelings". How disgraceful.

[@darrenharman3362]

The man has revealed in later years his battle with bi-polar depression. The fact he's made so many peoples live so much happier with his comedy and his environmental causes blows my mind. Good on you Bill. A national treasure.

[@iraceruk]

We should all judge people on how they look, shouldn't we. 🙄 'Argumentative'? I have just watched a fascinating interview/conversation with a very interesting, often funny, honest, open-minded and articulate man. Perhaps you watched it and saw what you wanted/expected to see (for some reason) and you didn't actually see and hear what was really there.

[@b17vic]

Comes with the territory of being a young MAN.

[@volvos60bloke]

Looks like he needs a jolly good bath