Bill Oddie

We've just lost, of course, this year, one of the big, big players in the bird watching world, Michael, in Mr.

Bill Oddie.

Mm.

He was a very famous bird watcher.

Right.

Bill Oddie.

You did

an

[both laughing]

Bill Oddie phoned for you today.

[laughs] Mr.

B. Oddie.

[laughs] I thought it was-

This isn't a crank phone call.

This is Bill Oddie.

[laughs]

Two people that will surprise you because they wouldn't be suitable for it, but I think they're both examples of two presenters who do shows about niche things, and they're so brilliant and passionate that they make it bigger than the niche.

And that is, uh, uh, Chris Packham with his nature stuff and, uh, Bill Oddie with the...

I think Bill Oddie could have done it.

I think, um, uh, what's his face? Baldrick, who did the archeology stuff.

Tony Robinson.

[laughs]

Jermaine Greer and Bill Oddie.

Uh-

Oh, I'm not gonna tell you that I did it now 'cause I am nowhere near a proper celebrity [laughs].

Uh, and I knew enough about the films to assume that the questions wouldn't be too...

Celebrity Mastermind, I thought they'd not be too hard.

So yes, I did get all, all the celebrity one, but then I, I was beaten by Bill Oddie-

Wow

This is on Oddie News, so it might not be real.

Yeah, Bill Oddie's reporting.

[laughs]

[laughs] On the same website, Oddie News, a birthday woman, so she's 47 years old, goes into the garden-

I...

You've since taught me more about hedgehogs than Bill Oddie.

You know, the, the, the focus element of what you guys do was all important then, and things like this is why.

Uh, so that's one reason I said yes to every job.

[laughs]

So I was thinking recently, I would've loved to be able to go birdwatching with Bill Oddie, actually.

I was just thinking about him.

Yeah.

alright

yeah well they're twitchers they're big fans of Bill Oddie they were just in the middle of the night trying to see nocturnal birds all got binoculars is that what they were into was it Well, I suppose that's the state of affairs on the morning of Tuesday the 29th.

Odd.

little bit odd okay i guess there will just more will come out over the coming days all right well let's move on labour split on prospect of ending triple lock uh move under consideration to fund social care so there's the labour party conference at the moment uh no stone and burnham is set to do a big speech today where he's going to unveil his vision for britain That's frustrating isn't it? Well a little more than frustrating in fact a great deal more than frustrating that you've got a man