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| Bill at "Wild About the Wensum" 19 May / Bill to host new online children's show |
more from same (Bill's Nature Shows) |
 Bill will be appearing at the Pensthorpe Conservation Trust's environmental awareness day "Wild About the Wensum" tomorrow (Saturday, 19 May). At the event, he will launch his new online TV show aimed at children, 'Bill and Daisy's Wild World' whose goal will be to help bring families closer to animals, plants and insects.
Here are more details about the event from http://www.pensthorpe.com/events/index.php?eventId=206
Wild About the Wensum
Saturday, 19th May 2012
10:00am - 17:00pm
Hosted by Pensthorpe Conservation Trust
FREE ENTRY TO EVENT AND RESERVE £4.00 parking charge
Bill Oddie is Wild About the Wensum!
http://www.facebook.com/WildAboutTheWensum Keep up to date with proceedings on the events Face book page
This great environmental awareness event is back. Fun packed day with lots of things to see and do. Activities on the day are based around the Wensum Valley and especially our nominated species for this year - the dragonfly. Money raised on the day will be put towards creating habitats for this species along the valley.
Learn more about the environment we live in!
Download our 'How to make a Wensum Dragonfly' build one yourself and bring it along on the day to see if you can win a Child and Adult membership to Pensthorpe for a Year!
A popular environmental awareness day, 'Wild About the Wensum,' will launch with the support of Bill Oddie and his new puppet friend Daisy, whose aim is to get children to engage with nature.
The annual event taking place on 19th May 2012 gives visitors an inspiring insight into the rich wildlife and fauna that is found in the Wensum River Valley. Passionate about Pensthorpe, Bill Oddie will return to the Reserve to meet visitors and launch his new online TV show aimed at children, 'Bill and Daisy's Wild World' - which shares the event's values of bringing families closer to animals, plants and insects.
Bill Oddie said: 'Pensthorpe is one of my favourite places in Britain to see wildlife, wander through gardens, enjoy tame birds, learn about conservation, and to make TV programmes. I am proud to say that it was my suggestion that the BBC migrated from Devon to Norfolk for Springwatch and remained at Pensthorpe for a couple of years. It is owned and run by lovely people, and does great cakes and sandwiches'.
This year the Wild About the Wensum event focuses on Dragonflies and hopes to raise money towards renovation of Dragonfly ponds on a local Common. Activities on the day will include bird identification sessions with local experts, a human fruit machine, nature quizzes, archery, face painting, dragonfly crafts, a hog roast and BBQ.
Kirsty Willingham, the events organiser at Pensthorpe says: 'This day is full of enjoyment and education, so having Bill and Daisy on hand to learn and explore with our visitors will bring a fantastic new dimension to this annual event. It's also a great opportunity to celebrate the natural history and heritage of the Wensum Valley'.
Daisy, who is a four year old 'nature bug' said: 'I've heard so much about Pensthorpe but I have never been before. I can't wait to explore the grounds and enjoy all the fun at the Wild About the Wensum event'.
Admission to Pensthorpe and the event is free on the day, with a nominal £4 parking charge per vehicle to help make it financially sustainable and to encourage car sharing.
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Posted by lisa at 18/05/2012 16:47 GMT |
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| ask Bill Oddie a question |
more from same (Bill's Nature Shows) |
Bill Oddie's Bird Food Recipes is offering another chance to ask Bill a question. Here are the details, from this website:
http://billoddiesbirdfood.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/its-time-to-askbilloddie-a-question-what-would-you-like-to-know-about-birds-nature-or-bill/
It's time to #AskBillOddie a question. What would you like to know about birds, nature or Bill? Get your question on the list before 5 o'clock, May 14, and he might be recording a personal reply to you via YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/billoddiesbirdfood
Do you have a question you'd like to ask Bill Oddie? Would you like to know more about migrant birds, or ask why Bill thinks the humble House Sparrow has declined rapidly since the 1970s?
Perhaps you'd like to know the best way to attract more birds? Or why what can be done to help Starlings recover from a 79% population decline? Maybe you'd like to know if it's wise to feed birds in summer? Which - of course - it is! Perhaps you have a more personal question for Bill - what was it like to be in the Goodies!? When's he next on tour? We can't guarantee they'll all get answered - but we'll do our best to get as many answered as we can.
In January Bill answered over 20 questions and - weather dependent - we'll try for the same amount in May. To get you in the spirit why not take a look at last year's questions at
http://billoddiesbirdfood.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/its-time-to-askbilloddie-a-question-get-yours-on-the-list-before-february-7/. The link next to the A: (answer) will whisk you away to YouTube where you'll see Bill's answer on the Bill Oddie's Bird Food Recipes YouTube Channel.
You haven't got long to put your thinking cap on though as we're filming on May 15.
Where to add your Ask Bill Oddie questions:
* On twitter - follow us @billsbirdfood and use #AskBillOddie to ask your question
* On facebook - http://www.facebook.com/Billsbirdfood
* On YouTube - post it at http://www.youtube.com/billoddiesbirdfood
* WordPress blog - http://billoddiesbirdfood.wordpress.com/ask-bill-oddie/
Don't forget to add your name as this will be a personal reply!
So whatever the question within reason, please, #AskBillOddie is now open in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
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Posted by lisa at 09/05/2012 18:01 GMT |
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| Michael Barratt's Autobiography |
more from same (The Goodies) |
The following press release has just been issued regarding Michael Barratt's recently-released autobiography. Michael Barratt was in a number of Goodies episodes as a BBC newsreader and Nationwide presenter, including Kung Fu Kapers (where he hits his interviewee with a black pudding), Goodies Rule – OK? (where he bounces in his chair and later interviews Prime Minister Sooty) and Punky Business (where he turns punk as well) Many thanks to Anthony Harvison for the Spotted!!!
TV ICON MICHAEL BARRATT PENS 'WARTS AND ALL' AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Former print & broadcast journalist covers his glittering media career in Mr Nationwide
April 17, 2012: In a TV and radio career as eclectic as the pioneering current affairs show he's best remembered for, British broadcasting icon Michael Barratt scoured the world for scoops when journalism was still an adventure and interviewed everyone from prime ministers and public enemies to puppets and skateboarding ducks.
Now 84 and still going strong, the much-loved presenter of BBC's quirky news programme Nationwide recalls in a new 'warts and all' autobiography the roller-coaster reporting career that made him as much a household name as the myriad politicians, members of royalty, sporting heroes and celebrities he encountered for a living, and which also led to unlikely appearances in cult comedy shows and films.
"Mr Nationwide" - just released through Kaleidoscope Publishing – is packed with famous names and colourful anecdotes, and takes readers from Yorkshire-born Michael's beginnings as a cub reporter for the Sunday Mail in Glasgow right through to his most recent work in commercial video and media coaching.
A posting to Nigeria in the dying days of the British Empire led to Michael's big break with the BBC back in the UK, on the world's longest-running public affairs television programme, Panorama. Rubbing shoulders with broadcasting legend Richard Dimbleby forced the young journalist to overcome his natural shyness and do whatever it took to get the story, even if that cost him a spell or two in foreign jails.
Moving on to 24 Hours with Cliff Michelmore in the early sixties, Michael become the first reporter from the West to enter Cuba after the Castro revolution, and also undertook unnerving interviews with notorious East End gangsters such as The Kray Twins and Michael X. After cutting his teeth on these flagships shows, Michael was chosen in 1969 to launch Nationwide, the hugely-popular magazine programme that combined political discussion and consumer affairs, light entertainment and sports reporting.
At its peak Nationwide would attract an audience of up to eleven million viewers every weekday evening at 6pm, and would make Michael one of the country's biggest broadcasting personalities. During these heady years, Michael also presented shows such as Gardeners' Question Time and Songs of Praise, could be caught on crazy comedy series The Goodies interviewing Sooty and hitting people with a black pudding, or even be seen on the big screen, in films including star-studded Brit flick The Magic Christian. Indeed, the Nationwide anchor proved so popular that when he decided to leave the show in 1977, to marry his second wife, Dilys, he was sent by the BBC on a farewell tour of the UK aboard an especially-hired train.
Having lost none of his celebrated skills for sharing a story in compelling fashion, Michael uses Mr Nationwide to look back at an amazing seven-decade journalistic career with refreshing honesty,
intelligence and humour. The sometimes painfully frank account of successes and failures - both professional and personal - gives readers a fascinating insight into his incredible life and offers a rare glimpse into the workings of a media world long since vanished.
Mr Nationwide by Michael Barratt (Kaleidoscope Publishing, 110pp) is out now in paperback, priced £9.99. Visit www.kaleidoscopepublishing.co.uk
ABOUT MICHAEL BARRATT
Michael Barratt was born in Leeds in 1928. After being educated at Rossall School, an independent boys' school near Fleetwood, Lancashire, and at Paisley Grammar School in Scotland, he entered the world of journalism at 16, working for Scottish tabloid the Sunday Mail.
Following a spell on sister paper the Daily Record he moved to Nigeria to be editor of the Nigerian Citizen and to work for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. Following his return to the UK, he worked as a production journalist on several English regional newspapers including the Wolverhampton Express & Star, Wolverhampton Chronicle and Loughborugh Monitor, while also contributing to the BBC's Midlands regional current affairs magazine Scan and the BBC's African Service.
His work for the BBC led him to become a reporter on the BBC current affairs programme Panorama, then 24 Hours. He was presenter of Nationwide from 1969 to 1977 and was also chairman of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time from 1973 to 1979. He then moved to Thames TVs Reporting London and formed his own successful commercial video production company, Michael Barratt Limited, until 1997.
He has appeared, as himself, in both films and television, including the film The Magic Christian and The Goodies. In 1972 he was elected Rector of the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of several books including Michael Barratt's Complete Gardening Guide, Michael Barratt, Making the Most of the Media, and Making the Most of Retirement.
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Posted by bretta at 18/04/2012 10:52 GMT |
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| Graeme Garden interview from Radio Bristol yesterday (11 April) |
more from same (British Comedy) |
 Graeme Garden appeared on BBC Radio Bristol yesterday together with Bristol Slapstick's Chris Daniels to promote an upcoming fundraiser for the Bristol Slapstick Festival.
The interview can be heard from the BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qcfj3 (it begins with Chris at 12:12 into the show; Graeme joins at 16:11).
The fundraiser - "Stand up for Slapstick with Rory Bremner, Marcus Brigstocke and friends" will take place at Colston Hall in Bristol on the evening of Sunday, 24 June. According to the event's website, the line-up of performers "includes comedian, writer and actor Marcus Brigstocke, satirical impressionist Rory Bremner and the deliciously funny Lucy Porter rubbing shoulders with the inimitable comedian, compere and playwright Arthur Smith and one of our greatest comic writers, the unchallenged King of the One-Liner Barry Cryer. With more special guests to be confirmed, book early to avoid disapointment!"
Tickets are on sale from http://www.colstonhall.org/whatson/Event3029 or by calling Colston Hall's box office at 0117 922 3686
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Posted by lisa at 12/04/2012 15:11 GMT |
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| The Story of Slapstick- repeated Easter Monday BBC TWO |
more from same (The Goodies) |
 Thanks for Jenny_Gibbon for posting the following in the GROK forums:
The Story of Slapstick is being repeated on Easter Monday, BBC TWO at 23.00
Slapstick comedy special narrated by Miranda Hart, charting the highs and lows of physical comedy and examining the audience's love of visual humour. Featuring pies and pratfalls from over a century of comedy and entertainment programming including Monty Python, Charlie Chaplin, Morecambe and Wise and even Hole in the Wall.
From the craft of the Buster Keaton classics to the cartoon antics of The Goodies and the absurdly violent anarchy of Bottom, the genre has shifted through silent films, surrealism, sketch and sitcom, and today even filtered in to Saturday night family entertainment.
Featuring analysis from great physical gag practitioners including Vic Reeves, Mathew Horne, Reece Shearsmith, Ben Miller and Sally Phillips. A festive treat that features physical comedy both classic and contemporary, including the inappropriate manhandling of Manuel from Fawlty Towers, the roller-skating Frank Spencer epic from Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em and more funny physical pain than you can fling a Frying Pan at!
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Posted by lisa at 09/04/2012 14:45 GMT |
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