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| Slapstick 2009 Festival with Tim & Graeme |
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 Here's some early information about the Slapstick 2009 Festival from
www.slapstick.org.uk. Tim & Graeme are schedule to appear at the festival again this year.
Slapstick returns for its fifth year to bring laughter to Bristol just when we need it most. At this year's festival we present some of the world's funniest silent comedies, brought to life by an unprecedented line-up of special guests. Paul Merton is back once again as the inimitable host of Slapstick's Friday night gala at Colston Hall, presenting Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality accompanied live by the finest silent film ensemble in Europe, The Prima Vista Social Club. This year, Bristol Old Vic is delighted to play host to some of the festival's major highlights and to welcome an array of very special guests including beloved national treasure Eric Sykes and The Goodies in conversation with Phill Jupitus.
The Slapstick festival evolved from our ongoing Bristol Silents programme at Watershed and our close working relationship with Paul Merton. Our shared passion for silent films and especially silent comedy led to the first Slapstick weekend in 2005. The festival was such a success it's been an annual event ever since and it even lead to the commisioning of a BBC TV series Paul Merton's Silent Clowns screened in 2006 and 2007.
I hope you will join us at Slapstick in January and discover the wonderful world of silent comedy.
The blog at
http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/slapstick-is-here-again/ quotes a blurb from the festival as saying:
We are expecting unprecedented demand for these tickets and expect them to sell out quickly. A limited amount of priority tickets have been put aside for Bristol Silents Members and those people who purchase festival passes until 17th November and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. All Bristol Silents members and delegates will be able to purchase tickets at discounted rates.
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Posted by lisa at 13/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill Oddie book signings |
more from same (The Goodies) |
 Thanks to Euan for posting the following info in the forums. Let us know if you spot any further signings or appearances!
Bill will be signing copies of his book at several Waterstone's next month
Bill Oddie Book Signing
Bill Oddie
One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg
WATERSTONE'S ST ALBANS
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Come and meet BILL ODDIE who will be here to sign copies of his autobiography in which he shares the highs and lows of his life as comedian and wildlife presenter.
Further details: 01727 834966
Meet Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie
One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg
WATERSTONE'S BRISTOL GALLERIES
Friday, 14 November 2008, 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Come and meet Bill Oddie, the nations favourite twitcher. Known most recently for BBC's Springwatch, Bill Oddie's fascinating life is told with his usual wit and offbeat humour in this fantastic autobiography.
Further details: 0117 925 2274
Meet Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie
One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg
WATERSTONE'S BATH
Friday, 14 November 2008, 5:30PM
Come and meet Bill Oddie, the star of Springwatch and Britain's best-known birdwatcher will be in store to sign his autobiography that is as witty, candid and unconventional as the man himself. Tales of tandems, broadway, the BBC banned list, George Martin and of course birdwatching await you!
Further details: 01225 448 515
Come & Meet Bill Oddie
Bill Oddie
One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg
WATERSTONE'S YEOVIL
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 12:30PM
We are proud to welcome Bill Oddie to the store, he'll be signing copies of his autobiography, One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest.
Further details: 01935 479832
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayDetailEvent.do?searchType=1&author=Bill|Oddie
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Posted by lisa at 02/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| ISIHAC repeats return to BBC Radio 7 (plus other upcoming shows) |
more from same (British Comedy) |
Here's a list of upcoming tv & radio shows of interest to Goodies fans. "(NEW)" indicates shows added since the last update (some of which may be repeats). It's advisable to check your local listings for schedule changes.
Feel free to let us know about anything that should be added to the list - contributions & corrections are always welcome! (Thanks to everyone who's been helping with the spottings!)
* Mon-Thurs through Nov 6 - "Autumnwatch" with Bill Oddie returns for a new series of live shows on BBC 2 at 20:00.
(NEW) * Sun, 2 Nov - "Chairman Humph - A Tribute" will be repeated on BBC Radio 7 at noon (then again later in the day at 5pm and 5am). It can be heard online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; repeats will be available for a week after broadcast. Here's a description from BBC Radio 7's newsletter, "For over 30 years Humphrey Lyttelton entertained Radio 4 listeners as chairman of the enduringly popular "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". In an affectionate tribute broadcast shortly after Humph's death, Stephen Fry presents this homage in conversation with close friends and admirers. The programme includes highlights from 'Clue'."
(NEW) * Thursdays starting 6 Nov - "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" repeats return to BBC Radio 7. The first repeat is from January 1989 with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton. The show will be available online from www.bbc.co.uk/radio7; repeats will be available for a week after broadcast.
(NEW) * Fri, 7 Nov - "Green Balloon Club" on CBeebies at 16:00 is scheduled to include an appearance by Bill. The episode will be repeated Sun, 9 Nov at 09:00. Here's a listing: "Lily-Rose and friends travel Great Britain in a green hot air balloon hearing stories from children. As part of the Autumnwatch season Green Balloon Club team are having a good look at Autumn - how the leaves change colour and whether it is possible to preserve their lovely shades. Jelly pays a visit to Bill Oddie and finds out what's happening in his bird boxes at this time of year. Starring: Isabella Blake-Thomas, Adam Wells".
(NEW) * Sat, 8 Nov - the first series of "What the Dickens?" (in which Tim is one of the team captains) is being repeated on Sky Arts from 4:00-7:00pm (thanks to wackywales for spotting this). The second series of the show then begins on Weds, 12 November. While Tim is not returning as a team captain, Graeme will appear as a panelist in one episode.
Use the "click here fore more" link below to see the rest of the list.
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Posted by lisa at 01/11/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Bill to appear at Bridport Literary Festival on Nov. 15th |
more from same (The Goodies) |
Bill Oddie will be attending the Bridport Literary Festival on Saturday, November 15; he will be reading from his recently published autobiography, "One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg".
The Festival's website is at
http://www.bridport-arts.com/bridport-literary-festival
Here is an article about the event (from http://www.thisishampshire.net/leisure/onstage/3807474.Top_authors_line_up_for_literary_festival/)
Top authors line up for Bridport literary festival 8:36am Friday 31st October 2008
By Ruth Meech
BILL Oddie, Michael Dobbs, Ann Leslie and Jonathan Dimbleby are just some of the popular authors descending on Dorset as part of this year's Bridport Literary Festival.
The 10-day series of talks and performances ties in with the world-famous Bridport Prize, which this year attracted thousands of entries from 80 countries around the globe.
There are categories for poetry and short stories and the winners will be announced at a special lunch in Bridport Town Hall on Saturday, November 8.
Many of the festival events take place in Bridport, although the beautiful Eype Church Centre for the Arts also plays a prominent role as a festival venue.
The event opens with a talk and readings by Antony Hitchens whose father, Lieutenant Commander Robert Hitchens, was a leading figure in gunboat warfare during the Second World War.
It will be followed by the finale of this year's Big Read event. It was to have featured last year's winner Graham Mort, but ill health means he will be unable to attend.
Instead, local writers will read and discuss his winning tale, The Prince.
Other events include a workshop with the winner of this year's poetry prize and the chance to see Bridport Prize patron Fay Weldon advise aspiring writers how to get started.
Former Dorset authors Rory MacLean and Michael Dobbs are also scheduled to chat about their latest books and past experiences, while writers currently living in the county - Christopher Stocks, Paul Atterbury and Jason Goodwin
- will also be on hand.
Festival director Tanya Bruce-Lockhart said: "A great many of our speakers are non-fiction writers. When they speak they have a huge enthusiasm and knowledge about their chosen subject. But then you have someone like Jason Goodwin who combines history in his fiction as well.
"He studied the Ottoman and Byzantium empires at Cambridge and then found that writing whodunnits set in those times was a good way of feeding stories to his growing brood of children.
"Rory MacLean is another one. He is a consummate traveller who writes almost in the vernacular." A late arrival to the festival's impressive roster of speakers is everyone's favourite naturalist and Goodie, Bill Oddie.
He will be at Bridport Arts centre at 7.30pm on Saturday, November 15 and will be reading from his recent autobiography, One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Egg.
"We all love Bill Oddie as a Goodie and as the thinking man's naturalist, and we are very lucky to have him at the festival," said Tanya. "But then you see him on a programme such as Who Do You Think You Are and you find that a lot of people who appear light-hearted on the surface can have sadness and depression in their life.
"Bill's talk will be finding out about the other side of him, which I think will be fascinating."
Bridport Literary Festival runs for 10 days and involves the whole community. It is sponsored by Kitson and Trotman solicitors and Waterstones, while the Bull Hotel is acting as the festival meeting place and bar. For full details call Bridport Arts Centre on 01308 424204, pick up a brochure or log on to the website at www.bridport-arts.com
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Posted by lisa at 31/10/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Telegraph "Autumnwatch" article |
more from same (Bill's Nature Shows) |
 The following article appears in today's Telegraph; it is available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/30/nosplit/bvtvautumnwatch30.xml
Autumnwatch
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 30/10/2008
Robert Collins spends the day with Bill Oddie and Kate Humble on the set of Autumnwatch
Bill Oddie is looking through his binoculars and using pornography as an analogy for his approach to nature. “Someone once described the difference between me and David Attenborough as being that if his programmes were Playboy centrefolds, mine were readers’ wives.” Oddie chuckles, gleeful at the comparison. “I’ve always tried to show people what they can see. David’s programmes show them what they’ll never see [in person].”
To prove his point, the home of the current series of Autumnwatch, BBC2’s live nature series on seasonal change that Oddie presents with his co-anchor Kate Humble, is Brownsea Island. Owned by the National Trust and run by the Dorset Wildlife Trust, the island is open to the public. It’s a small, secluded haven of wildlife, including Japanese sika deer, which frames one side of Poole harbour. Today there are some 500 visitors walking round it, tripping over the frolicking population of more than 200 red squirrels, whose survival on the island has been helped by the fact that no grey squirrel has ever set a pox-ridden paw here.
Bill Oddie and Kate Humble birdwatch on Dorset's Brownsea Island
Oddie and Humble are taking a rare quiet moment on the new series’s second day of live broadcast to sit in the National Trust’s hide and watch a flock of wading avocets who have come to winter in Brownsea’s lagoon. Humble enthusiastically endorses Oddie’s policy of nature for all. “The programme has put wildlife and people together,” she beams. “Wildlife doesn’t have to be shut away behind great gates or hedges. You can all go and enjoy this stuff.”
As he sits in the hut, Oddie’s eyes barely leave the island’s avian visitors. “Look at the lagoon: the spoonbills are back!” he exclaims. Humble clucks proudly: “The lovely thing about Bill is that he knows and loves this place.” Oddie’s love of the island, in fact, was instrumental in making it the new base of Autumnwatch, after two years broadcasting from Martin Mere in Lancashire (its sister programme Springwatch has been based in Devon and Norfolk). Sixty-seven-year-old Oddie first visited Brownsea Island when he was a teenager in the Fifties. “There’s something infectious about being with someone who can put things into context and say, ‘Well, you know, when I was a lad,’” says Humble, 41. To which Oddie wryly adds: “Yes. It makes you feel younger, Kate.”
Autumnwatch was watched by 3.8million viewers on the new series’s first night on Monday — a feat for a programme showing at the same time as EastEnders. With Humble and Oddie presenting from Brownsea, the show also shows live reports from Simon King, who has been following the Fallow deer rut at Petworth House in West Sussex this year, and wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan, who is currently embedded with a colony of grey seals on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumbria. In Monday’s broadcast Buchanan’s transmission was lost — partly because, Buchanan’s transmitter, due to space constraints, is no bigger than a suitcase.
All around Brownsea Island, in the lead-up to transmission, the production crew of 60 dashes around, preparing a slate of pre-recorded shots for the evening’s broadcast. One of the show’s three wildlife cameramen films coal tits hovering in mid-air, using a slow-motion camera that can shoot at 1,000 frames per second. Another, Joe Charlesworth, refines the assault course that he has concocted to test the red squirrels’ intelligence. His latest addition: a tightrope fashioned from pink bungee cord. “Now we just need some squirrels,” he says. Nearly an hour later, the squirrels emerge from nearby woods and begin to test the course (see picture, left). None dare the high wire.
Stephen Moss, the show’s series producer, describes the appeal of broadcasting live as being about, “the uncertainty of what the animals are going to do.” That and the uncertainty of whether Buchanan’s transmission will reach them tonight. As they go on air, Buchanan’s tiny transmitter at last obliges. And, in the programme’s last moments, while items are reshuffled to allow the show to end precisely on time, King manages to capture a Fallow buck rutting with a doe at Petworth House. With perfect televisual timing, the process only takes a second.
Autumnwatch is on tonight on BBC2 at 8.00pm and next week, Mon-Thurs
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Posted by lisa at 30/10/2008 00:00 GMT |
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| Beyond the Vortex / Feedback / repeat of Humph tribute |
more from same (British Comedy) |
Thanks to wackywales and bushbaby for pointers to these two shows (which are available from Listen Again) in the www.goodiesruleok.com forums
1. wackywales said, "People might be interested to listen to the first ten minutes of last Friday's Feedback (a radio 4 program that talks about that weeks radio and any controversial shows) as it's talking about I've Never Seen Star Wars. Bill Dare (the producer) is defending the program and there's quite a bit of discussion about Tim buying pornography and Bill talks a bit about how this came about. It should be available on listen again until Friday." The show can be heard from the Listen Again link at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/feedback.shtml
2. The Doctor Who adventure "Max Warp" with Graeme aired on BBC Radio 7 yesterday (Listen again available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f676q). bushbuby pointed us to the show "Beyond the Vortex", a behind the scenes look at "Max Warp" by director Barnaby Edwards, saying there's a big chunk about Graeme in the show (and that Barnaby is a Goodies fan!). "Beyond the Vortex is available from Listen Again from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f68gg
3. Coming up on BBC Radio 7 (www.bbc.co.uk/radio7) this coming Sunday, Nov. 2nd at noon, a repeat of "Chairman Humph, A Tribute". This tribute, narrated by Stephen Fry and including contributions from Tim & Graeme (among others), aired earlier in the year on BBC Radio 4. The show is scheduled for at noon (with repeats later in the day)
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