news items from Bill's 12 June interview on BBC WM (Birmingham)
13/06/2008 00:00 GMT

Posted by lisa

Here are a few news tidbits Bill mentioned during his interview yesterday morning on BBC WM:

  - They will be doing Autumnwatch this year. 

  - The BBC has already green lighted Springwatch 2009.

  - Bill claimed the fuss about his "smutty" remarks on Springwatch this year was the result of the Daily Mail making an issue out of only three such complaints on the BBC Message Boards (though once the story got picked up by other papers other complaints were posted).

  - Bill said he's finally started writing his autobiography, which he's been putting off doing for some time.  A listing for the book popped up on Amazon.co.uk a few months ago
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Autobiography-Bill-Oddie/dp/0340951923/) with a September 2008 publication date.