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Bill Oddie on BBC1's Sunday Morning Live 19/10/14

Terry WigonTerry Wigon Posts: 6,831
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Is anyone watching Bill on BBC1's Sunday Morning Live discussion show now? He's giving good value for money with his 'Oddie' comments on UK immigration policy; companies offering women the 'perk' of freezing their eggs; and the re-introduction of wolves into an estate in the Scotland. :)

I think It would be good to see him a bit more regularly on TV, although I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. He gives his honest and unfettered opinions (often without thinking) and is a departure from many of the slick presenters proliferating TV shows nowadays. It would be good to have him back on a nature programme of some kind but I'm guessing that producers think he is a bit 'high risk' and wouldn't want him presenting 'live' as he can be a bit of a loose cannon.

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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,249
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    His shirt buttons are under some serious strain.
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    Hyram FyramHyram Fyram Posts: 3,389
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    Him and Chris Packham ought to find a nice cave somewhere, surrounded by Disney animals, so they can sit there by a camp fire, exchanging views about how horrible human beings are.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,031
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    Terry Wigon wrote: »
    Is anyone watching Bill on BBC1's Sunday Morning Live discussion show now? He's giving good value for money with his 'Oddie' comments on UK immigration policy; companies offering women the 'perk' of freezing their eggs; and the re-introduction of wolves into an estate in the Scotland. :)

    I think It would be good to see him a bit more regularly on TV, although I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. He gives his honest and unfettered opinions (often without thinking) and is a departure from many of the slick presenters proliferating TV shows nowadays. It would be good to have him back on a nature programme of some kind but I'm guessing that producers think he is a bit 'high risk' and wouldn't want him presenting 'live' as he can be a bit of a loose cannon.

    I thought he was a disgrace. Obviously he doesn't see the impact of immigration living in leafy Hampstead.

    Typical champagne socialist.
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    thomscnthomscn Posts: 892
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    Hyram Fyram wrote: »
    Him and Chris Packham ought to find a nice cave somewhere, surrounded by Disney animals, so they can sit there by a camp fire, exchanging views about how horrible human beings are.


    Like you for instance >:(
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    Hyram FyramHyram Fyram Posts: 3,389
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    thomscn wrote: »
    Like you for instance >:(

    Oh how wounding. Go feed a pigeon. (I'd add a smilie but I'm a grown up.)
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    Terry WigonTerry Wigon Posts: 6,831
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    Geoff_Mack wrote: »
    I thought he was a disgrace. Obviously he doesn't see the impact of immigration living in leafy Hampstead.

    Typical champagne socialist.

    A disgrace? Why did you think that? Was it because his comments did not agree with your opinions and/or because of the way he delivered his argument? I don't know too much about his political beliefs so can't comment on his 'socialist' leanings.
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    Terry Wigon wrote: »
    A disgrace? Why did you think that? Was it because his comments did not agree with your opinions and/or because of the way he delivered his argument? I don't know too much about his political beliefs so can't comment on his 'socialist' leanings.

    It was that he insulted people who had a different view from his but didn't acknowledge that living in Hampstead, he has a very different experience from "the masses".
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    gkmaccagkmacca Posts: 9,386
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    I remember Oddie did some programme a few years ago about learning to play the guitar. One of the things it required him to do was go to the Royal Academy of Music. He stopped outside the sign and was clearly desperate to show how 'edgy' and radical he was. Completely wound up. He pointed at the sign and said, 'Huh, yeah, these words are just what I'm against: "Royal," yeah, I'm a republican, yeah, totally against that institution, yeah...' Then he moved on: 'Academy...er...well, education...okay, I went to Cambridge, er, I'm for that...' Then on again: 'Music...well, obviously...' Then he seemed not to know how to go on. Typical of him. I know he gets depressed, but I've seen that sort of thing so often - he builds himself up to a rant and then has to unleash it, even when there's no justification whatsover. I don't dislike him at all but he needs to be used quite wisely.

    Aside from that, I agree with Hyram, when Oddie and Packham resort to that lazy generalisation about how ALL humans are appalling and animals are so superior, well, it's childish nonsense, and it IS worthy of criticism. That sort of 'us and them' demonology is of no value and deserves criticism. If you want to criticise the treatment of animals, then name names, specify groups, institutions and companies. That's radical. Just ranting about 'orrible 'umans, well, that's just patronising tosh, especially as they seem to be exempting themselves, and themselves alone, from their criticism.
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