Tag: Bill Oddie

One Flew into the Cuckoo’s Egg

One Flew into the Cuckoo’s Egg

by Bill Oddie (Hodder & Stoughton, 2008)

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Bill Oddie’s autobiography largely omits both birdwatching and The Goodies, preferring instead Oddie’s rather bleak childhood and pre-celebrity years (an engaging reminiscence by someone who’s come to terms with his demons), then his post-celebrity battles with depression (detailed honestly and without self-pity).

 

Doctor Who and the Pirates

Doctor Who and the Pirates

by Jacqueline Rayner (Big Finish, 2003)

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A bizarre audio drama, featuring an explicitly unreliable narrator (the story’s telling is itself the mystery) and Bill Oddie in gleeful Ecky Thump pirate mode. The third quarter sees Colin Baker and Co. drop into a full-on musical of the high seas.