Birding with Bill Oddie (1998)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 18 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Bill Oddie takes viewers on birdwatching trips around the United Kingdom. He talks about the birds he sees in a natural unscripted way.

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What happens

Birding with Bill Oddie is a British TV programme, about natural history, presented by Bill Oddie. Three series and eighteen episodes were made, which ran from 21 February 1997 to 31 March 2000 on BBC Two. Birding with Bill Oddie was only loosely scripted and a lot of Bill's dialogue was spontaneous – he would start to talk and the cameraman would film him. The reason that the viewer almost feels that they are in the hide or on the site with Bill, is that video was used rather than film. It was the first show in the Bill Oddie wildlife trilogy series. The others were Bill Oddie Goes Wild and Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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