{"id":829820,"date":"2026-07-27T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829820\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:36:12","slug":"bill-oddie-comedian-who-found-nature-a-welcome-refuge-from-mental-illness-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829820\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Oddie: Comedian who found nature a welcome refuge from mental illness &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5YVU9LaGhrUGlremZFSTcwOU01VmQ2M2YtbU44VURfTUozQUw3Z0l6RG9qSjlZRjBBYzJocHQ1Wm93LW53OUZPOW9ScGFmVlhwV1FXM0FsRTNzZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie: Comedian who found nature a welcome refuge from mental illness<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTFBCT24wZDZqbW9BeE1TMEYwLWU3UTRGYnNsVzZ5emhkRzZXeHNJdHZJZmlGUmlKbmN1enFMTGJzTTExWFpYcG5FSzY2aU1SWWptdXQtUjNtS2FsRmdQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie: The Goodies and Springwatch star dies at 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxOb0huN3J3U0puZUNkMHctdG9xZXBJcUxhVm5OWXlSTTJELUxQRlFmNWltWE9RQ295VXNXZnUxYWpzUS12UGhGR05UYUpfOTRsRlBGcE9rM0FROUVBR2ZUSDR2cDZZSHdwdVVhNzRNdWJaQWhubHV6M3NZcVRjQVNUazQxei1JREVuTkg3ZnBBR2k?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died aged 85, his agent said.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifEFVX3lxTE13eGM4Z2ZhZlp4ckJvZUNPZFIxYzVodHFCZXNLVWVmQzl0WWEtODZ5Qm9OVFBQcm9QRV9RR09nUXdaUFNIb19WVWpHTjlBb3ljOXhtcDJERUxpWW9PcWVBRUNFQ3VqT04xenZOSWJlQ0N2cEM3akt2dHFQYVo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie obituary<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxOTkFTMFBnSFpES2ZNa2dRLUhzTU5zclhyckMxRVNJWi13M09LcnpLYnRsejZfUjBaeXU1RTU2QTNvdEZpRzhROXVURm1GXzQ3QUtlZElIenNjd2tCZUNnMVlCWDJGWVhUemNrNVRydVowSXRxWEFJdGpjenB6THcwYU9ZR0FXYmM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie\u2019s The Goodies was comedy genius \u2013 so why did the BBC bury it?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Oddie: Comedian who found nature a welcome refuge from mental illness&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCBill Oddie: The Goodies and Springwatch star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-829820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}