{"id":570698,"date":"2026-07-27T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:02:08","slug":"bill-oddie-comedian-who-found-nature-a-welcome-refuge-from-mental-illness-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/570698\/","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\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxNQTh6REFmX1dGQk9QcUIySG9xUlczV1dSdW9PWWxtVENvUWN6NWg1YnBJRmVyODJ4Nl9rSmRtaXpTc2lKMHBHbFVXQWx3X3F5cktEb1dZN1o2TVd1T3lsTTNBM21iVDF2NFJFc0tidk53Zk1FSlYyNHVQVVlxUnlZbUR4XzhZZ2h3NW5iZGhCbG9YRU1VV1F2X3FEejBfT1ZuaHZ0ODhB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildlife presenter and Goodies star Bill Oddie dies aged 85<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<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\/CBMilAFBVV95cUxOWVhldEZ4MG1LSEM5cHZkVTNWU0Iyc2JpdTdPdXV3dktZOUtLYW9tOFZXMDdqeUFzRlpkNlhWeWlFcmRVLWRSRE5SVDVfaTRSRm1BUWFzY3dYZEYzZE9JMWdxUFoxVmpsbnBnVjJ3b25tLTZzT2gxTm52NGNmemxXWkxLVWcteFlkX0pYVWtfenBSSWMw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie \u2013 a life in pictures<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxQWDliV19wM21LUXZzRFRUcG9yaDRmSTkwSUxSR0hFNFJiS0N5YnN0dEpBRnlOQ2kyWnAzX2VRUkhnN2F0OXV3eWFvUER0ZllEMUM5YXNpYzRQeTZMLVhCQkpRVkdKalA5aUFPNUZBRW1kRXpjWlhfRzFiVVBWelZxWGtaSXhYQ2xBeU4zak14UzZIcFRORkwyT29DeGlzQ1B4WmlZeDVyY3B0QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Oddie obituary: Anarchic comedian and member of The Goodies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Oddie: Comedian who found nature a welcome refuge from mental illness&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCWildlife presenter and Goodies star Bill Oddie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-570698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}