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Bill Oddie voiced Red Jasper in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio story Doctor Who and the Pirates. He also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.
Outside of Doctor Who, he is perhaps best known for his role in the British comedy television series The Goodies with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. The show ran from 1970-1980 on the BBC and 1980-1982 on ATV, when the Beeb cancelled the show the budget reportedly went to making The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tv series. After the Goodies finished the trio created, wrote and provided the voices for the tv kids cartoon series Bananaman in the mid 80's.
The trio had previously worked together with the likes of John Cleese on the BBC Radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue from the mid 1960's to the early 1970's.
In more recent times Bill has reinvented himself as one of the BBC's leading nature presenters, drawing on his love of bird watching as a child, on programmes such as Springwatch and Autumnwatch.
