Interviews · 27 October 2022
Bill Bailey Saving an owl from being eaten
Bill Bailey interviewed by Kevin Durham, 27 October 2022. 1m 39s on tape.
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0:01 town in southeastern China and in this restaurant there were various creatures in the window that were on sale but then we realized that actually they were on sale to eat. So they were part of the you know the You mean not chickens and Rather than the yes usually you have a few prawns and maybe a crab or a lobster but this was this was snakes and civet cats and salamanders and and and then in a cage Oh it's Bill. In a cage was a an owl and which turned out to be a Eurasian eagle owl which is very large the largest of all the owls um but I mean they're not endangered but there's certainly you think what the hell's this doing in a in a restaurant menu.
0:47 So we had a bit of a discussion with them and we bought the owl. You bought the owl. And after much they charge? It was about $400 I think we paid US dollars yeah. And and then we um They they sellotaped it up and put it in a cardboard box and handed it to us and we got in a taxi and That must be one angry owl. drove up it was really really angry. Honestly I've never known a thing to be so so cross. And so anyway that's good because it was a wild it was a wild animal so we took it out into the woods and let it go. Wow fantastic. And what would that feel like that must have been amazing It was we were standing cheering like in the dusk. For a second when I walked in I thought that was the
1:28 owl but that Well that actually Eurasian eagle owl actually yeah but it's not that's that isn't the one. That'll be a very weird Things things have got it wrong for that Yeah was it quite a rescue attempt?
