Orville the Duck Orville the Duck Orville the Duck was the most famous puppet often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Orville is a green duckling who wears nothing but a nappy with a large safety pin on the front. He speaks with a falsetto voice. Orville appeared on BBC television from 1982 to 1990 on "The Keith Harris Show", which featured assorted puppets such as Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. At the peak of their popularity in December 1982, Harris and Orville released the single "Orville's Song", reaching
John Grundy (television presenter) John Grundy (television presenter) John Grundy (born 1946 in Carlisle, Cumberland) is a television presenter and author. His work mainly features North East England. Strongly influenced by reading Nikolaus Pevsner's "The Buildings of England", architectural review of the country, Grundy has taught at north-east schools since 1970. In the late 1980s he worked for the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission before beginning a more widely recognised career as an architecture writer and television presenter, especially in Northern England. He is a retired lecturer of English Literature at South Tyneside College. John Grundy does live commentaries aboard the Shields Ferry, which