Keith Harris (ventriloquist) one child. Harris had his spleen removed and chemotherapy after a cancer diagnosis in 2013. He subsequently returned to work. The cancer returned in 2014 and he died on 28 April 2015, at the age of 67 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Keith Harris (ventriloquist) Keith Shenton Harris (21 September 1947 – 28 April 2015) was an English ventriloquist, best known for his television show "The Keith Harris Show" (1982–90), audio recordings, and club appearances with his puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. He had a UK Top 10 hit single in 1982 with "Orville's Song" which reached number
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