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) North West England. "Travels with Pevsner" is a BBC Four series, an episode of which involved Grundy visiting places visited by Nikolaus Pevsner during his ambitious review of English architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. From 2010 John Grundy has presented a regular series for 'Look North' called 'Grundy's North', aired from BBC North East and Cumbria 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