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
Richard Jobson (television presenter) Richard Jobson (television presenter) Richard Jobson (born 6 October 1960) is a Scottish filmmaker (director, writer, producer) who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of Skids. Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy, and grew up in Crosshill, Ballingry, Fife, the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard, attending St Columba's Roman Catholic High School, Dunfermline. Jobson is the lead singer with the art-punk rock group Skids. Jobson's singing style with Skids was highly distinctive, and he wrote the lyrics, while Stuart Adamson wrote most of the music. "Scared to Dance", the