Orville the Duck was the puppet most often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Orville was a green duckling who wore a nappy with a large safety pin on the front. He spoke with a falsetto Yorkshire accent. 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 number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1983 and selling over 400,000 copies in total. There were two Orville puppets that Harris used, one manual and another which was a radio-controlled animatronic version. Harris died of cancer on 28 April 2015 and his agent confirmed that Orville would be retired and will never appear in public again. The puppet was left to Harris' long-time friend, ventriloquist and guild member Steve Hewlett, who subsequently donated it to the Grand Order of Water Rats Museum.