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1979: Will Polly the RUDE PARROT ever sing? | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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4:34Now PlayingPatience is a virtue.
Mrs Telford of Whitehaven has spent ten long years teaching Polly - her slightly sweary parrot - how to sing Nellie Dean. Getting the uncooperative Polly to perform the song in front of Tony Baker and his Nationwide camera crew, however, is quite another matter. Perhaps they'll get the take in another ten years...
WARNING: This clip features a parrot using very mild swear words... and drinking beer.
Originally broadcast 10 July, 1979.
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