with Desmond Morris and Sarah Kennedy
Budgies are the most popular household pets in Britain, easily outnumbering dogs or cats. But how can you teach one to talk? And who makes the best teacher? Today, in Yorkshire, Desmond explores the biggest budgie show in the world.
Out on the Dales, Sarah has a date with a gypsy caravan. She meets the ponies which helped to roof Westminster, the pets which could be honorary members of the miners' union and the dogs which bowled over
Freddie Trueman.
From all over the county of the white rose, animal lovers join in a pilgrimage to the place Horace Walpole called 'the sublime palace' - Castle Howard. Research
POLLY PHILLIPS , ALISON FORSYTH Director KATE KINNINMONT Producer IAN CHRISTIE Editor DAVID MARTIN BBC Scotland
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