While budgies and parrots might be known for their powers of speech, this particular bird takes his grasp of English to a whole new level. In fact Disco the budgie – one of the stars of the BBC’s new ...

If you’d tuned into the BBC on this day in 1958, you’d have come across something quite remarkable - Sparkie the talking budgie. But if, like my own childhood pet budgies, yours didn’t utter a dicky ...