0:00:02 > 0:00:05Childhood holidays. The anticipation seemed endless!
0:00:05 > 0:00:09The holiday itself? Well, it was over too quickly.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13So, in this series, I'm going to be reliving those wonderful times
0:00:13 > 0:00:15with some much-loved famous faces.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18This is a memory I will treasure!
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Every day I will be arranging a few surprises
0:00:21 > 0:00:23to transport them back in time.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Please! No?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27- Come on, Len!- Yeah!
0:00:27 > 0:00:29We'll relive the fun,...
0:00:29 > 0:00:30- A-ha!- Whoa!
0:00:30 > 0:00:31Oh no! No!
0:00:31 > 0:00:33..the games...
0:00:34 > 0:00:36..and the food of years gone by...
0:00:36 > 0:00:38That's my boyhood in a bowl.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41- Oh!- My boyhood in a bowl!
0:00:42 > 0:00:45..to find out how those holidays around the UK
0:00:45 > 0:00:49helped shape the people we know so well today.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50Tap dancing.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Aaarggh!
0:00:54 > 0:00:56So, buckle up for Holiday Of My Lifetime.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58- Close your eyes.- Yeah.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00And here we go.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08I'm on my way to meet a young lady who's been a household name
0:01:08 > 0:01:09since the mid-90s.
0:01:10 > 0:01:15She was born in Bury in Lancashire in 1976.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Here she is as a wee one. Oh! Cute as a button.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22She was a natural performer from an early age,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26training at the Oldham Theatre workshop from the age of nine.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32In 1995, she joined a certain Yorkshire soap,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35winning Best Newcomer a year later.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38Shall I Dingle-dangle more clues?
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Get it?
0:01:40 > 0:01:44A few years later, she was in the frame
0:01:44 > 0:01:48to take over from Jeremy Beadle in a certain bloopers show.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50Do you know what? She got it!
0:01:51 > 0:01:53But it was when she put on her dancing shoes
0:01:53 > 0:01:55that she won everybody's hearts,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57earning her the title
0:01:57 > 0:02:00the people's champion.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Well, if you haven't got it by now, you never will.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Here's my gorgeous friend, Lisa Riley.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11I'm on my way to pick her up in this crazy Citroen BX,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13just like the one her mum drove
0:02:13 > 0:02:15all those years ago.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20Aw! Smiley Riley! Here comes your old mate Lenny Boy!
0:02:22 > 0:02:27Lisa was born in 1976 in Bury, Lancashire,
0:02:27 > 0:02:29to Cath and Terry Riley.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Dad ran a printing business, while Mum was head of complaints
0:02:32 > 0:02:33at a travel company.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Aged just 12,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Lisa was spotted by a theatre agent
0:02:37 > 0:02:39who put her forward for acting roles.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Her big TV break came in 1995,
0:02:42 > 0:02:46aged just 19, when she was cast as brash barmaid
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50She then appeared
0:02:50 > 0:02:53on the crime comedy drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
0:02:53 > 0:02:56before turning her hand to TV presenting,
0:02:56 > 0:03:01taking You've Been Framed to audiences of 13 million.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04It wasn't long before she was gracing the Strictly dancefloor,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07where she danced her way to the semifinal.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11Since then she's become a familiar face on our TV screens,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14in dramas such as Waterloo Road and Moving On.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Today I'm taking her back
0:03:17 > 0:03:19to a special holiday of her lifetime,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22and I can't wait till she sees the car we're going in.
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Look at the car!
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Ah! No way!
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Ah! It's the same one.
0:03:32 > 0:03:37- Oh!- Lisa!- Hello, Leonard. - Give us a cuddle.- Ah!
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- You been waiting for that?! - Lovely...- Lovely to see you.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45- What do you reckon?- I can't get over it. It's like a flashback in time.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47How do they get hold of these things? It's incredible.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49I didn't think it existed.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53- To be honest, we don't let everyone know this, they're all mine.- Oh. OK.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55They're all my cars.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- I've got, you know, garages galore. - A little stash?- Yeah.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00So, where are we going?
0:04:00 > 0:04:05We are going to Bronte village, which is in Haworth.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08It's absolutely breathtaking. I think you're going to love it. Yes.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- Haworth?- Haworth, yes.- You've got to say it like...- 'Owarth!
0:04:12 > 0:04:14- Drop the aitch. 'Owarth.- 'Owarth?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17- "Or, nor, daunt gore." Go on. - Oh, no, don't go?
0:04:17 > 0:04:20You sound a bit gangsta!
0:04:20 > 0:04:23- "Or, nor, daunt gore!" - Oh, no, don't go!
0:04:24 > 0:04:28- Well, it's a progression. Yeah. - We'll go over it as we go along.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- Now, what's the year? - It's going to be 1992.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Now, I can tell you that that was the year...
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- Prince Charles and Diana split up. - Yes.
0:04:37 > 0:04:42- But, we... We are not splitting up, my darling.- No.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45We are joined at the hip.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47That's the way I like it.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57To the west of Bradford and just south of Keighley
0:04:57 > 0:04:59sits the village of Haworth,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02or 'Owarth, as our Lisa would want me to say.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04It's also known as Bronte Village,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08as it was made famous by the poets and novelists
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Charlotte, Emily, and Anne,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13collectively known as the Bronte Sisters.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16They were authors of some real literary classics,
0:05:16 > 0:05:18like Charlotte's Jane Eyre
0:05:18 > 0:05:21and Emily's Wuthering Heights, back in the 1840s.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Before any holiday begins, you must start on a journey.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33For 16-year-old Lisa Riley,
0:05:33 > 0:05:36it was a driving adventure she was already very familiar with.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42So this, actually, wasn't a holiday as such. It was a day trip?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45Yeah. It was a day trip that happened quite a lot
0:05:45 > 0:05:46throughout the year.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48It was, like, my little safe haven.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51So, what was the attraction about going to Haworth?
0:05:51 > 0:05:56- The fact that I'm such a drama queen.- Right.- As you well know, Len.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58And I've got this fairytale mind.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00And, of course, the Brontes.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02- Right.- And I love the Brontes.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07- I think, literally, in my former life, I was Emily Bronte.- Really?
0:06:07 > 0:06:12- Yes.- So, there was Emily, there was Charlotte, and who was the other?
0:06:12 > 0:06:15- And Anne. - Anne was the other one.- Yes.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19It was just, the knowledge, what they did, these three sisters.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23They had this very mysterious life and it always interests me.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26The more I read, the more I wanted to learn about them and, obviously,
0:06:26 > 0:06:28when we get there, you can see that it's there for the taking.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32- There's so much you can learn about the girls. You know?- Yeah.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35So, who would have been in the car with you?
0:06:35 > 0:06:38The normal outing in the car would be Mum driving
0:06:38 > 0:06:41and me in the passenger seat. I'm still in the passenger seat.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43- Now, at 39, I still can't drive. - Right.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46My brother and my dad were dragged along a lot of the time.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48You know, you can tell with blokes,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50they want to be at home watching the cricket.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51- Do you know what I mean?- Yeah.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54They don't want to be walking up cobbled streets, looking at culture,
0:06:54 > 0:06:56- like me and Mum do.- No.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- So, it always became a me-and-Mum thing.- Right.- I liked it that way.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02She liked the same things that I did and I like same things she did.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05- So we had great days out. - Oh, how lovely.- Yeah.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09It's an especially precious journey for Lisa,
0:07:09 > 0:07:13as in 2012 she sadly lost her mum.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16My mum was a firecracker.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20She was called Catherine. You know Catherine wheel at bonfire night?
0:07:20 > 0:07:24That's my mum. Spinning away. Big personality. Wonderful laugh.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Lit up a room.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Yeah, it literally is monkey see, monkey do with me and my mum
0:07:29 > 0:07:31and I'm proud of that.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Within my career, it was a bit like she became my PA.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37So she'd come everywhere with me when I was on tour,
0:07:37 > 0:07:38when I was filming.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- She was my backbone. You know?- Yeah. - She was brilliant.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43So, she was always there by my side and helping me
0:07:43 > 0:07:45all the time, which was great.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51For Lisa and her mum, 1992 was all about getting to Haworth,
0:07:51 > 0:07:55but there was a lot of other things going on that year, too.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Nigel Mansell became the most successful
0:08:01 > 0:08:04British Grand Prix driver of the time.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08After being crowned World Champion, he announced his retirement.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I've been driving for 30 years,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I represented England at the age of nine in karts.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Here I am, 30 years later, and, you know,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19perhaps I can say it, I think I am World Champion now.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22It was the end of an era
0:08:22 > 0:08:24for Prince Charles and Princess Diana,
0:08:24 > 0:08:27who formally announced their separation.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29Today, the couple had separate engagements,
0:08:29 > 0:08:32a pattern for the future as we now know.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34The Princess of Wales showed no sign that she knew about this
0:08:34 > 0:08:36afternoon's announcement.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Reporters tried to ask questions,
0:08:38 > 0:08:40but the Princess ignored them.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45It wasn't a great year for the Queen, either,
0:08:45 > 0:08:49as she watched fire tear through her beloved Windsor Castle,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53causing around £37 million worth of damage.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56And making it all the way to number one in the UK charts
0:08:56 > 0:08:59were American pretty boys Charles and Eddie
0:08:59 > 0:09:01with their soulful hit...
0:09:01 > 0:09:04# Look into my eyes Can't you see they're open wide?
0:09:04 > 0:09:10- # Would I lie to you, baby? Would I lie to you?- Oh, yeah!
0:09:10 > 0:09:13# Don't you know it's true Girl, I'm in love with you
0:09:13 > 0:09:15# Would I lie to you?... #
0:09:15 > 0:09:17I think that's enough of that.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19In fact we need a bit of bit of peace and quiet,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23and where better to take five than by these wonderful moors?
0:09:25 > 0:09:30- Eh?- See?- Oh!- This is proper beauty. The views and everything.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33It's the way it's, like, so completely untouched
0:09:33 > 0:09:35and they keep it that way.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I guess this is how you would have known it
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- as a young girl coming here. - Absolutely.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42Me and Mum, rather than take the motorway route,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45we'd take the scenic route, we'd pull in here, literally,
0:09:45 > 0:09:46and just sort of embrace that.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- Yeah. - Don't you find it really romantic?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51- Of course it is.- I do.
0:09:51 > 0:09:54You know, you look at this and you can understand the Brontes
0:09:54 > 0:09:58- getting that romantic feeling in their stories.- Absolutely.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00And the mystery of the moors.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03You can imagine it, a cold winter's night
0:10:03 > 0:10:07and that's what portrayed all the time. It's amazing.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10- And the lovely little farmers' cottages.- Yeah.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12And all the heather.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14That's what I was saying, like, I always envisaged
0:10:14 > 0:10:16having this basket on my arm and, like,
0:10:16 > 0:10:18running through the heather and everything.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20- It'd be fantastic.- Yeah.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23And you pray that it's, obviously, going to stay like this forever.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27Well, why wouldn't it? Who would want to come along and spoil it?
0:10:27 > 0:10:29Because it's just perfect.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Patrick and Mariah Bronte moved to Haworth
0:10:39 > 0:10:42with their daughters in the early 19th century.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44At that time, it was unthinkable
0:10:44 > 0:10:47that the sisters could become published authors.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49But they had other ideas.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52Johnnie Briggs knows all things Bronte.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55They're middle-class clergyman's daughters.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57They have to earn a living
0:10:57 > 0:11:00and the living that's open to them is to be a governess.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03So it's when they come together in 1845
0:11:03 > 0:11:07and make the decision that they are going to take their own place
0:11:07 > 0:11:09in the world, through their own creativity
0:11:09 > 0:11:12and writing stories and selling them for profit.
0:11:12 > 0:11:16In order for them to take their place in the commercial world -
0:11:16 > 0:11:19the world belonging to men - they had to use pseudonyms.
0:11:19 > 0:11:24They had names of Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26They never said they were men,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29but that world will always assume that they are men.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32It is the moors, this wonderful landscape,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35that is the wild workshop of their imagination.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39It's the elemental forces of nature that rage around
0:11:39 > 0:11:41this wonderful landscape
0:11:41 > 0:11:44that become the backdrop to the characters and stories.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53When the Brontes first moved to Haworth in the 1820s,
0:11:53 > 0:11:56they lived here in a building called The Parsonage.
0:11:56 > 0:12:01It's now a museum dedicated to all things Bronte,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04and is the first place to go for any Bronte fan.
0:12:04 > 0:12:08It was top of Lisa's list when she came here, back in '92.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Oh-ho! Lisa!
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Oh, look! See, it's how I remember it.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16Oh, it's just amazing.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- It's hard to imagine that they would have been in this garden.- I know.
0:12:19 > 0:12:24- You know? It's just... - Oh, look!- Incredible.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- Sir, could I align you in, please? - Never!- Come on, sir.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Please, enter the house. - Catherine, please.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Oh, thank you, sir.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Love it!
0:12:32 > 0:12:34The Parsonage has been lovingly restored
0:12:34 > 0:12:37to how it would have been when the Brontes lived here.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41They've even got the original furniture the family used.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43The dining room is usually cordoned off,
0:12:43 > 0:12:48but I've managed to pull a few strings to get us special access.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49So, this is the dining room.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52The Bronte sisters must have sat here.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Well, in that chair. - I know. I can't believe I'm here.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56As a kid, I stood behind the barriers,
0:12:56 > 0:12:58like, never being allowed to even go near.
0:12:58 > 0:13:02Now I'm sat at the table where the girls would have written everything.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05- It's amazing. - Well, contain yourself.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07There something else just going to come in.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- Oh-ho!- Oh, Len!
0:13:11 > 0:13:13The first edition Wuthering Heights.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15This is normally in a cabinet and they're here.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17I really want to touch them.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Well, you can't. You can look at them.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- So, look, we've got Wuthering Heights.- Yeah.
0:13:23 > 0:13:24All the first editions.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28- I can't believe it.- You nearly touched them, then. Go on. No!
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- You know me. - Naughty-naughty-noo-noo.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34I can't come here and not do that. This is, like, my idea of heaven.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37My ultimate favourite is, obviously, Wuthering Heights.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40You know, and my fantasy brain, me skipping through the moors.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43You know, wind in my hair. Just as Cathy would be there.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46Waiting, waiting for Heathcliff to just rescue me.
0:13:46 > 0:13:49Do you think it was your love of the Brontes
0:13:49 > 0:13:52and the books that got you wanting to act?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56I really feel that the Brontes really put it in my head
0:13:56 > 0:13:59to the literacy side and the performance side
0:13:59 > 0:14:02and me wanting to be them and to react and be the actress,
0:14:02 > 0:14:06you know, that they created in these brilliant books. Yeah.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08I think it really put me on the map.
0:14:08 > 0:14:12- As a child, were you always in sort of an acting fantasy world?- Yes.
0:14:12 > 0:14:13Dressing up?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16When I was a kid, everything was fantasy and, literally,
0:14:16 > 0:14:18I'd put my grandma's heels on.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21I loved the clanking of the heels, being like a dolly, and everything.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Everything was fairytale and a performance.
0:14:23 > 0:14:24That's what I loved. All the time.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Again, that's what drove me then to join drama school.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29It was inevitable.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31I want to recreate that early childhood Bronte passion.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35and I've got the perfect way to do it.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40I thought, maybe, we could re-enact a scene from Wuthering Heights.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43- Oh! Amazing. Yes.- So...
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Oh, I love it! I love it! It's like dressing up!
0:14:49 > 0:14:50Look at you. See?
0:14:50 > 0:14:53This is a wee bit small for my size.
0:14:54 > 0:14:59- Oh no!- Do you love it? - I love doing it. Honestly!
0:14:59 > 0:15:01- Could I be one of the sisters? Literally.- Yes!
0:15:01 > 0:15:04I've got some script here.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07I have not broken your heart. You have broken it.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Do I want to live? What kind of living would it be? When you...
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Oh, God!
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Would you have to... Shut up! This is serious. I'm not having it.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- Loving it.- No. You've ruined it. - Yeah. Sorry.- So...
0:15:20 > 0:15:23And the Bafta for best interpretation goes to Len.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25- So, we now go to the pink bit, which is you.- OK.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30"Oh, let me alone, let me alone," sobbed Catherine.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32That's the narrator, "But I've done wrong,
0:15:32 > 0:15:35"I'm dying for it. Is it love?
0:15:35 > 0:15:40"You left me too, but I won't upbraid you. I forgive you.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43"Forgive me."
0:15:43 > 0:15:44SHE GASPS
0:15:44 > 0:15:47- It's like real! That was like, really proper.- Yeah.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50"It is hard to forgive.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55"And to look at those eyes and feel those wasted hands.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01"My answer, kiss me again and don't let me see your eyes."
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Oh!
0:16:03 > 0:16:09- I was going to give you a full-on... - Ah, snog!- No, I'm not.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12'It was like we were back in the 1800s, but, do you know what?
0:16:12 > 0:16:14'I think I'll stick to my dancing.'
0:16:14 > 0:16:18Now, no holiday is complete without sampling the local food.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22When Lisa and her family came to Howarth in 1992, there was
0:16:22 > 0:16:25one place they'd always visit.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29- So, was this the tearooms you came to?- Absolutely.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31You can't come to Howarth and not have a lovely pot of tea
0:16:31 > 0:16:33and a little treat, as well.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36- We'd always come somewhere like this every time we came, yeah.- Yeah?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39When did you get your first big break?
0:16:39 > 0:16:43My first big break was, obviously, Emmerdale, playing Mandy Dingle.
0:16:43 > 0:16:47- Oh!- Yeah, when I got Mandy, literally, I was put on the map.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49You know, brilliant storylines,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51met brilliant actors that I got to work with.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55And Mandy was only for one episode, you know, originally.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56Only one ever for one, yeah.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- You were there for one episode and you did seven and a half years?- Yes.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02So, they brought me back and brought me back again.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04And they said, "Do you want a year's contract?"
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Of course, I said yeah,
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- and there I was, seven and a half years later...- Ah!
0:17:08 > 0:17:10..with, as I'm told, one of the most popular soap
0:17:10 > 0:17:13- characters in history, which I'm very proud of.- Yeah.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Yeah. It was crazy, Len, honestly.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17I remember, at the time, going into my local supermarket,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19and, literally, cos it was my storyline,
0:17:19 > 0:17:23my face was on the front cover of every single TV magazine.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Yeah.- And, of course, my life flipped from that very day.- Yeah.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30- Do you fancy a cake?- It'd be rude not to.- It would, wouldn't it?
0:17:30 > 0:17:31SHE LAUGHS
0:17:31 > 0:17:34- I'll just call for the cake, I think.- Oh.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38Cake? Cake! Cake time, please!
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Bring on the cake!
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- You have such power, Len.- I know.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46'Ho-ho-ho, yum, yum, pig's bum, you can't have none!'
0:17:46 > 0:17:48- Oh, look at that!- Oh!
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Heaven, heaven on an actual tray.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54What was your favourite moment on Emmerdale?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55Oh, favourite moment on Emmerdale...
0:17:55 > 0:17:58There's so many, after all those years. But, I have to say,
0:17:58 > 0:18:01because it's, of course, what the public wanted as well,
0:18:01 > 0:18:04was when they married Mandy and Paddy off.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07The writers tormented it and tormented it, over and over again.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10You know, we broke up, got back together and then, finally,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12they married us off.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15And true Mandy style, where did I spend my wedding night?
0:18:15 > 0:18:17- In prison, of course I did. - Yeah, of course.- Of course I did.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Yeah, so, that's definitely my favourite moment.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23But, after Emmerdale, Lisa went on to even greater things,
0:18:23 > 0:18:27hosting one of ITV's biggest entertainment shows.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33Of course, You've Been Framed, you thought Jeremy Beadle.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36- Yeah.- And suddenly, he's gone, so it must have been a bit of anxiety.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Of course, the pressure was on.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40You know, it's prime time, Saturday night.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Taking over from Jeremy Beadle,
0:18:42 > 0:18:45who'd done brilliant on the show and it was very successful.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49So, yeah, I went out there, was myself, had a ball, loved every
0:18:49 > 0:18:53minute of it and the next thing, the figures of the show soared.
0:18:53 > 0:18:58- Ooh, come on!- And everybody accepted me. Yeah, it was brilliant.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01The pressure was off then, so it was like, everyone's accepted me
0:19:01 > 0:19:05doing the show, so keep going as I can. It was ace.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Almost as ace as this lovely spread.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Well, this area is steeped in literary history, isn't it?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16And our Lisa was obviously inspired.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19'And, now, we've seen her in dozens of challenging
0:19:19 > 0:19:21'and intriguing roles.'
0:19:21 > 0:19:24So, you know, there you are on Emmerdale, right.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- You're there for seven years, or so.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29- It was pretty secure.- Yeah.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32And yet, you said, "No, I'm going to move on."
0:19:32 > 0:19:37- Yeah.- That's a really brave thing to do. What made you want to do that?
0:19:37 > 0:19:41Curiosity, from what I was taught at drama school, that there
0:19:41 > 0:19:44are hundreds of thousands of scripts out there to be read,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47you know, hundreds of thousands of parts to be played.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50There's so many elements - hosting, radio, film -
0:19:50 > 0:19:52within in our industry, you know, dancing...
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- Yes.- ..that we can do.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Yeah, but you didn't take the easy option, you've done some
0:19:57 > 0:20:02pretty hair-raising and dangerous parts, really, haven't you?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07They're real people. I like playing real characters.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10My proudest moment was, certainly, when I did Fat Friends.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13When I got this call that they had this part in mind, of Rebecca,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16very tragic soul, self-harmer and all that.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20And it was that deglamorization and I wanted to get in there, with
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- the glasses, looking horrendous, but that's the person she was.- Yeah.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25That was the character.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28And when your peers ring you up and go, "Do you know what, Lis?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30"You did good there."
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- That's...- Yeah.- That's... Money can't buy that.- No.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36- That's a really special, special thing.- Yeah.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38I'm in Yorkshire with Lisa Riley,
0:20:38 > 0:20:43retracing her childhood holiday of 1992. Inside the St Michael
0:20:43 > 0:20:47and All Angels' Church is the Bronte Memorial Chapel.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50It was here that Patrick Bronte, the father of the sisters,
0:20:50 > 0:20:55worked for over 40 years. He was a campaigner and secured clean water
0:20:55 > 0:20:57for residents and also built a Sunday school.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02Well, of course, this is the church where the Brontes used to pray
0:21:02 > 0:21:07- and their father was the minister. - Yeah.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10This place, more than anywhere in Bronte village, means
0:21:10 > 0:21:12the most to me, cos it's the one I'm so connected to with my mum here.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15- Yeah.- Like, more than anywhere.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- And, also, obviously, the Bronte girls are buried here.- Yeah.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21I think whenever you speak to people, friends and family
0:21:21 > 0:21:24of mine that have been to Bronte village, the first thing they say is,
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- "Did you go to the church?"- Yeah.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29The first thing, because of the history here and the fact that the girls are laid here.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33- Yeah.- And, as a family, the leader of the pack, you know, was the dad.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37- This was his workplace.- Yeah. - You know, day in, day out.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42- And there is a little plaque down the bottom there.- Yeah.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44- Shall we go and have a look? - Yeah, come on.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49So, here we are, Len. This is the plaque.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Obviously, Emily and Charlotte.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Yeah, and they were so young, weren't they?- Yeah.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- Emily's 30.- Yeah.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59And Charlotte is nearly 39.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01- Yeah, it's very cold in the north, Len.- Yeah.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03They got cold very, very quickly.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07I think this chapel is a very special place for you.
0:22:09 > 0:22:14Yeah, I think the girls lost their mum from a very young age
0:22:14 > 0:22:17- and they were successful and I lost my mum.- Yeah.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19Coming here with Mum, it's very close to my heart,
0:22:19 > 0:22:23- so I have a real sense of belonging here. It's lovely.- Yeah.
0:22:23 > 0:22:28You know, I used to go with my mum to the seaside, to Broadstairs.
0:22:28 > 0:22:33And whenever I go there now, I always feel a bit closer to my mum.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35I do, I know. There's a real feeling I've got today
0:22:35 > 0:22:38and that's what I love about it. Because the memories that
0:22:38 > 0:22:41you've given me, by not only coming to Haworth and Bronte village,
0:22:41 > 0:22:44but here, especially, the chapel, means the world to me.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47It was mine and my mum's little safe haven.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Yeah, it's lovely.- Thank you.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Haworth really does have emotional memories for Lisa,
0:22:53 > 0:22:57but there's something she didn't get to do when she came here in '92.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway runs through
0:23:02 > 0:23:06the heart of Bronte country and was opened in 1867.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09It's now preserved as a heritage railway line.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Teenage Lisa didn't get to appreciate it back in '92,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15but I think we can make up for that today.
0:23:17 > 0:23:21Ho-ho-ho! Oh, I've got a treat in store for you.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23- Right, what's this?- Oh, no!
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- Well, you know, I've loved it, we've done the Brontes.- Yeah.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30Right, and I thought, "Let's do something maybe a little bit
0:23:30 > 0:23:31- "different."- OK.
0:23:31 > 0:23:37The train. Now, Oh, no, not just any old train, the steam train.
0:23:37 > 0:23:42- Oh, lovely.- Chugging along, through the Yorkshire Moors.- Sounds perfect!
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- Come on.- Shall we?- Yeah! - Fab, come on.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50'This steam-blowing beauty entered service in 1920
0:23:50 > 0:23:54'and spent 45 years thundering across the country.'
0:23:54 > 0:23:58Now, it's fully restored to its former glory.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59Look, "Built 1920."
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- There you are, in Derby.- Yes.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05- Isn't that fabulous?- Yeah, you can smell it, can't you?- Yeah.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- Aw, I love it.- Look at that.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Making it move still involved shovelling
0:24:10 > 0:24:12shed-loads of coal into the furnace.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16'But can Lisa and I do it as good as steam fireman Ralph?'
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- Now, wait a minute, Lisa.- Yes.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23- 20 seconds, who can shovel the most coal in?- Oh, OK.- Ladies first.- Yes.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25- You ready, Ralph? Ready, Lisa?- Yeah, I'm ready!
0:24:25 > 0:24:27And...go.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Oh, it's heavy, it's heavy.
0:24:31 > 0:24:32Oh, see.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Oh, it's well heavy!
0:24:37 > 0:24:39- Go on, Lis!- Go on, see!
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Go on, girl, get your back behind it.- See.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44- Five...- Oh, oh!- ..four...- OK, OK!
0:24:44 > 0:24:45..three, two,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49- that's it!- And how many was that?
0:24:49 > 0:24:51That was about 85 shovels.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53- A likely story.- Yeah, yeah.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56- Come on, Len, how many was it? - Move over.- I got my hands dirty.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Here I go.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03Oh, Len, that was just... I had five bits on mine,
0:25:03 > 0:25:04he's doing one by one.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08- I think we know who's won this already, don't we?- Yeah, yeah.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12- Don't be vulgar. - Not only have I won...
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- That's a proper amount of coal. - Put your back into it, Leonard.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18LISA LAUGHS
0:25:18 > 0:25:21One thing, we may hoot the hooter?
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Yes!
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- Yeah, go on.- OK. - Don't burn yourself on that.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27TRAIN WHISTLE
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Oh! That was ace!
0:25:29 > 0:25:31It was supposed to be a little hoot!
0:25:31 > 0:25:35With the train fired up, no thanks to me, we're ready to go,
0:25:35 > 0:25:36so we'd better take our seats.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39And, while the gorgeous scenery goes by,
0:25:39 > 0:25:43we'll have one final chat about my mate Lisa's fascinating career.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45- Now, you've done TV...- Yeah.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48..you've done stage, you've been on the television,
0:25:48 > 0:25:53which do you prefer, is there one that you love the most?
0:25:53 > 0:25:56What I love this most is the P word, and it's performing.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59Whether that be film, television, radio, telly, you know,
0:25:59 > 0:26:02I'm just so blessed to do what I love.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04People say, "What are you? Are you an actress?"
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Are you this, that and the other? And I'm just a performer.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10- Yeah.- I love doing everything that the industry involves, really.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- Yeah.- And I'm blessed that I get to do it.- Right.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16You've been in some massive programmes -
0:26:16 > 0:26:22is there anything you think, "If I could, I'd love to do..."
0:26:22 > 0:26:27- Something, or...- Yeah.- Yeah? - My ultimate dream would be
0:26:27 > 0:26:29a period drama, it really would.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32You know, down in the kitchen, with the hair, with the mop cap,
0:26:32 > 0:26:37- the corset, no teeth.- Yeah, yeah. - I'd love to do something like that.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39- That would be great, it really, really would.- Yeah.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42Well, we've touched on it before, do you think your day
0:26:42 > 0:26:48with your mum in Haworth helped to shape who you became?
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Oh, completely, because mum always let me be who I wanted to be.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57If I wanted to skip round the church and do little role-plays and stuff, she let me.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Or stand outside the apothecary on the high street in Haworth, you know.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03- Yeah.- She'd let me be silly and do these characters.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07- That set me up for the person I am today.- Yeah.
0:27:07 > 0:27:13- Let me get out. Take my hand, madam. - Aw!- How was that?
0:27:13 > 0:27:17- Wonderful.- Wasn't that great?- A train journey with a true gentleman.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Oh, you and I.- It's been amazing. - Oh, it was like Brief Encounter.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23You were brief and I was an encounter.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Exactly!
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Listen, I know you used to share this day with your mum
0:27:30 > 0:27:34and I hope, in a little way, I've taken over from your mum.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36It's been so, so fabulous.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- It has and she'd be so proud, honestly, Len.- Oh, great.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41- Yeah, thank you.- Great.
0:27:41 > 0:27:47Now, talking of memory, this is a scrapbook of all our day together.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Oh, wonderful.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52- So it's a book of memories. - A lovely book of memories.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58For Lisa, a photographic memento of our trip to Haworth,
0:27:58 > 0:28:02which will help her remember our Bronte-inspired adventure.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- Thanks a million.- Thank you, darling. Aw, you're a gem.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11'It's goodbye from Haworth and the summer of 1992.'
0:28:11 > 0:28:15A truly special place that Lisa shared with her mum, that will
0:28:15 > 0:28:17remain forever in her heart.