Fiona Phillips Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman

Childhood holidays. We all love them, don't we? Fun in the sun,

sand castles, swimming in the sea.

Can't beat 'em.

So in this series I'm going to be reliving those wonderful times

with some much-loved famous faces...

Everyone a winner. Come on, hook a duck.

..and some of the most surprising guests have the most

fascinating holidays.

THEY LAUGH

-Here she comes.

-It's a tug-of-war!

Hey!

We'll relive the fun...

WHISTLE BLOWS

..the games...

and the food of years gone by...

That is a little taste of childhood right there.

..to find out how those holidays around the UK helped shape

the people we know so well today.

I'm giving you a standing ovation.

So buckle up for Holiday Of My Lifetime.

Can you come on all my holidays?

Oh-ho! I'm excited today.

I'm meeting an old friend

who's been having breakfast with the nation for years.

She was born in Canterbury in Kent in 1961.

What a cutie!

She began her career on radio before bouncing onto our screens

as a news presenter.

And she had so much fun working with my old mate Eamonn Holmes on GMTV

where she worked for 15 years.

Aw! She always started our day with a smile.

And I met her when she was on Strictly.

Now, she didn't win but I tell you what,

she did some memorable performances.

Oh-ho! The thought of them haunts me now.

From Panorama to Watchdog to Loose Women,

I tell you, this girl's one tough cookie.

Oh, and she's a smart one too.

She's everybody's breakfast buddy.

Oh-ho! It's only Fiona Phillips.

And I'm on my way to pick her up in this fabulous Ford Anglia estate

just like the one her dad used to drive.

I bet she was a handful in the back, bouncing about.

Fiona was born to Phil and Amy Phillips in Kent

on New Year's Day in 1961.

The family later moved to Southampton where she grew up

alongside her brothers.

Fiona's career began as a local news reporter but was soon catapulted

into the nation's hearts as the bright-eyed presenter on GMTV,

where she stayed for over a decade.

Since then, she's been a regular face on Loose Women, the BBC

and shone brightly on the Strictly dance floor.

Along with her numerous other TV appearances, she's a newspaper

columnist, radio presenter and active charity ambassador.

And she's a mum too. I don't know how she fits it all in.

Today I'm taking her back to a memorable summer holiday

of her childhood and I've even got the car to match.

-CAR HORN TOOTS

-Gosh. It's a little old Anglia!

-Fiona.

-Len!

I can't believe you fitted in there. We must've been smaller in the '70s.

-What do you think of the wheels?

-I love them.

-Good to see you.

-So good to see you too.

-Look at it.

-That takes me back.

-My dad always used to have Anglias as company cars.

-Oh, right.

-So this was the car?

-I can't believe... That was the car.

We thought it was the grandest car ever. Look at it.

It looks as though it's smiling at the front too. It's lovely.

So where were you going off to?

We were going off to the Norfolk Broads.

-Ooh, I've never been.

-Well now's your chance, isn't it?

-Yes.

-Hopefully.

-What a bit of luck. And what's the year?

-1975.

I know it well. '75? Muhammad Ali, the Thrilla in Manila.

Rod Stewart. # Sailing. #

And we're going to go on your holidays. Come on!

Good, good, good. I can't wait.

To the east of Norwich

and the west of Great Yarmouth

the Norfolk Broads straddle the

counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

'Set amongst beautiful marshland fields and tangled woodlands,

'it's home to 125 miles of waterways...

'..and a quarter of Britain's rarest species.

'But it's not all wildlife.

'7 million visitors holiday here every year

'so jump aboard as I set sail with Fiona Phillips

'on a trip down memory lane to 1975.

'With some fun little puppet pals...'

I'm covered in glue.

'..and poodle perms...'

-Dun-dun!

-Ha-ha-ha!

-Oh, Brian.

-Hey!

-Calm it down.

-Take it easy, Brian.

'..as we enjoy a peaceful cruise...'

-There's something very graceful about it.

-Yeah, leisurely.

I'm liking it.

'..through the beautiful Norfolk Broads.'

But before any holiday begins you must first get there.

for Fiona, that meant a long car journey with Mum, Dad

and her two brothers.

So was coming down here to the Norfolk Broads,

was that a typical holiday for you?

No, no, no. This was like...

It was like a foreign trip coming to the Norfolk Broads

cos my mum was Welsh and so our holidays were us being

-dragged around our relations in Wales.

-Oh, right.

So that was always our holiday.

So the Norfolk Broads, this was a big, big holiday.

This was a foreign trip.

So there was your dad here,

-there's your mum.

-Mum.

-Baby on the lap.

With Andrew, my little brother,

-who was about two and a bit, three then.

-Right.

And then there was David, my other brother,

who's about 20 months younger than me

and me in the back.

So where did you live?

We lived in a three-bed semi in Southampton.

It was a long journey then from Southampton.

Yeah, it must've been. I can't... Do you know, I can't remember much

of the journey apart from who was in the car.

-And had you been on a boat or anything before?

-No. God, no.

That was always my dad's dream though.

He said he'd love to live on a boat.

So for him I think it was...

He worked hard all his life and I think he wanted

-a holiday that he thought was a real splash out, you know?

-Yeah.

-That's great though, isn't it?

-Yeah.

# You've done it all... #

Back in 1975 it wasn't just Fiona

and her family embarking on a long journey.

Dougal Haston and Doug Scott had a lot further to travel

as they became the first Britons

to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest.

And this is the route that all

expeditions to the south-west face have used, is it?

Yes, it's the standard route.

The man who climbed to the highest heights of the silent film era

also hit the headlines as Charlie Chaplin received

a knighthood from the Queen at the ripe old age of 85.

Is it to be Sir Charles or Sir Charlie from now on?

Sir Charles.

Six years after oil was discovered off the coast of Aberdeen,

the Queen officially opened the UK's first oil pipeline,

pumping 10,000 barrels of North Sea black gold every day.

That first trickle will grow and by 1977,

supplies from the Forties Field alone should amount to

at least one quarter of the oil

we require as a nation.

But also striking gold that year in the world of music was

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel with their smash hit,

Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me).

# Come up and see me

# Make me smile

# Or do what you want running wild. #

And smiling is exactly what holidays are all about.

And after their long car journey,

Fiona and the rest of the family had at last arrived.

Now, Fiona, does this bring back any happy memories of 1975?

Oh, do you know, what it does bring back, obviously, my mum, my dad.

Memories of them. I remember when I got here the boat had rough plastic.

I suppose it was like a floating caravan really.

Yeah, that's exactly what it was and I don't remember us moving anywhere.

Oh, you just...

-We were floating but I think we just floated!

-You just slept in it.

We didn't actually go anywhere.

Today we'll be doing a lot more than just floating on the Broads

but I want to know more about Fiona's holiday boat.

-So what did your boat look like?

-It was long.

-Right.

It was clad in wood around the top bit and the rest of it,

I assumed fibreglass, a creamy coloured fibreglass.

It had a horrible old, faded orangey old curtains at the window.

Very '70s, actually. Very orange and brown.

Well, to relive those days,

I found a boat that's of similar age

to the one Fiona holidayed on -

the Jenny Wren, captained by James.

-So, now look at this one coming in.

-Yeah.

-The Jenny Wren.

Would that have been something like...?

Something like it but it was a bit bigger.

Well, it's got better curtains, hasn't it?

Ours had old faded orangey things just sort of hung there.

They're all pinned back and they look nice.

Although my dad, bless him, he thought it was really...

-BOTH:

-The bees knees, yeah.

He was on a boat for a week, you know?

-Now, I'm going to do something nautical here.

-OK.

Can I get the rope and pull it in or something?

I'd love to do something nautical.

I'm a good catcher. Do I pull it?

You'll have to give me a hand here.

Come on. Grrah! Ha-ha! Ha-ha!

-So my brothers and my dad would have done this.

-Yeah, well...

You want me to take it round there?

You haven't done a figure of eight here. You have to do...

-Let's put that... There you go like that.

-Oh.

You see, a figure of eight.

Well, I've never been on a boat like this.

You see, I'm very impressed I've remembered that, actually.

-You've done well. Shall we get on?

-Yes. Shall we?

-Come on.

-Ooh, dear.

-James.

-Good morning.

-Len. This is Fiona.

-Hi, James.

-Hi.

-Nice to meet you.

What year is this boat? Would it have been around in '75?

-Yes, she certainly was. She was built in the early

-'50s. Ooh.

Well, I reckon that would have been about the age

cos it was very similar to this.

-I like it.

-Yeah, I love the wood. The wood is warm, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Shall we set sail and have a little mooch along?

-That would be nice.

SHE CHUCKLES Come on, James!

Away...

-Shiver me timbers.

-Shiver me timbers! And off we go.

Oh, I'm going to enjoy this.

There's something very graceful about it, isn't there?

Yeah, leisurely. I'm liking it.

This is the life, isn't it?

On a day like this you could be in the South of France

but here we are in Norfolk

sailing along on the old boat.

But if the unpredictable British weather

took a turn for the worse, Fiona's family could always escape inside.

I wonder if this interior brings back any memories.

-You're nearly hitting the roof here. Mind your head.

-Yeah, I did.

-See?

-Ooh! You're able to move between...

-It is compact, isn't it?

It's lovely though. And this must have been...

You must be able to pull these out and make the beds out of them.

Goodness knows how though. I don't know. Oh, that's a drawer.

I don't know. I can't remember how you do that.

-Yeah.

-Ooh.

-Oh, no don't. Don't break it. It's 60 years old.

To put us back in 1975, I've even got one of the original

holiday brochures Fiona's dad booked their trip through.

That would have been the time, won't it?

-That is it.

-"Come boating with Hoseasons."

-1975.

-Ah, 1975!

My goodness!

I guess your dad got this magazine cos it's fabulous.

Ah, now I like the look of that one but it's...

I remember him looking through it all proud.

Now I think, hang on... Ours was like that. It's like a sort of...

-It's like a bungalow on a boat!

-Yes.

-Yeah, it was similar.

-I remember you could walk around the side...

-Yeah.

-..because I had an incident.

-Oh, you fell in?

Well, I went outside and daydreaming over the side and I fell in.

My dad just went, "Ooh, God, she's fallen in."

-Didn't try and rescue me.

-No rescuing.

-No throwing in the life buoy or whatever.

-No.

And my brother jumped on...

There was a little rowing boat, he jumped onto a rowing boat

-and rescued me.

-There you are.

And I had to go straight in that bathroom,

in that plastic bath next to the chemical toilet.

-Oh, no.

-Yes.

And when Fiona wasn't being dragged out of the water by her brother,

she was busy following her mum around the many souvenir shops

that surrounded the Broads.

My mum saw this blessed old...

And you would've seen them in lots of people's houses I'm sure,

and she thought it was the Crown Jewels. It was a carthorse.

Do you remember those old Shire pony,

china Shire pony with all the leather straps and everything

with a grey horrible old cart on the back with all brass and...

Pride of position when we got home

and I lived with that thing for years!

Oi! I've got one of them on my mantelpiece

right beside the glitter ball.

I'm classy like that.

Tourists, like Fiona and her family, have been setting sail

along the Broads since Victorian times

but it wasn't until the 1950s that they hit on the theory

of how the Broads got to be what they are today.

It was generally thought that the Broads were just natural lakes

and rivers but in the 1950s it was discovered by Joyce Lambert,

who was a botanist and she was working in some of the Broads here.

The sides were vertical or they were stepped.

So she put forward a paper to say that they had been dug by man

and they were dug for peat.

And peat was used for heating and for homes.

So great quantities of peat were dug which made holes.

And these holes were filled in

in the 1400s by a great rise in the water.

And then they were formed as broads or lakes

but now we know them as broads.

We're taking a break from sailing

to hop on to dry land to get some supplies,

just like Fiona did on the Norfolk Broads adventure.

Plus, I want to know how she got her pocket money back in the '70s.

You used to have a paper round.

-I had a morning paper round, an evening paper round.

-Really?

-Yeah.

And I was so good at my job,

I got promoted to working in the newsagents.

-Really?

-Yes.

Was that so that you could buy whatever you wanted rather than say,

-"Mum, I want this"?

-Absolutely.

I wanted everything that was in fashion

and my mum always said to me,

"If you want fashion things, you get out and work for them."

-Yeah.

-And I did. And that's given me an independence.

I've never had to rely on anyone else. Fortunately.

-And that's carried on, I guess, throughout your life really.

-Yeah.

And I suppose on your holiday you'd come in places like this

with your dad to collect, get bits and pieces.

-What would you be getting?

-I'd be getting Smash Hits.

Anything with the Bay City Rollers or David Essex or Donny Osmond on.

And there was one called Disco 45 and it was really hip

because it had the lyrics of the songs of the time in there.

-Of all the hits, yeah.

-Really? Let's look here a moment.

-Was it something like...

-Oh, no!

You've got one. With David Essex on!

-Oh, my goodness.

-Was it a bit like this one?

-Wasn't he dreamy?

Why don't we pop off and we can have a little read

of Disco 45 Song Book?

-We don't just read Disco 45, you sing it!

-Sing it! Oh!

A Len and Fiona duet, what fun!

And don't worry, I have paid for the magazine.

The Norfolk Broads are alive with exciting things to see and do.

So if you're heading to these parts

then I've seven top tips for your visit.

Regular visitors will be familiar

with the wonderful windmills in the area.

And this little beauty is one of the most active of them all.

But you won't find a grain of flour in sight.

Built in 1874, Hardley Windmill's purpose was purely to pump water

from nearby marshes into the River Yare.

Before it closed down in the middle of the last century, it was

capable of raising an incredible 12 tonnes of water every minute.

After standing derelict for years, its sails now turned once more.

The Broads have so much beauty to offer but most

only access a fraction of it

and it's the shallow backwaters that are havens for wildlife.

Have a paddle down some of the undisturbed ways or get a

guided tour with canoe man Mark Wilkinson

and trusty dog, Mr Darcy.

Canoeing is obviously a fantastic way to see the Broads

in the fact that one, it's incredibly environmentally friendly.

Yeah, we're not disturbing anything,

we're not causing any pollution.

It's very, very easy.

You don't have to be any great expert.

You can be a complete novice

and you can spend a day out on the water and have a wonderful time.

It also gives you access to the bits where the motor boats can't get to.

You know, the water gets too shallow, starts to get really muddy,

get's tree roots in it, like we've got down here.

The motor boats can't go there.

Canoes, we need two, three inches of water and we can go

almost anywhere we like.

I'm with Fiona Phillips in the Norfolk Broads,

where she and her family holidayed back in 1975.

We've headed to the riverside to rekindle some teenage memories.

-Here it is. Disco 45 Song Book.

-Disco 45!

-Freddie Mercury in there, bless him.

-Were you good at school?

Ah! No.

Yeah, do you know, my dad always said to me,

"It's a criminal waste of intelligence."

In primary school, I won a national poetry prize, I won another...

I won an art prize.

I was always being marched around the rest of the classes by

the headmaster to read out my brilliant English essays.

And then I went to secondary school and it all went wrong.

And I thought fooling around in class was really cool,

doing no work, not doing the homework.

I took my O-levels, as they were then.

I got English cos you didn't have to revise and I got a B for that.

-And I'd got Ds and Es for the rest of them.

-Really?

And I'll never ever forget my mum and dad's face

when those results came in.

I retook all my O-levels and did three A-levels,

started three A-levels at the same time.

And I had to stay three years at sixth form

so all my friends left and I was still there.

So you came to your senses eventually and realised...

I did come to my senses. I did an English degree.

-Did you?

-I did, yeah. At a polytechnic, not a university

cos I'd left it so late. And during that, actually, I thought,

"Yeah, I'd quite like to be a journalist."

And I did a postgraduate certificate in radio journalism

and then I worked for a year at one station for absolutely nothing

In the end, they gave me a job because I'd make myself so...

They needed me and I was doing everything for nothing.

And in the end they started paying me.

-Was that on a radio station?

-Yeah, a local radio station.

-Right.

Fiona's big break in radio really changed her life.

And speaking of changes...

The boats sailing through the Broads today are very different to those

of the 1970s.

Holiday-maker Caroline Male remembers what it was like

when she came here all those years ago.

My parents had a traditional Norfolk cruiser,

and we used to spend a month on the Broads every August,

and that comprised of driving the boat

from here, there and everywhere.

We used to cover all four rivers.

It was a fairly basic existence, I will say.

We didn't have a shower on board,

so we had to find showers at various boatyards.

The loo system, until the mid-1970s, was also very basic.

You could press the pedal and see the river underneath,

cos that's actually where all the waste went, which wasn't great.

There's more proper moorings now than there used to be.

You used to very much have to sort of moor up on a muddy bank

and use a land anchor, which is a big sort of metal thing

that you bang into the ground,

traditionally known as wild moorings.

A lot of them have actually got plug-in electricity as well,

which is great,

and it means that you don't have to run your engine

if you haven't been that far to actually make sure

you've got electricity within the boat for the day.

We've stepped back aboard our boat for the day

to relive some of those early memories.

For teenager Fiona Phillips in 1975, forget the scenery -

it was all about music and magazines.

Shall we have a song?

-Well, I hope you're going to sing it.

-What about...?

-# Mama, just killed a man...

-Just killed a... #

No, no, no, wait a minute. We've got to get into character.

-OK. OK.

-We've got to get a bit into character here.

I'll be Brian May.

-Oh, am I Freddie?

-You're Freddie.

Oh, hang on. Freddie.

Is that my sole prop? A Freddie moustache.

Hang on, how do you get this off?

-Let's have a look. Oh-ho-ho!

-# Mama!

-# Just killed a man... #

-Oh, yes. Wait a minute.

Oh, Brian.

-LAUGHING:

-Oh, you do look like him.

Don't me laugh cos my moustache comes off.

-There you are.

-Well, you look like King Charles I.

-Charles I.

-Trust me.

-Are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Well, I'll kick it off.

-Yeah.

# Is this the real life?

# Is this just fantasy?

# Caught in a landslide

-BOTH:

-# No escape from reality

# Open your eyes

# Look up to the skies and see

# I'm just a poor boy

-BOTH:

-# I need NO sympathy

# Because I'm easy come, easy go

# Little high, little low

# Any way the wind blows

# Doesn't really matter to me

# To me... #

-We've key-changed about ten times.

-I'm no good at singing.

GUITAR SOLO PLAYS

Big hair was all the rage in the '70s,

and music didn't come much bigger than Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

At the time, it was the most expensive single ever made.

It became Christmas number one in 1975

and held the top spot for nine weeks,

but I think our version is almost as good.

# I see a little silhouetto of a man

-BOTH:

-# Scaramouche, Scaramouche Will you do the Fandango?

# Thunderbolt and lightning Very, very frightening me

-# Galileo

-Galileo

-# Galileo, Figaro

-Galileo... #

Does he come in now with a guitar?

THEY IMITATE GUITAR SOLO

-Jeez... Ha-ha!

-Oh, Brian!

-Hey!

-Take it easy.

-Calm it down.

Oh. I tell you what...

I think we've docked. Is that what you call it?

THEY GIGGLE I think...

I think we've gone past our sell by date,

I don't know about docked.

There you are.

I've got to sit down now. I've overwhelmed myself.

-I have, and my moustache is coming off.

-Oh...

# Just gotta get out

# Just gotta get right outta here... #

I bet you didn't think in 1975 that you'd be back on the Norfolk Broads

-singing Bohemian Rhapsody with some...

-With King Charles I.

With King Charles I.

Being a rock star is exhausting.

I think we need a well-earned rest.

While we catch our breath,

here's the next instalment of my seven top tips

for visiting this area.

Wroxham is often referred to as the capital of the Broads,

and as well as being home to lovely shops,

there's also an abundance of boats in the town

making it an ideal place for a nice day out.

But if that's not to your taste, try the Mustard Museum.

It's packed with memorabilia

charting the history of Norfolk's world-famous condiment.

Ooh, yummy.

The mustard shop was first opened

in 1973 in Bridewell Alley,

and it was to celebrate 150 years of mustard being made

in the City of Norwich.

So, the shop was fitted out with Victorian interior

to celebrate the era when mustard was first made in the city.

Mustard has lots of different uses,

and it's been used for over 2,000 years for different purposes,

and there was actually a range of

different medicinal products that were produced.

For example, mustard plasters and mustard baths,

which were used to help cure colds,

and also mustard oil, which was a cure for rheumatism.

Head along the Norfolk Broads and you'll find yourself in Norwich.

It started off as an Anglo-Saxon settlement on the River Wensum.

After the Norman invasion,

it transformed into a wool and weaving city,

but it's also a place that's special to Fiona

because this is where her broadcasting career

really kicked off.

Well, at last we've arrived in Norwich.

-And it's lovely.

-It is really lovely.

And you got your first big break, I think, in Norwich.

Yeah, it was really funny.

-I was doing a mixture of local radio news and traffic reports.

-Right.

Where I worked doing traffic reports,

they said something about a screen test.

And I told my mum I'd done the screen test,

and she was really excited.

And then, about two days after I'd done it,

I got this phone call from the producer,

and he said, "Er... I'm sorry to tell you...

"you got the job!"

-Oh!

-And I was like...

-SHE SCREAMS

-I just remember screaming. And...I was on my own.

-Yeah?

-And then I was... Phoned my mum straightaway, obviously.

-Yeah.

Oh, great, hey?

Yeah, and it was... Yes, it was based in Norwich.

It was a live programme on a Friday night

which went out in the South East and East Anglia.

Well, now, a couple of problems actually getting to Margate -

-by road at least.

-Yes, if you take the car, how right you are.

The M2 - lots of roadworks on that.

First of all junctions 3 and 4

and again between junctions 5 and 6 -

that's between Sittingbourne and Faversham.

If you actually do manage to get there,

there's plenty of parking, but you have to pay,

so take plenty of loose change with you,

or take the train to Margate.

That was my first live TV, really.

-Well, obviously, Norwich gives you happy memories.

-Yeah, very much so.

And so what we're going to do, we're going to go and have fun.

-Ooh!

-Come on, girl.

I've got a treat in store for Fiona

with no strings attached.

I've arranged for us to visit the Norwich Puppet Theatre

where they make these little critters.

Look at that face.

I'm not sure teenage Fiona would've loved this place,

but I like to broaden horizons.

So, what I thought we could do is we could make a puppet each.

Could we? I'm not artistically talented at all.

-Oh, that's a shame, because I am.

-Good.

-And I thought you could try and do one of me...

-Right.

..and I will try and do one of you,

and then Zara will be the judge.

So, I've made a start.

-This one is...

-Yeah.

-..you.

-That's me.

-I'm glad you've clothed him.

-LAUGHING:

-Well, yes.

-Thank you.

And this, of course, is the gorgeous Princess Fiona.

Exactly.

'There's so many bits and pieces here,

'it's hard to know where to start.

'Perhaps right in the middle.'

And straight on goes her little tiny snubby nose.

'But before I get too far into the puppet-making zone,

'I want to find out more about Fiona's days on GMTV.'

Tell me a little bit about working with Eamonn.

Oh, do you know?

You can't put two people together and make chemistry - you can't.

-Yeah.

-We'd come from our audience.

We were like our audience, and we understood the audience,

and we had the same sense of humour.

-Yeah, that's great.

-Yeah.

You certainly did have...

You know, you could see the chemistry coming through

with the pair of you.

We sometimes were incapable of going on, because we were...

we'd made each other laugh so much.

-And we hoped people at home were laughing too, but...

-Yeah.

Really, that doesn't matter, I don't think.

As long as you're having a good time,

-I think that comes across.

-I think it does, yeah.

-And you can tell if people get on and you can tell if they're...

-Yeah.

..you know, just... I think that all comes out.

But I must say, that period of you and Eamonn on GMTV,

I think that was the absolute best

because you could tell there was so much joy going on...

-Yeah.

-..and you could feel it.

-Yeah.

And I look back on those days very, very fondly.

There's a lot of chemistry in puppet-making, too, you know?

I'm covered in glue.

But I'm feeling very confident about my creation.

She doesn't stand a chance.

I've been doing puppets like this for nearly 50 years.

Look at that. Just look. It's as though...

It's as though she's standing next to me now.

Fiona's making some final touches to her...thing,

but now it's time to reveal our craftwork.

-Right, I've finished with him...

-Right. Now, put yours in here.

SHE LAUGHS Put...

You've given me a mohican.

Oh, look. But I've given you... Look, a 7 as well.

-Oh, that's kind.

-Oh, no, it's gone.

And I've put you in the ballroom hold.

However, I'm not very pleased with my nose -

Cork Nose Goodman... FIONA LAUGHS

..if I want to be honest.

Well, let's get Zara in. Zara, come forward, please.

How many marks are you going to give my...?

Look at her golden hair.

How many are you giving that?

-Maybe a seven.

-IMITATES LEN:

-Seven!

Another seven. OK, yeah, I'll except a seven.

Now, go over to Fiona's. What are you going to give that?

I think I'd probably go...

with an eight.

It's the first time I've ever won anything!

-That is the most hurtful thing.

-I didn't even win raffles!

You've colluded. There's been a collu...

Go on. Well done.

I was robbed. I was robbed!

I'm not having this. The blooming liberty.

For some, a holiday is about sampling the local delicacies,

but for 14-year-old Fiona Phillips,

you just couldn't beat a good old-fashioned bag of fish and chips.

However, you've got to sing for your supper with old Lenny boy.

-This is the place. Ooh!

-It's lovely. Wow.

-Hello.

-Now, I know...I know you're hungry, but...

-Yeah?

-..you used to work in a paper shop, right?

-Yeah.

So... And you never know how your career can turn and change.

-No, you don't.

-Do you?

-You don't.

So, they've allowed us to serve fish and chips

from behind the counter.

Oh, that would be brilliant.

'First up, proper chip shop clobber.

'Oh-ho-ho, I'm going to be good at this.

'So, we look the part -

'all we need now is our first customer.'

Now, look intelligent.

-Ah! Hello.

-Hello.

-What are you after?

Can I get cod and chips with a sausage on the side, please?

Cod and chips with a sausage...

Cod and chips with a sausage on the side. Anthony.

All right...

-That's that.

-'Get in there, Fiona.'

Do you want a large portion?

I've given him... I've given him a large one.

-There you go. Salt and vinegar?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

-I like doing this.

-You're good.

There you go. It's not wrapped very nicely, but...

No, wait a moment. We've got to get...

-The fish isn't ready.

-The fish is not ready.

-Oh, I've given him his chips...!

-THEY LAUGH

Shall I give you some fresh chips?

I feel really guilty now.

-I mean, they are still warm. Hot.

-No, they'll be fine.

You've wrapped them beautifully.

-'Scuse the fingers.

-There you go.

-Oh, no, that won't fit.

-It's all right.

You see them hanging out of the end.

I'll fold it over.

'It fits now!'

Have you seen what he's done to your fish?

-I've only snapped the tail off.

-He's bent it over.

-7.85, nine quid, tenner.

-There you go.

-Thank you.

-Cheers a lot.

Can I have your autograph? You're our first customer.

-Thank you very, very much.

-And probably our last.

-Thanks a lot. Thank you.

-Bye.

-Thank you. Bye. Bye.

Employees of the Month? Definitely.

I think that went beautifully.

Anthony, if we're going to do any more,

you've got to buck your ideas up...

-Yeah.

-..cos that was far too slow. God.

'Right, I've had enough of serving the smiley locals of Norwich.

'I think Fiona and I deserve some chips to ourselves,

'although she's very healthy these days, is Fiona.'

I understand you're a vegetarian.

I am. Well, I've always loved animals.

We lived near a cattle market in Canterbury at one time,

and when Mum told me what happened to them,

-it really made...

-Yeah?

Yeah, so I don't eat meat because I like animals.

And weren't you voted Sexy Vegetarian of 2007?

Apparently so. WORLD'S Sexiest Vegetarian.

And Russell Brand was named the World's Sexiest Vegetarian Male.

-Russell Grant?

-No, Russell Brand!

-Oh, Russell Brand.

-Could've been Russell Grant!

-Could've been Russell Grant.

-Yeah.

Now, I'll tell you something else - it put me off for life almost.

You did that programme about sugar,

how much sugar was in...

-The Truth About Sugar.

-The Truth About Sugar.

But sugar in supermarkets

isn't just limited to sweet treats,

it's actually in quite a few savoury products as well,

and often with a lot more sugar than you'd think.

Now, did that change you as well as it changed virtually everyone?

I was just really worried

cos I've always brought my kids up with nice food,

and soon as they become old enough

to buy food in shops and supermarkets,

they just eat junk now and so much of it.

I mean, they buy cans of fizzy drink by the shed load.

And I was just really worried about

-the amount of sugar they were packing away.

-Yeah.

And I'm even more worried now I did the programme,

cos it's in so many things,

and there's so much of it in everything.

Speaking of watching what you eat,

I think we'd better walk off these chips.

While we do, here's the last of my seven things to do

in and around the lovely Norfolk Broads.

If you're a foodie,

here's something else to really get your taste buds tingling.

Each season, thousands of Cromer crabs are caught

on the chalky Norfolk reefs

and brought ashore where they're turned, by hand,

into a lovely local delicacy.

These crabs are famous for their tender and sweet flesh,

and they taste every bit as good as they look.

Ooh, yummy.

No trip to Norwich would be complete

without a visit to the city's awe-inspiring cathedral.

This 900-year-old ecclesiastic gem

is one of the best examples of Romanesque architecture

in the whole of Europe.

Air enthusiasts will go into a spin

at the City of Norwich Aviation Museum

in Horsham St Faith.

These impressive machines chart the history of aviation

across the East of England.

Tell us more, Colin.

The Aviation Museum has been on this site

from around about 1984, 1985.

It's original conception

was in the late 1970s.

We have a complete range of aircraft here.

We have 14 full aircraft -

15 if you include the Harrier that's currently being built.

We've an extensive range of archives,

and we have two military aeroplanes that they can view from the inside.

Our two most historically significant aircraft

are our F27 and Handley Page Herald.

The F27 has recently undergone significant restoration

and has been re-sprayed in its originally Air UK colours.

However all of the aircraft here represent aircraft

that have flown from bases in Norfolk.

Spending the day with Fiona,

it's easy to see she's had a long and clever career

since her 1975 holiday,

but one job offer came with real power and responsibility.

You got a job offer from Gordon Brown.

Yes, I did, when he was forming his government in 2007,

and he asked me to be Public Health Minister.

And I didn't quite know how I could do that without being an MP,

and... Yeah, yeah, it was a great honour to be asked.

I can remember sitting there with him,

and when he said it, I thought, "Oh, gosh," you know,

-"Does he really mean me?"

-Yeah.

Well, politicians can be competitive,

and when Fiona came on Strictly, she wasn't, really.

I did love her, though.

But today, bringing back memories of the fairground she visited in 1975,

I want to see if I can bring out some competitive spirit.

Well, you may not be that competitive,

but I've got to tell you, I am.

So, I'd like us to have a go at the old coconut shies.

I bet you would.

I tell you what - it's nothing to do with knocking one off,

-it's hitting one.

-OK, OK.

-Just hitting it...

-All right.

-..will count.

So, it's a target thing rather than a...

-Yeah, it's a target thing.

-OK.

Ooh!

-Oh!

-Oh!

-Oh...

-Hey, hey, hey!

-Oh!

-Oh!

'Now, that wasn't bad, but can Fiona do any better?'

-Ooh!

-Oh!

-No!

-No.

We'll get a bit closer.

I still won't do it.

You hit it.

Oh, you're hitting it lovely now.

-Well...I mean, it's not budging.

-No, you are.

-It's not...going anywhere.

-Oh, you've got a double knocker.

Hold on, there's something I've always wanted to do

at coconut shies.

-You see... Get...

-Yeah. And this one.

-Good. Get on with it.

Fiona admits that she was a bit moody

when she came here as a teenager,

but I wonder what Fiona thinks of our Norfolk adventure today.

Well, I hope you've had a bit more fun than you did

when you were the 14-year-old sulky girl.

-Yeah, well, I've smiled a lot more.

-You certainly have.

And I really appreciate what my parents did

-to bring us here as well.

-Yeah.

And I think, you know, thinking of your parents,

you know, it must be tinged with a little bit of sadness

because, of course, they both eventually had Alzheimer's,

and... But then you faced that

and you wrote about it and did interviews.

What prompted you to want to do that?

My parents weren't elderly.

You know, my mum...had Alzheimer's in her 50s,

my dad was only in his 60s,

and I saw the lack of care,

the lack of understanding by GPs, by hospital doctors,

and I was angry.

And I just thought, "Hang on, if I can't deal with this,

"how...how do other people deal with it?"

There wasn't proper care, and I'm still cross about that.

And so I do still do talk about it because it's a real...

When you have to look after someone 24/7 because they're not...

Towards the end, they can't be left on their own,

and, you know, you need help, and it's not there.

The only way things get improved upon is to make people aware of it,

and I think that's what you really did.

You know, when you look back on all the things you've done and that,

is there any one thing that really makes you proud

that you're, "Glad I did that."

I'm glad that I looked after my mum and dad as best I could,

although I still feel a great guilt that I couldn't do enough,

and I'm glad that they made...gave me

their work ethic to get out there aged 11 and do things for myself

-rather than waiting for them to do it for me.

-Yeah.

-They're the things I'm most proud of, I think.

-Yeah.

'It's been lovely spending the day with Fiona

'and learning about her teenage years.

'We worked up an appetite...'

-There you go. Salt and vinegar?

-Yes, please.

-OK.

-I like doing this.

-You're good.

'..and rocked till we dropped...'

There you are. I've got to sit down now. I've overwhelmed myself.

'..as we sailed down memory lane.'

-There's something very graceful about it.

-Yeah, it's leisurely.

I'm liking it.

-Now...this is a little book of memories...

-Aw.

-..and you've got me on the front.

-Oh, how lovely.

A scrapbook of our time in the beautiful from Norfolk Broads

that will help her remember our boating adventure.

Earlier, Fiona recalled the horse and cart her mum bought

when she was here in 1975.

Well, I've got one final surprise in store.

Ta-da! SHE GASPS

It's the... Oh!

-SHE LAUGHS

-See what I mean?

-I like it, though, now.

-It's my mum's horse and cart.

-Well, one similar to it.

-Yeah.

-Hers was a bit bigger, actually...

-Oh, really?

-..but this is lovely!

-But I like it, though.

-Well... Yeah.

-Yeah.

-It was the Crown Jewels in our house.

-Of course.

-Thank you.

-Well, it's been fabulous.

-Yeah. You too.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-Thank you so much.

-I feel very lucky. Thank you.

-No, we've had a lovely time.

It's goodbye from the Norfolk Broads and 1975.

Today, Fiona rediscovered her teenage holiday

that will forever hold a special place in her heart.