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.
0:00:52 > 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.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25So come with us on our Bronte adventure,
0:05:25 > 0:05:27as we act out a scene.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32- Kiss me again. And don't let me see your eyes.- Oh!
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Dance like a dream.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38- Still got it!- Oh, look at that. Go on.- Look at them hips.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And relive the age of steam. TRAIN WHISTLE
0:05:40 > 0:05:44Oh! Oh-ho-ho!
0:05:44 > 0:05:47All in the lovely village of Haworth, Bronte country.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Before any holiday begins, you must start on a journey.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57For 16-year-old Lisa Riley,
0:05:57 > 0:06:01it was a driving adventure she was already very familiar with.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07So this, actually, wasn't a holiday as such. It was a day trip?
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Yeah. It was a day trip that happened quite a lot
0:06:09 > 0:06:10throughout the year.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It was, like, my little safe haven.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16So, what was the attraction about going to Haworth?
0:06:16 > 0:06:20- The fact that I'm such a drama queen.- Right.- As you well know, Len.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23And I've got this fairytale mind.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25And, of course, the Brontes.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- Right.- And I love the Brontes.
0:06:27 > 0:06:32- I think, literally, in my former life, I was Emily Bronte.- Really?
0:06:32 > 0:06:37- Yes.- So, there was Emily, there was Charlotte, and who was the other?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39- And Anne. - Anne was the other one.- Yes.
0:06:39 > 0:06:44It was just, the knowledge, what they did, these three sisters.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47They had this very mysterious life and it always interests me.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50The more I read, the more I wanted to learn about them and, obviously,
0:06:50 > 0:06:53when we get there, you can see that it's there for the taking.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57- There's so much you can learn about the girls. You know?- Yeah.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59So, who would have been in the car with you?
0:06:59 > 0:07:03The normal outing in the car would be Mum driving
0:07:03 > 0:07:06and me in the passenger seat. I'm still in the passenger seat.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- Now, at 39, I still can't drive. - Right.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11My brother and my dad were dragged along a lot of the time.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13You know, you can tell with blokes,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15they want to be at home watching the cricket.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16- Do you know what I mean?- Yeah.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19They don't want to be walking up cobbled streets, looking at culture,
0:07:19 > 0:07:20- like me and Mum do.- No.
0:07:20 > 0:07:24- So, it always became a me-and-Mum thing.- Right.- I liked it that way.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27She liked the same things that I did and I like same things she did.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- So we had great days out. - Oh, how lovely.- Yeah.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33It's an especially precious journey for Lisa,
0:07:33 > 0:07:38as in 2012 she sadly lost her mum.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40My mum was a firecracker.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44She was called Catherine. You know Catherine wheel at bonfire night?
0:07:44 > 0:07:49That's my mum. Spinning away. Big personality. Wonderful laugh.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Lit up a room.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54Yeah, it literally is monkey see, monkey do with me and my mum
0:07:54 > 0:07:55and I'm proud of that.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59Within my career, it was a bit like she became my PA.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01So she'd come everywhere with me when I was on tour,
0:08:01 > 0:08:02when I was filming.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05- She was my backbone. You know?- Yeah. - She was brilliant.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08So, she was always there by my side and helping me
0:08:08 > 0:08:10all the time, which was great.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16For Lisa and her mum, 1992 was all about getting to Haworth,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19but there was a lot of other things going on that year, too.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Nigel Mansell became the most successful
0:08:26 > 0:08:28British Grand Prix driver of the time.
0:08:28 > 0:08:32After being crowned World Champion, he announced his retirement.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34I've been driving for 30 years,
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I represented England at the age of nine in karts.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41Here I am, 30 years later, and, you know,
0:08:41 > 0:08:43perhaps I can say it, I think I am World Champion now.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46It was the end of an era
0:08:46 > 0:08:48for Prince Charles and Princess Diana,
0:08:48 > 0:08:51who formally announced their separation.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Today, the couple had separate engagements,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56a pattern for the future as we now know.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59The Princess of Wales showed no sign that she knew about this
0:08:59 > 0:09:00afternoon's announcement.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Reporters tried to ask questions,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05but the Princess ignored them.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10It wasn't a great year for the Queen, either,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14as she watched fire tear through her beloved Windsor Castle,
0:09:14 > 0:09:17causing around £37 million worth of damage.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21And making it all the way to number one in the UK charts
0:09:21 > 0:09:24were American pretty boys Charles and Eddie
0:09:24 > 0:09:26with their soulful hit...
0:09:26 > 0:09:29# Look into my eyes Can't you see they're open wide?
0:09:29 > 0:09:35- # Would I lie to you, baby? Would I lie to you?- Oh, yeah!
0:09:35 > 0:09:38# Don't you know it's true Girl, I'm in love with you
0:09:38 > 0:09:39# Would I lie to you?... #
0:09:39 > 0:09:41I think that's enough of that.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44In fact we need a bit of bit of peace and quiet,
0:09:44 > 0:09:48and where better to take five than by these wonderful moors?
0:09:49 > 0:09:55- Eh?- See?- Oh!- This is proper beauty. The views and everything.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58It's the way it's, like, so completely untouched
0:09:58 > 0:09:59and they keep it that way.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I guess this is how you would have known it
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- as a young girl coming here. - Absolutely.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Me and Mum, rather than take the motorway route,
0:10:07 > 0:10:09we'd take the scenic route, we'd pull in here, literally,
0:10:09 > 0:10:11and just sort of embrace that.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13- Yeah. - Don't you find it really romantic?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- Of course it is.- I do.
0:10:15 > 0:10:19You know, you look at this and you can understand the Brontes
0:10:19 > 0:10:23- getting that romantic feeling in their stories.- Absolutely.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25And the mystery of the moors.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27You can imagine it, a cold winter's night
0:10:27 > 0:10:31and that's what portrayed all the time. It's amazing.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35- And the lovely little farmers' cottages.- Yeah.
0:10:35 > 0:10:36And all the heather.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39That's what I was saying, like, I always envisaged
0:10:39 > 0:10:41having this basket on my arm and, like,
0:10:41 > 0:10:43running through the heather and everything.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44- It'd be fantastic.- Yeah.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48And you pray that it's, obviously, going to stay like this for ever.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Well, why wouldn't it? Who would want to come along and spoil it?
0:10:52 > 0:10:53Because it's just perfect.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Patrick and Mariah Bronte moved to Haworth
0:11:03 > 0:11:07with their daughters in the early 19th century.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09At that time, it was unthinkable
0:11:09 > 0:11:11that the sisters could become published authors.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14But they had other ideas.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Johnnie Briggs knows all things Bronte.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19They're middle-class clergyman's daughters.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21They have to earn a living
0:11:21 > 0:11:25and the living that's open to them is to be a governess.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28So it's when they come together in 1845
0:11:28 > 0:11:31and make the decision that they are going to take their own place
0:11:31 > 0:11:34in the world, through their own creativity
0:11:34 > 0:11:36and writing stories and selling them for profit.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41In order for them to take their place in the commercial world -
0:11:41 > 0:11:44the world belonging to men - they had to use pseudonyms.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49They had names of Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50They never said they were men,
0:11:50 > 0:11:53but that world will always assume that they are men.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57It is the moors, this wonderful landscape,
0:11:57 > 0:12:00that is the wild workshop of their imagination.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03It's the elemental forces of nature that rage around
0:12:03 > 0:12:05this wonderful landscape
0:12:05 > 0:12:09that become the backdrop to the characters and stories.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18Back in 1992, Lisa and her mum
0:12:18 > 0:12:21had an hour-long journey from their home to Haworth,
0:12:21 > 0:12:25but the scenery alone wasn't enough to keep them entertained.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27So, what would you get up to, you and your mum?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30Usually, at traffic lights, me and Mum'd be pelting out the song,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32like, in our own little world.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35- Oh right.- Never bothered at all. - Yeah.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- So, you'd have a little singsong, would you?- Oh yeah. Always.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- We love a singsong. - I've got a CD in here.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44Let me see if I can get this old thing going a bit.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I think it's that.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Wait a minute.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Oh! It's jazz hands!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55# Life's candy and the sun's A ball of butter... #
0:12:55 > 0:12:57- It's Barbara!- Yes!
0:12:57 > 0:13:01# Don't bring around a cloud To rain on my parade!
0:13:01 > 0:13:04# Don't tell me not to fly I've simply got to
0:13:04 > 0:13:08# If someone takes a spill It's me and not you!
0:13:08 > 0:13:10# Who told you you're allowed To rain
0:13:10 > 0:13:12# On my parade? #
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Now we kick!
0:13:14 > 0:13:16- # I'll march my band out... # - Proper jazz hands!
0:13:16 > 0:13:18# I'll beat my drum... #
0:13:18 > 0:13:19On the drums!
0:13:19 > 0:13:24# And if I'm fanned out Your turn at bat, sir
0:13:24 > 0:13:26# At least I didn't fake it,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29# Hat, Sir, I guess I didn't make it!
0:13:29 > 0:13:31# Get ready for me now Cos I'm a comer
0:13:31 > 0:13:35# I simply gotta march My heart's a drummer!
0:13:35 > 0:13:41- # Don't bring around a cloud To rain on my parade!- Parade!
0:13:41 > 0:13:44# I'm gonna live and live now
0:13:44 > 0:13:47# Get what I want and know how... #
0:13:47 > 0:13:50- Do you like it?- I love it.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Honestly!- Proper stage school.- Yeah!
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Here comes the big bit now. The big finale.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00# ..wham! One shot, one gunshot and bam!
0:14:00 > 0:14:03# Hey, Mr Arnstein
0:14:05 > 0:14:06# Here...I...am! #
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- Way-hey!- I love it! I love it! Aah!
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Ah! It was like sitting next to Barbara,
0:14:15 > 0:14:19- going across the moors.- Oh, you flatter me. You flatter me, Len!
0:14:19 > 0:14:20You flatter me!
0:14:22 > 0:14:25When the Brontes first moved to Haworth in the 1820s,
0:14:25 > 0:14:28they lived here in a building called The Parsonage.
0:14:28 > 0:14:32It's now a museum dedicated to all things Bronte,
0:14:32 > 0:14:36and is the first place to go for any Bronte fan.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40It was top of Lisa's list when she came here, back in '92.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Oh-ho! Lisa!
0:14:42 > 0:14:45Oh, look! See, it's how I remember it.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Oh, it's just amazing.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51- It's hard to imagine that they would have been in this garden.- I know.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- You know? It's just... - Oh, look!- Incredible.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- Sir, could I align you in, please? - Never!- Come on, sir.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- Please, enter the house. - Catherine, please.
0:15:01 > 0:15:02Oh, thank you, sir.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Love it!
0:15:04 > 0:15:06The Parsonage has been lovingly restored
0:15:06 > 0:15:09to how it would have been when the Brontes lived here.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12They've even got the original furniture the family used.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15The dining room is usually cordoned off,
0:15:15 > 0:15:19but I've managed to pull a few strings to get us special access.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21So, this is the dining room.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23The Bronte sisters must have sat here.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26- Well, in that chair. - I know. I can't believe I'm here.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28As a kid, I stood behind the barriers,
0:15:28 > 0:15:30like, never being allowed to even go near.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Now I'm sat at the table where the girls would have written everything.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36- It's amazing. - Well, contain yourself.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39There something else just going to come in.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42- Oh-ho!- Oh, Len!
0:15:42 > 0:15:44The first edition Wuthering Heights.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47This is normally in a cabinet and they're here.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I really want to touch them.
0:15:49 > 0:15:51Well, you can't. You can look at them.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54- So, look, we've got Wuthering Heights.- Yeah.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56All the first editions.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00- I can't believe it.- You nearly touched them, then. Go on. No!
0:16:00 > 0:16:02- You know me. - Naughty-naughty-noo-noo.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05I can't come here and not do that. This is, like, my idea of heaven.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09My ultimate favourite is, obviously, Wuthering Heights.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12You know, and my fantasy brain, me skipping through the moors.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15You know, wind in my hair. Just as Cathy would be there.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Waiting, waiting for Heathcliff to just rescue me.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Do you think it was your love of the Brontes
0:16:20 > 0:16:23and the books that got you wanting to act?
0:16:23 > 0:16:27I really feel that the Brontes really put it in my head
0:16:27 > 0:16:30to the literacy side and the performance side
0:16:30 > 0:16:34and me wanting to be them and to react and be the actress,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37you know, that they created in these brilliant books. Yeah.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39I think it really put me on the map.
0:16:39 > 0:16:44- As a child, were you always in sort of an acting fantasy world?- Yes.
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Dressing up?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48When I was a kid, everything was fantasy and, literally,
0:16:48 > 0:16:49I'd put my grandma's heels on.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52I loved the clanking of the heels, being like a dolly, and everything.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Everything was fairytale and a performance.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56That's what I loved. All the time.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Again, that's what drove me then to join drama school.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00It was inevitable.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I want to recreate that early childhood Bronte passion.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07and I've got the perfect way to do it.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12I thought, maybe, we could re-enact a scene from Wuthering Heights.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Oh! Amazing. Yes.- So...
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Oh, I love it! I love it! It's like dressing up!
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Look at you. See?
0:17:22 > 0:17:24This is a wee bit small for my size.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30- Oh no!- Do you love it? - I love doing it. Honestly!
0:17:30 > 0:17:33- Could I be one of the sisters? Literally.- Yes!
0:17:33 > 0:17:35I've got some script here.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38I have not broken your heart. You have broken it.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Do I want to live? What kind of living would it be? When you...
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Oh, God!
0:17:44 > 0:17:49Would you have to... Shut up! This is serious. I'm not having it.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51- Loving it.- No. You've ruined it. - Yeah. Sorry.- So...
0:17:51 > 0:17:54And the Bafta for best interpretation goes to Len.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- So, we now go to the pink bit, which is you.- OK.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02"Oh, let me alone, let me alone," sobbed Catherine.
0:18:02 > 0:18:04That's the narrator, "But I've done wrong,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06"I'm dying for it. Is it love?
0:18:06 > 0:18:12"You left me too, but I won't upbraid you. I forgive you.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14"Forgive me."
0:18:14 > 0:18:16SHE GASPS
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- It's like real! That was like, really proper.- Yeah.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22"It is hard to forgive.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27"And to look at those eyes and feel those wasted hands.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33"My answer, kiss me again and don't let me see your eyes."
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Oh!
0:18:34 > 0:18:40- I was going to give you a full-on... - Ah, snog!- No, I'm not.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44'It was like we were back in the 1800s, but, do you know what?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47'I think I'll stick to my dancing.'
0:18:49 > 0:18:51There's more to these parts than the Brontes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56That's why I've put together seven of the best things to see and do.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Set in the top of the historic Main Street of Howarth is a little
0:19:01 > 0:19:05shop that's been supplying sweeties for as long as anyone can remember.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Beightons traditional sweet shop is an Aladdin's
0:19:09 > 0:19:13cave of candy that will take you right back to your childhood.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Then why not take a ride on the Shipley Glen cable tramway?
0:19:17 > 0:19:21It's Britain's oldest cable-hauled tramway not on cliff
0:19:21 > 0:19:24and was built by a local entrepreneur.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Richard Freeman is on track with the facts.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29The tramway was first
0:19:29 > 0:19:31opened on the 18th of May 1895,
0:19:31 > 0:19:35when it was built by a local entrepreneur called Sam Wilson.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39And it was built to transport passengers from where we're
0:19:39 > 0:19:43standing now, into the bottom of Shipley Glen.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46The tramway itself has a 20-inch rail,
0:19:46 > 0:19:49the distance between the top and bottom stations is only
0:19:49 > 0:19:53a quarter of a mile. It takes 2¼ minutes.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56We had 22,000 passengers in 2015, which is quite
0:19:56 > 0:20:01remarkable for a small organisation running Saturdays and Sundays.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07'It wasn't just the Bronte sisters that attracted Lisa and her mum
0:20:07 > 0:20:09'to Howarth in 1992, either -
0:20:09 > 0:20:12'a visit to this shop was high up on the itinerary.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15'It's crammed with the sort of spiritual books,
0:20:15 > 0:20:19'cards and gems that the young Lisa loved.'
0:20:19 > 0:20:23- Now, changing the subject somewhat...- Yeah.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26What is it about this shop that you, you know,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28liked always to come back to?
0:20:28 > 0:20:32Yeah, I've always been, since a very little girl, very spiritual
0:20:32 > 0:20:35and I've loved crystals and energies and auras.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38So we'd always come in here, every time we came to Howarth.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41And I'd always want a trinket or a new crystal or a new pendant
0:20:41 > 0:20:43or new books and stuff.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46But the best time we ever came, we came in the shop
0:20:46 > 0:20:48and I was like, "I really want to start doing angel readings."
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Cos I think that everyone has an angel on their shoulder in life.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53- They're everywhere.- Yeah.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55And so we came in the shop and, basically, I was like,
0:20:55 > 0:20:57"I want angel cards."
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- To this day I still use them and I love them.- Do you?- Yeah.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04- Is there any here?- Well, because I knew we were coming to Haworth
0:21:04 > 0:21:07and we might come near here, I've brought my angel cards,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- which were actually bought in this very store.- Right.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Shall we see how many angels are around you today?
0:21:13 > 0:21:16- I'm sure that I'm loaded. - You are, course you are.- Yeah.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19Right, well, you give them a tiny little shuffle.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22So I'm going to just do your three cards the way I do it and,
0:21:22 > 0:21:26hopefully, your angels are going to give you a nice little message.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28- OK, oh.- So, basically, you go through there and you drag me
0:21:28 > 0:21:31out three cards, wherever you're feeling the energy from.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Put one to the left, one in the middle and one at the side.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37That's your first one, yeah. Now, middle one.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40And then the third one on the side, wherever you're getting the feeling from.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- I'm going to have that top one. - You're having the top one?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Brilliant. OK, so, let's have a little look at this one.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- So, you've got Body Care.- Oh, oh!
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Oh, you're so ripped, Leonard. You're so ripped.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Body Care.- Body Care.- Well, that's got me in one, actually.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Right, let's see what they're saying.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59So, they're saying, "The angels urge you to care for your physical body.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02"You are asked to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly
0:22:02 > 0:22:05"and avoid toxins." Happy with that one?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07That's your middle one. Playfulness! Oh, that's me and you.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Oh, yeah!- That's me and you, isn't it?- Yeah, yeah!
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Right, let's see what they're saying to you. So, Playfulness.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14"Fun and play is the Angel's way.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18"They are now guiding you to add fun to your life..."
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- Evidently - I'm here.- Yeah. - Thank you.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24"..and to know that fun is also a necessity, not just a luxury."
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- That's lovely. - Wow, that is good.- See?
0:22:27 > 0:22:28OK, now, your third and final one.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31- Yeah.- Children. OK, so, the angels are saying,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34"New children may be coming into your life very soon."
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Oh.- Do you know what?- Go on, go on.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43- Five weeks ago...- Yeah?- ..Alice came into the world,
0:22:43 > 0:22:45my first grandchild.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49- Aw, Len!- I wonder if that's that. - Yeah, see.- Little Alice.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51- I like it.- Aw, see.
0:22:51 > 0:22:55Now, I'll tell you what I'm going to do, I'd like you to shuffle them.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57OK.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- Shuffle away, OK. Careful.- Careful. - Yeah, now, take three.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- OK, oh, OK, OK. - SHE WINCES
0:23:05 > 0:23:09- Take three. One, oh, yes.- One.- Two.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13- Two.- And a number three. Up here? - Three, thank you, Len.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17- OK, thank you. - Are you doing me a reading? Oh.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20- Focus, oh.- Focus.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23- "Think about what you want..."- Yeah?
0:23:23 > 0:23:26- "..not what you don't want." - Love it.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28- Next one.- OK, next one.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Listening, oh.- Listening!
0:23:30 > 0:23:35"This card is a validation from your angels
0:23:35 > 0:23:39"that you are really listening
0:23:39 > 0:23:41"to old Len Goodman.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45- "And pay attention very carefully..."- Yes?
0:23:45 > 0:23:49- "Focus and listen."- OK.
0:23:49 > 0:23:54- Last one.- You're very good at this, Len, I'm very impressed.
0:23:54 > 0:23:58- Romance, oh!- Romance, oh, yes. - Love is in the air.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02"This card signifies that your angels have heard your appeals
0:24:02 > 0:24:09"for romance and you are going to be taken with Len Goodman,
0:24:09 > 0:24:12"who you will focus on throughout and listen to..."
0:24:12 > 0:24:16- Yeah.- "..for a nice cup of tea and some cake."
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Oh, now you're talking!
0:24:18 > 0:24:23- Now you're making me happy. - So, here we go. Put your cards away.
0:24:23 > 0:24:28- Oh, cup of tea and a cake? - Now you've got me.- Yeah, see!
0:24:28 > 0:24:31'These angels have got me all aflutter, I tell you.'
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Now, no holiday is complete without sampling the local food.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39When Lisa and her family came to Howarth in 1992, there was
0:24:39 > 0:24:42one place they'd always visit.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46- So, was this the tearooms you came to?- Absolutely.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48You can't come to Howarth and not have a lovely pot of tea
0:24:48 > 0:24:50and a little treat, as well.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53- We'd always come somewhere like this every time we came, yeah.- Yeah?
0:24:53 > 0:24:56When did you get your first big break?
0:24:56 > 0:25:00My first big break was, obviously, Emmerdale, playing Mandy Dingle.
0:25:00 > 0:25:04- Oh!- Yeah, when I got Mandy, literally, I was put on the map.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06You know, brilliant storylines,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09met brilliant actors that I got to work with.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12And Mandy was only for one episode, you know, originally.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14Only one ever for one, yeah.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- You were there for one episode and you did seven and a half years?- Yes.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19So, they brought me back and brought me back again.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21And they said, "Do you want a year's contract?"
0:25:21 > 0:25:23Of course, I said yeah,
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- and there I was, seven and a half years later...- Ah!
0:25:25 > 0:25:27..with, as I'm told, one of the most popular soap
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- characters in history, which I'm very proud of.- Yeah.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Yeah. It was crazy, Len, honestly.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34I remember, at the time, going into my local supermarket,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36and, literally, cos it was my storyline,
0:25:36 > 0:25:40my face was on the front cover of every single TV magazine.
0:25:40 > 0:25:43- Yeah.- And, of course, my life flipped from that very day.- Yeah.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47- Do you fancy a cake?- It'd be rude not to.- It would, wouldn't it?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48SHE LAUGHS
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- I'll just call for the cake, I think.- Oh.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55Cake? Cake! Cake time, please!
0:25:55 > 0:25:56Bring on the cake!
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- You have such power, Len.- I know.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03'Ho-ho-ho, yum, yum, pig's bum, you can't have none!'
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Oh, look at that!- Oh!
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Heaven, heaven on an actual tray.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11What was your favourite moment on Emmerdale?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13Oh, favourite moment on Emmerdale...
0:26:13 > 0:26:16There's so many, after all those years. But, I have to say,
0:26:16 > 0:26:18because it's, of course, what the public wanted as well,
0:26:18 > 0:26:21was when they married Mandy and Paddy off.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24The writers tormented it and tormented it, over and over again.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27You know, we broke up, got back together and then, finally,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29they married us off.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32And true Mandy style, where did I spend my wedding night?
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- In prison, of course I did. - Yeah, of course.- Of course I did.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37Yeah, so, that's definitely my favourite moment.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40But, after Emmerdale, Lisa went on to even greater things,
0:26:40 > 0:26:44hosting one of ITV's biggest entertainment shows.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50Of course, You've Been Framed, you thought Jeremy Beadle.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- Yeah.- And suddenly, he's gone, so it must have been a bit of anxiety.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Of course, the pressure was on.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57You know, it's prime time, Saturday night.
0:26:57 > 0:26:59Taking over from Jeremy Beadle,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02who'd done brilliant on the show and it was very successful.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06So, yeah, I went out there, was myself, had a ball, loved every
0:27:06 > 0:27:10minute of it and the next thing, the figures of the show soared.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15- Ooh, come on!- And everybody accepted me. Yeah, it was brilliant.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18The pressure was off then, so it was like, everyone's accepted me
0:27:18 > 0:27:22doing the show, so keep going as I can. It was ace.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Almost as ace as this lovely spread.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33While we finish off the scones, it's time for the next instalment
0:27:33 > 0:27:38of my seven top tips for a heavenly trip in and around Howarth.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Bolton Abbey is in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales,
0:27:42 > 0:27:44on the banks of the River Worth.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47You can explore the ruins of this ancient priory
0:27:47 > 0:27:51and discover a landscape full of history and legend.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55Oakworth is a Pennine village, overlooking the Worth Valley.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Its historic railway station was a filming
0:27:57 > 0:28:02location for the classic 1970 film version of The Railway Children.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Graham Mitchell is taking the platform.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Well, I was lucky enough to be cast as the train guard on most
0:28:08 > 0:28:10of the sequences that were taken
0:28:10 > 0:28:12here, at Oakworth Station.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15One of many volunteers from Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
0:28:15 > 0:28:18Preservation Society who were called in to operate
0:28:18 > 0:28:21the trains during the filming.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Oakworth Station is the most visited place in the village,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27of course, because of The Railway Children film itself.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30And the Railway Society has gone to great lengths to maintain
0:28:30 > 0:28:33this station as it would have been in 1905, which is exactly
0:28:33 > 0:28:37the time when The Railway Children is supposed to have taken place.
0:28:44 > 0:28:49Well, this area is steeped in literary history, isn't it?
0:28:49 > 0:28:52And our Lisa was obviously inspired.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55'And, now, we've seen her in dozens of challenging
0:28:55 > 0:28:56'and intriguing roles.'
0:28:56 > 0:28:59So, you know, there you are on Emmerdale, right.
0:28:59 > 0:29:03- You're there for seven years, or so.- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05- It was pretty secure.- Yeah.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08And yet, you said, "No, I'm going to move on."
0:29:08 > 0:29:13- Yeah.- That's a really brave thing to do. What made you want to do that?
0:29:13 > 0:29:16Curiosity, from what I was taught at drama school, that there
0:29:16 > 0:29:20are hundreds of thousands of scripts out there to be read,
0:29:20 > 0:29:23you know, hundreds of thousands of parts to be played.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26There's so many elements - hosting, radio, film -
0:29:26 > 0:29:28within in our industry, you know, dancing...
0:29:28 > 0:29:30- Yes.- ..that we can do.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Yeah, but you didn't take the easy option, you've done some
0:29:33 > 0:29:37pretty hair-raising and dangerous parts, really, haven't you?
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42They're real people. I like playing real characters.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46My proudest moment was, certainly, when I did Fat Friends.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48When I got this call that they had this part in mind, of Rebecca,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51very tragic soul, self-harmer and all that.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55And it was that deglamorization and I wanted to get in there, with
0:29:55 > 0:29:59- the glasses, looking horrendous, but that's the person she was.- Yeah.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01That was the character.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04And when your peers ring you up and go, "Do you know what, Lis?
0:30:04 > 0:30:06"You did good there."
0:30:06 > 0:30:08- That's...- Yeah.- That's... Money can't buy that.- No.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11- That's a really special, special thing.- Yeah.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15Do you know, I think that shows a lot about your character.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18That you're brave. You're not...
0:30:18 > 0:30:22You don't play it safe, you don't go for the roles where you
0:30:22 > 0:30:25- come across all sweet, innocent and charming.- No.
0:30:25 > 0:30:29I think it shows a lot about you and what you're made of.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31- Shall we wander on, lonely as a cloud?- Aw!
0:30:31 > 0:30:35- See, a little bit of Wordsworth. - Look, see! Very impressed.- Yeah.
0:30:35 > 0:30:38Well, come on, then.
0:30:38 > 0:30:45Lovely. Do you know what? This is like a green dance floor.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49Now, I know it was a while back you did the old Strictly,
0:30:49 > 0:30:52but you were terrific on it. SHE LAUGHS
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Now, do you remember any salsa?
0:30:55 > 0:30:58HE SINGS TO HIMSELF
0:30:59 > 0:31:02- Still got it.- Oh, look at that!
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Go on, girl!
0:31:04 > 0:31:06Look at them hips!
0:31:06 > 0:31:10HE SINGS SALSA TUNE
0:31:13 > 0:31:15And underneath you go!
0:31:15 > 0:31:18Oh!
0:31:18 > 0:31:22- I'm dancing with Len! - Whoa!- I love it!
0:31:22 > 0:31:25- Love it.- Ha-hey!
0:31:25 > 0:31:29- Thank you!- Ta-da!
0:31:29 > 0:31:32- Oh, just dancing the day away. - Dancing the day away.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35'As Brucey might say, didn't she do well?'
0:31:40 > 0:31:44With its cobbled streets and vintage architecture,
0:31:44 > 0:31:48it's easy to see why thousands of visitors flock to Haworth each year.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51But it's not just a tourist destination -
0:31:51 > 0:31:54it's also home to over 6,000 people.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57Local resident and shop owner Julie Rhodes has watched Haworth
0:31:57 > 0:31:59change over the years.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Well, I've lived in Haworth all my life.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05So I've certainly seen quite a lot of changes, from Haworth being
0:32:05 > 0:32:10a real sort of industrial place with operational mills.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Everybody's mother seemed to work in the mills.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16We had, probably, four or five mills then in the area that were
0:32:16 > 0:32:20working, still into textiles.
0:32:20 > 0:32:24A lot of the roads were rough and unmade.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27It's only in the last, probably even, 30,
0:32:27 > 0:32:3135 years where these roads have been tarmac.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34You sort of went through a transition period, the '60s,
0:32:34 > 0:32:37the '70s, to the '80s.
0:32:37 > 0:32:41It's become more of a sort of leisure destination.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45Not just for tourists, but for people that live in the area.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51I'm in Yorkshire with Lisa Riley,
0:32:51 > 0:32:56retracing her childhood holiday of 1992. Inside the St Michael
0:32:56 > 0:32:59and All Angels' Church is the Bronte Memorial Chapel.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03It was here that Patrick Bronte, the father of the sisters,
0:33:03 > 0:33:08worked for over 40 years. He was a campaigner and secured clean
0:33:08 > 0:33:11water for residents and also built a Sunday school.
0:33:11 > 0:33:15Well, of course, this is the church where the Brontes used to pray
0:33:15 > 0:33:20- and their father was the minister. - Yeah.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23This place, more than anywhere in Bronte village, means
0:33:23 > 0:33:26the most to me, cos it's the one I'm so connected to with my mum here.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28- Yeah.- Like, more than anywhere.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31- And, also, obviously, the Bronte girls are buried here.- Yeah.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34I think whenever you speak to people, friends and family
0:33:34 > 0:33:37of mine that have been to Bronte village, the first thing they say is,
0:33:37 > 0:33:39- "Did you go to the church?"- Yeah.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43The first thing, because of the history here and the fact that the girls are laid here.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47- Yeah.- And, as a family, the leader of the pack, you know, was the dad.
0:33:47 > 0:33:51- This was his workplace.- Yeah. - You know, day in, day out.
0:33:51 > 0:33:55- And there is a little plaque down the bottom there.- Yeah.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58- Shall we go and have a look? - Yeah, come on.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02So, here we are, Len. This is the plaque.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Obviously, Emily and Charlotte.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07- Yeah, and they were so young, weren't they?- Yeah.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09- Emily's 30.- Yeah.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12And Charlotte is nearly 39.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14- Yeah, it's very cold in the north, Len.- Yeah.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17They got cold very, very quickly.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20I think this chapel is a very special place for you.
0:34:22 > 0:34:27Yeah, I think the girls lost their mum from a very young age
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- and they were successful and I lost my mum.- Yeah.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Coming here with Mum, it's very close to my heart,
0:34:33 > 0:34:36- so I have a real sense of belonging here. It's lovely.- Yeah.
0:34:36 > 0:34:42You know, I used to go with my mum to the seaside, to Broadstairs.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46And whenever I go there now, I always feel a bit closer to my mum.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49I do, I know. There's a real feeling I've got today
0:34:49 > 0:34:51and that's what I love about it. Because the memories that
0:34:51 > 0:34:54you've given me, by not only coming to Haworth and Bronte village,
0:34:54 > 0:34:58but here, especially, the chapel, means the world to me.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00It was mine and my mum's little safe haven.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03- Yeah, it's lovely.- Thank you.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06Haworth really does have emotional memories for Lisa,
0:35:06 > 0:35:10but there's something she didn't get to do when she came here in '92.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16While we head there,
0:35:16 > 0:35:21here's the final instalment of my seven tips for any visit to Haworth.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24Bingley Five-Rise lock staircase is the most spectacular
0:35:24 > 0:35:27feature of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
0:35:27 > 0:35:32Rising 60 feet into the air, each lock opens from one to another,
0:35:32 > 0:35:35with the top gate becoming the bottom to the next.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38That calls for some careful canal manoeuvring.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40Eureka!
0:35:40 > 0:35:43Hey, that's the name of The National Children's Museum.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46It has hundreds of interactive, hands-on exhibits
0:35:46 > 0:35:49designed to keep little ones entertained for hours.
0:35:49 > 0:35:53And if you're the big kid who wants to relive playtime,
0:35:53 > 0:35:57then take a trip down memory lane to the Illkley Toy Museum,
0:35:57 > 0:36:00where there's over 2,000 years of history to be found.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03Alex is the top dog in this toy town.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05The Toy Museum is a private
0:36:05 > 0:36:07collection of myself and my husband.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09We've been collecting about 20 years
0:36:09 > 0:36:12and the museum's been open about 13 years.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16We started with board games and small cars, such as Dinky's
0:36:16 > 0:36:18and Corgi's.
0:36:18 > 0:36:23Then we moved on to dolls' houses and the miniature Victorian shops
0:36:23 > 0:36:25and houses that you see.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29So, the oldest item is a small terracotta doll from Greece,
0:36:29 > 0:36:324th century BC.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34It's a little dancing doll, which would've been
0:36:34 > 0:36:38hung on the end of a stick and moved to look as if it was dancing.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway runs through
0:36:46 > 0:36:50the heart of Bronte country and was opened in 1867.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53It's now preserved as a heritage railway line.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57Teenage Lisa didn't get to appreciate it back in '92,
0:36:57 > 0:36:59but I think we can make up for that today.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05Ho-ho-ho! Oh, I've got a treat in store for you.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07- Right, what's this?- Oh, no!
0:37:07 > 0:37:11- Well, you know, I've loved it, we've done the Brontes.- Yeah.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Right, and I thought, "Let's do something maybe a little bit
0:37:14 > 0:37:15- "different."- OK.
0:37:15 > 0:37:21The train. Now, Oh, no, not just any old train, the steam train.
0:37:21 > 0:37:27- Oh, lovely.- Chugging along, through the Yorkshire Moors.- Sounds perfect!
0:37:27 > 0:37:29- Come on.- Shall we?- Yeah! - Fab, come on.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34'This steam-blowing beauty entered service in 1920
0:37:34 > 0:37:38'and spent 45 years thundering across the country.'
0:37:38 > 0:37:42Now, it's fully restored to its former glory.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Look, "Built 1920."
0:37:44 > 0:37:46- There you are, in Derby.- Yes.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49- Isn't that fabulous?- Yeah, you can smell it, can't you?- Yeah.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52- Aw, I love it.- Look at that.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Making it move still involved shovelling
0:37:54 > 0:37:57shed-loads of coal into the furnace.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00'But can Lisa and I do it as good as steam fireman Ralph?'
0:38:00 > 0:38:02- Now, wait a minute, Lisa.- Yes.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07- 20 seconds, who can shovel the most coal in?- Oh, OK.- Ladies first.- Yes.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10- You ready, Ralph? Ready, Lisa?- Yeah, I'm ready!
0:38:10 > 0:38:11And...go.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15Oh, it's heavy, it's heavy.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Oh, see.
0:38:18 > 0:38:22Oh, it's well heavy!
0:38:22 > 0:38:24- Go on, Lis!- Go on, see!
0:38:24 > 0:38:26- Go on, girl, get your back behind it.- See.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28- Five...- Oh, oh!- ..four...- OK, OK!
0:38:28 > 0:38:30..three, two,
0:38:30 > 0:38:33- that's it!- And how many was that?
0:38:33 > 0:38:35That was about 85 shovels.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38- A likely story.- Yeah, yeah.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40- Come on, Len, how many was it? - Move over.- I got my hands dirty.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42Here I go.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47Oh, Len, that was just... I had five bits on mine,
0:38:47 > 0:38:48he's doing one by one.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52- I think we know who's won this already, don't we?- Yeah, yeah.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56- Don't be vulgar. - Not only have I won...
0:38:56 > 0:39:00- That's a proper amount of coal. - Put your back into it, Leonard.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02LISA LAUGHS
0:39:02 > 0:39:05One thing, we may hoot the hooter?
0:39:05 > 0:39:07Yes!
0:39:07 > 0:39:09- Yeah, go on.- OK. - Don't burn yourself on that.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11TRAIN WHISTLE
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Oh! That was ace!
0:39:13 > 0:39:16It was supposed to be a little hoot!
0:39:16 > 0:39:19With the train fired up, no thanks to me, we're ready to go,
0:39:19 > 0:39:21so we'd better take our seats.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23And, while the gorgeous scenery goes by,
0:39:23 > 0:39:27we'll have one final chat about my mate Lisa's fascinating career.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29- Now, you've done TV...- Yeah.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33..you've done stage, you've been on the television,
0:39:33 > 0:39:37which do you prefer, is there one that you love the most?
0:39:37 > 0:39:41What I love this most is the P word, and it's performing.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Whether that be film, television, radio, telly, you know,
0:39:44 > 0:39:46I'm just so blessed to do what I love.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48People say, "What are you? Are you an actress?"
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Are you this, that and the other? And I'm just a performer.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- Yeah.- I love doing everything that the industry involves, really.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57- Yeah.- And I'm blessed that I get to do it.- Right.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00You've been in some massive programmes -
0:40:00 > 0:40:06is there anything you think, "If I could, I'd love to do..."
0:40:06 > 0:40:11- Something, or...- Yeah.- Yeah? - My ultimate dream would be
0:40:11 > 0:40:13a period drama, it really would.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17You know, down in the kitchen, with the hair, with the mop cap,
0:40:17 > 0:40:21- the corset, no teeth.- Yeah, yeah. - I'd love to do something like that.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23- That would be great, it really, really would.- Yeah.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26Well, we've touched on it before, do you think your day
0:40:26 > 0:40:32with your mum in Haworth helped to shape who you became?
0:40:32 > 0:40:36Oh, completely, because mum always let me be who I wanted to be.
0:40:36 > 0:40:41If I wanted to skip round the church and do little role-plays and stuff, she let me.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45Or stand outside the apothecary on the high street in Haworth, you know.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47- Yeah.- She'd let me be silly and do these characters.
0:40:47 > 0:40:51- That set me up for the person I am today.- Yeah.
0:40:51 > 0:40:57- Let me get out. Take my hand, madam. - Aw!- How was that?
0:40:57 > 0:41:01- Wonderful.- Wasn't that great?- A train journey with a true gentleman.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05- Oh, you and I.- It's been amazing. - Oh, it was like Brief Encounter.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07You were brief and I was an encounter.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10Exactly!
0:41:12 > 0:41:16'It's been really lovely to spend the day with Lisa and rekindle
0:41:16 > 0:41:20'those wonderful memories of her holiday, back in 1992.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22'There was drama...'
0:41:22 > 0:41:26Kiss me again and don't let me see your eyes.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29'..and some dancing...'
0:41:29 > 0:41:31- Still got it.- Oh, look at that.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33- Still got it.- Go on, girl. - Look at those hips!
0:41:33 > 0:41:36'..as we boarded a train down memory lane.'
0:41:36 > 0:41:39- TRAIN WHISTLE - Oh!
0:41:43 > 0:41:49- Lisa, I've had a fantastic day. - So have I, it's been awesome.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51Yeah.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55And, listen, I know you used to share this day with your mum
0:41:55 > 0:41:59and I hope, in a little way, I've taken over from your mum.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01It's been so, so fabulous.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04- It has and she'd be so proud, honestly, Len.- Oh, great.
0:42:04 > 0:42:06- Yeah, thank you.- Great.
0:42:06 > 0:42:12Now, talking of memory, this is a scrapbook of all our day together.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Oh, wonderful.
0:42:14 > 0:42:17- So it's a book of memories. - A lovely book of memories.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23For Lisa, a photographic memento of our trip to Haworth,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27which will help her remember our Bronte-inspired adventure.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29But I can't leave without giving her something
0:42:29 > 0:42:31nostalgic for the journey home.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33- Do you remember when we set off?- Yeah?
0:42:33 > 0:42:36- And we had a little singsong? - Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38SHE LAUGHS
0:42:38 > 0:42:41- Barbra Streisand. - Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46- Oh! On cassette?- On cassette, I'm sure you've got a cassette player.- Yeah.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49- An MP3 cassette player. - Yeah.- One of them, yeah.
0:42:49 > 0:42:54- Aw, Len, that's gorgeous.- Oh, it has been a lovely day. Thanks a million.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58Thank you, darling. Aw, you're a gem.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02'It's goodbye from Haworth and the summer of 1992.'
0:43:02 > 0:43:05A truly special place that Lisa shared with her mum, that will
0:43:05 > 0:43:08remain for ever in her heart.