Susan Calman's Grand Day Out Season 9 Episode 2

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00:01I'm on my travels again.

00:03Oh look, season's back!

00:06No!

00:07Enjoying all this wonderful country has to offer.

00:10Woo hoo hoo!

00:12It's absolutely gorgeous!

00:14And of course, I'm in my beloved camper van,

00:16named after one of my favourite people, Helen Mirren.

00:20That man looked very jealous of you, Helen!

00:22We're hunting for treasures.

00:24Now that's a set of keys.

00:26This is incredible!

00:28Finding new pastimes.

00:29Hello, I've got a call for you.

00:31One and two.

00:33Discovering unexpected local customs.

00:36Oh God, oh my!

00:38And making new pals along the way.

00:40Good morning, madam.

00:42Hiya!

00:43You having a grandie out, Rupert?

00:45Yes I am.

00:46We're taking in the sights.

00:48Ta-da!

00:49That's a castle.

00:50Nailed it.

00:51And the sounds.

00:53You can't hear anything.

00:55Loving every moment.

00:59Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

01:01This is a country filled with delights.

01:04Oh, that's lovely.

01:05Cheers.

01:06Chin-chin.

01:07This is exactly the experience I want.

01:09So come along.

01:11On my grand day out.

01:14Come on.

01:15Yes!

01:22This time, I'm discovering more about one of my favourite places.

01:26It is exquisite.

01:29It's beauty.

01:30It's nature at its absolute finest.

01:34It's charm.

01:35A knitted Helen.

01:38Eccentricity.

01:39Anyone else, someone would call the police.

01:41Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

01:42And fun.

01:43One and two.

01:44One and two.

01:45Along the way, I'll meet two of my favourite northerners.

01:49just iconic after all this feels like Wallace and Gromit country it's great to be in wonderful

01:56Yorkshire right Helen I hope you're ready for this we're back in Yorkshire on some beautiful

02:14interesting little windy roads and this time we're on a very special mission on the trail

02:23of a pair of lovable eccentrics famously much of the north of England can lay claim to having

02:31inspired the fantastical fabulous antics of Wallace and Gromit but at over 6,000 square

02:39miles Yorkshire alone is more than enough for this particular grand day out it is like one of

02:48those glorious paintings every time you look at it you see something different that's what Yorkshire

02:53is for me you look at it and you go I haven't spotted that before it's never the same twice

03:00and nothing better to set me up for my adventures than a cup of Yorkshire's finest I'll just engage

03:10Helen's electric windows hold on right two long distance walking routes run through the remote

03:22village of Keld making it the perfect place for a cozy calf I'm gonna do what everyone does I mean

03:32it's just human nature isn't it you can count on Yorkshire for the warmest of welcomes it's like

03:39someone's front room it really is and that's because it is this place was a house until hikers

03:45kept knocking the door to ask where the cafe was there wasn't one but then along came Sally I'm

03:51Susan what is your name oh hi I'm Sally Sally lovely to meet you people just kept stopping all the time

03:57saying where can I get a cup of tea and there was nowhere to get a cup of tea so you basically opened

04:01this because people kept asking you yes and it all started from bacon bats from the back door and a cup

04:08of tea from our kitchen oh my goodness a no-nonsense Yorkshire solution I'd say and the perfect pick-me-up to

04:17get me going lovely cup of tea gorgeous warm fire exceptional view what a way to start our adventure

04:26I'm heading off to mess about on the water experience some bold and daring dance moves feel the force of a

04:41very special waterfall before discovering the precious treasures of Wallace and Gromit's favorite cheese

04:49oh there we are try to avoid it so the thing about Helen when she encounters a pothole she's got

05:06quite tiny little tires and as long as she doesn't get too much of a fright she's okay

05:12it can be quite jarring because modern cars have something called suspension which I think Helen's

05:20slightly missing we're now bouncing our way to the Leeds and Liverpool canal near Bradford

05:26which I've heard is home to a rather unusual event

05:30dragon boat racing is said to have originated as a folk ritual between competing villagers in ancient

05:41China 2,000 years later the colorful exciting and quirky water sport has taken Bradford by storm

05:50with dozens of teams and tens of thousands of people attending one of Britain's biggest dragon boat

05:57festivals stop the boat brilliant reach forward put the blades in the water and you pull the water to

06:07your knee no further than that today's a practice for the big event and I'm getting a little taste of

06:13the action with Tina's crew Tina it's not one of those things I would think oh what am I doing this

06:19weekend I'll try that dragon boat how did you get involved in it a good few years ago somebody said to me at

06:25work do you want to be part of a team and I thought well I've never done anything like that before so

06:29the year I first did it and we came one from last and I had such a fun day and that's yeah that's

06:39what that's what keeps bringing me back they say that dragon boat racing is all about keeping rhythm

06:45and today Tina wants me to keep the beat tell me about the drums in the dragon boat so the drumming

06:52is what keeps us to time right the helm is at the back steering us but you're very much at the front

06:57leading us you look at your paddler to your right and as that that paddle hits the water you drum one

07:05and two one and two is that kind of rhythm drum and bass no banging well let's hope they don't drum me out

07:22I've never felt so tense in my life are you ready go what Susan

07:28in competition the boats could reach 20 kilometers per hour

07:36one and two but I don't think we'll be hitting that speed today

07:44right it's all gone wrong that was not my fault and one and two one and two but even though I've

07:55found my dragon boat rhythm it seems to have left the locals breathing fire

08:01but I'm channeling my inner Ringo star

08:11you're smooth Tina's going like the clappers

08:14and now our dragon boat is flying along the canal

08:20I almost don't have enough time to appreciate we're actually sailing past the beautiful mill

08:29here as well

08:30it's a unique way to take in the sights

08:35and maybe we'll hit top speed after all

08:39I always think if you're driving whether it's in a camper van or otherwise in these country roads you've just got to be confident but careful

08:56you know what I mean you've got to be in control but ready to react

09:02I don't know why I did that little shimmy ready to react

09:06I'm told I'll need to really be on my guard at the next destination

09:11the gloriously named village of Kirby Malzard

09:16all right here we are another wee bump sweetie

09:21here we go

09:22this looks right up my street

09:24I'm quite intrigued because as I was driving in I saw a group of people up here

09:33and I think I can hear some music

09:37they appear to have swords

09:54I assume it's sanctioned

09:59despite the heavy weaponry

10:02this lot seemed like a friendly bunch

10:04I'm Susan what's your name

10:08I'm Ted

10:09Ted how lovely to speak to you Ted

10:11tell me what was I just looking at

10:14that was the Kirby Malzard longsword dance

10:17right

10:17which is probably the most famous longsword dance in the world

10:21it's extraordinary so how long has this been going on for

10:26nobody really knows to be quite honest

10:29they think that longsword in itself which is fairly peculiar to Yorkshire

10:33was brought by the Vikings

10:35we tend to just do it at winter time

10:36right

10:37and part of the reason for that is that the agricultural labourers were out of work

10:41because the ground would be frozen

10:42so they would have to find some way of making money

10:45so they use whatever little bit of talent they had

10:47singing, dancing, playing music or whatever

10:50and they would go from house to house

10:52usually dragging an old plough

10:54and if you didn't contribute to their well-being or the beer fund

10:58they would plough your garden

11:00Ted

11:00yes

11:01hold on a second

11:02they would just plough your garden

11:03yes

11:04in revenge

11:05in revenge yes

11:06it's like an early trick-or-treat kind of thing isn't it

11:09at the end of the dance we form the swords into a lock

11:12and then we find a willing volunteer to be beheaded

11:15right

11:16you're looking at me Ted

11:18well you're willing

11:20I mean fine

11:21fine

11:22it's not a problem

11:23tell you what Ted if you're gonna go

11:24can't think about a place to go

11:26there's a place to go

11:31it's only a dance right

11:33I love it

11:40anyone else someone would call the police

11:43right here

11:45nope

11:46okay this looks like it might be my moment in a minute

11:49believe me

11:51Yorkshire people can talk you into anything

11:54okay

11:55is this a great honour

12:00yes

12:01oh yes

12:02is it

12:03oh it's a great honour

12:05what happens now

12:06we have had them specially sharpened so you should be okay

12:09this feels like a Paul Daniels magic trick that I was expecting

12:13you'll like it not a lot

12:14right

12:15are we ready

12:16five

12:17four

12:18three

12:19two

12:20one

12:21oh god oh my

12:22now Ted that was a little bit more terrifying than I thought

12:28please don't shake your head

12:29at least for a week or so

12:31I've just been beheaded in Kirby Molson

12:37never thought I'd say that

12:41and indeed what an honour it's been

12:47coming up I get a true taste of Wallace and Gromit country

12:51it's got a lovely bouquet

12:53and an extraordinary waterfall

12:55comes alive with the sound of music

12:58I like the mountains

13:00I like the rolling hills

13:14I'm having a grand day out in Wallace and Gromit country

13:17which covers much of the north of England

13:19but I'm searching for signs of the lovable pair in glorious Yorkshire

13:23I'm very lucky because I learned to drive

13:28before satellite navigational systems

13:33and one of the things I really love is reading road signs

13:38brown signs always have a sense of mystery don't they

13:41so I like driving around in hell and seeing where the road takes me

13:46and I'm really intrigued by the signs that are leading me to this stunning part of the Dales

14:02cascading 100 feet over limestone, sandstone and shale

14:06the dramatic hard draw force is England's highest single drop waterfall

14:15and surprisingly it's to be found in the garden of the Green Dragon Inn

14:20owned by Mark

14:22Hello! Hello there!

14:23How did you personally get involved with the waterfall?

14:26Well we weren't looking to buy a waterfall

14:28we came to look to buy a pub

14:30and at that point there were only two in Yorkshire in the Dales available

14:33one had just gone under offer and there was this

14:37Buy a pub, get the waterfall

14:39Yeah, get it sort of free if you like

14:42Mark has since learned his waterfall

14:45inspired writers like Wordsworth

14:47and artists like Turner

14:49as well as some more recent visitors

14:53We've had Kevin Costner

14:54in the famous Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

14:56Is that the bit where he's swimming?

14:58That's right, naked, yeah

14:59Right, uh-huh

15:00Yes

15:02And who can forget

15:03the unmistakable sight of the Hollywood heartthrob

15:06in that revealing scene in the classic 1990s movie

15:12He's not there now, of course

15:14but I expect the waterfall is worth the walk on its own

15:17So it's just up here?

15:18That's right

15:19I'm going that way?

15:20As you turn the corner you can see it in front of you

15:21Amazing

15:22and I promise you no skinny dipping mark

15:23Well

15:24I promise you

15:25No, listen, I promise

15:26that's a promise

15:27that's a pinky promise

15:28Thank you so much Mark

15:30My pleasure, thank you

15:31I'll see you later on

15:32All the best

15:33It is absolutely fearsome looking

15:44You can see why painters and writers have been inspired to recreate it or talk about it

15:52Look at this

15:54The area that it's falling into is in itself vast

16:01And it feels mysterious and it feels magical and it feels special

16:07It's nature at its absolute finest

16:11And around here that's apparently something worth singing about

16:16I like the flowers

16:18I like the daffodils

16:20I like the mountains

16:22I like the rolling hills

16:24I like the firelight

16:26When the lights are low

16:28A-bum-de-ay, a-bum-de-ay, a-bum-de-ay, a-bum-de-ay, a-bum-de-ay

16:33I like the flowers

16:36I like the flowers

16:37Just heading back to Haylen

16:39When I heard some beautiful singing

16:44Which I shouldn't be surprised about given the acoustics around here

16:49And there's a lovely choir just standing on the bridge singing

16:52I like the lovely hills

16:55And it seems they have a mascot too

16:57I like the lovely hills

16:59A-bum-de-ay

17:03What was that?

17:04Beautiful!

17:05Oh!

17:06Yes, that was all for you!

17:08That was all for you

17:09Hello, I'm Susan

17:10What's your name?

17:11Hello, I'm David

17:12And this is Tigger

17:13Oh, Tigger!

17:14You are like Tigger, aren't you?

17:15You're up and down

17:16That was a beautiful, beautiful thing

17:18Oh, thank you

17:19Tell me about your choir

17:20Because we live in the lakes and the Yorkshire Dells

17:22We're used to hill-walking

17:23Yes

17:24And we call them singing walks

17:25We'll walk along and we'd stop somewhere and sing

17:27And then walk on

17:28And we sing in caves and by waterfalls

17:31What a delightful end

17:33To an already spectacular visit

17:36Thank you very much

17:37Thank you very much

17:38Thank you very much

17:39Thank you for the lovely

17:40I've got that jumper

17:42Thank you very much indeed

17:43Thank you very much indeed

17:44Thank you very much indeed

17:45And most importantly

17:46You!

17:47You wee sweetie

17:49Awww

17:55The only difficulty when you come to Yorkshire

18:02Is making sure you concentrate

18:04On the roads

18:06Because the scenery is spectacular

18:09Surrounded by the gorgeous Dales

18:12It is exquisite

18:15Ready for the windy roads, Helen

18:20Now we're winding our way to arguably the most well known Dale of all

18:27Wensleydale

18:30Wensleydale

18:31Wensleydale

18:32Wensleydale

18:33Wensleydale cheese has been around for centuries

18:36But gained global fame

18:38Thanks to Wallace and Gromit

18:40Oh, why'd you come in?

18:43We were just about to have some cheese

18:45Oh no, not cheese

18:47Apparently, the creators chose Wensleydale

18:51As it made Wallace smile widely when he said it

18:54Not even Wensleydale

18:56I've come to a creamery where much of the cheese is made

19:01It comes with quite a history which Martin knows well

19:06Now, before we start tasting any cheese, which I'm very excited about

19:14Can you tell me how it all started?

19:17Well, the original Wensleydale cheese was actually blue

19:20From the Roquefort region of France

19:22It was bought over by the Sturcia monks

19:24Who landed here on the Yorkshire Dales in about 1150

19:28Wow

19:29And the monks went home and they left this wonderful blue cheese recipe

19:32To the farmers' wives

19:33And then over many, many hundred years

19:35Because the better storage conditions in the farmhouses and their larders

19:39They lost the blue out of the cheese almost entirely

19:42They still make the traditional recipe here

19:46But it's the crumbly variety beloved by Wallace and Gromit

19:49That's become the big best seller

19:52So the crumbly cheese was kind of invented for the Second World War

19:57It was what we call the austerity cheese

19:59It was much, much quicker to make

20:01So by making a very quick cheese for the war effort

20:04It aided Winston Churchill

20:06It made Winston and Wallace smile

20:09I hope it does the same for me

20:11Do you sniff cheese? Am I doing the art at the moment?

20:16Of course you can, all our cheese tasters do that

20:18Cheese graters

20:19Yes, it's got a lovely bouquet

20:21Mmm-hmm

20:23Mmm-hmm

20:24Mmm-hmm

20:25Mmm-hmm

20:26Mmm-hmm

20:27It's got a smashing texture

20:29Because it's crumbly but it still keeps its form

20:31It's absolutely beautiful

20:32Correct, it's very good for volume

20:33Next, the blue stuff

20:35I've never enjoyed the blue

20:36But maybe that's all about to change

20:39You're staring at essentially a bowl of my nemesis here

20:42Do try it

20:44Well, I feel like it would be wrong if I didn't try it

20:46But I don't know what's going to happen, Martin

20:48No

21:05No

21:06I love you, Martin

21:11I love your cheese

21:12I think you're a blue cheese person and you're not a blue cheese person

21:16But I doubt anyone leaves this place with a bad taste in their mouth

21:20Sweeten your palate now with the finest crumbly

21:22Mmm-hmm

21:26Mmm-hmm

21:28Oh, that's lovely

21:30Wensleydale, Wensleydale, Wensleydale

21:34It really is a cracking bit of cheese, Gromit

21:41Coming up, I hit the heights in vintage style

21:45Enthusiastic wave incoming

21:47Hello! Hiya!

21:49And go searching for Yorkshire's finest yarns

21:52This is our current top secret project

21:54So this is the top secret project

21:56The whole thing's covered in knitting

21:58I'm having a grand day out in Wallace and Gromit country

22:12It's lovely every time you come over a hill

22:15There's another beautiful view

22:17And it's not just the landscape that's stunning in Yorkshire

22:22Near Bradford on the River Eyre lies a real gem of industrial architecture

22:28Opened in 1853 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

22:35The Victorian textile mill and model village at Saltaire

22:40Is one of the biggest and best preserved on the planet

22:46It's still very much a community

22:48Hiya!

22:49What a pleasure to meet you

22:50And Les is one of those lucky enough to call it home

22:54Welcome to Saltaire

22:57Thank you! I'm really intrigued by it

22:59No idea existed

23:00It's not just one building, is it?

23:02No, it's not just one building

23:04There's 850 houses apart from anything else

23:07Wow, okay

23:08But there is one big building and that's the mill

23:10Is that one there? The massive one right there?

23:12That's the one

23:13And the visionary who created it was Titus Salt

23:16Hence Salt Air

23:19Titus Salt was a deeply religious mill owner

23:22Who provided more than employment

23:24He built his workers an entire village

23:26Of the very highest quality

23:29The village is really very important

23:31Because without the village

23:32There wouldn't be a World Heritage Site

23:34And it's pretty well intact

23:37Yes

23:38There are several public buildings

23:40Victoria Hall

23:41It started off as the Saltaire Club and Institute

23:44It was that for the workers to have a good time?

23:46Good time and learn

23:48It had a library in there as well

23:51That faces two schools

23:54Boys' school, girls' school

23:56When Titus built this mill

23:58It was 20 years before the Education Act, 1871

24:02Which is when we get schooling

24:04Yep

24:05So these things were happening at a time when it was a bit radical

24:10What's your favourite part of this wonderful place?

24:12Well, the Congregational Church here

24:14It's just such a wonderful building

24:16It's grade one listed

24:18He's buried in the mausoleum of the church

24:21Yeah

24:22And the cortege came through the centre of Bradford

24:26100,000 people are said to have lined the route

24:30It says something about how well-regarded Titus Salt was

24:34And what Titus started, others continued

24:45At nearby Shipley Glen, a tramway was opened in 1895

24:49To allow workers to enjoy fresh air

24:51High up on Baldenmoor

24:53It's not trams as I was expecting though, I don't think

24:59But it's very, very beautiful indeed

25:01I need to find someone though, to ask about it

25:04And there's a lightly looking handsome fella here

25:06Hi, I'm Susan, what's your name?

25:08Hiya, John

25:09John, what a pleasure to meet you John

25:11Pleased to meet you, welcome to the tramway

25:13Thank you

25:14This is actually the country's oldest working cable tramway

25:18And John is one of the volunteers dedicated to keeping it alive

25:24It's called a tramway, yes

25:26It's basically a funicular railway

25:28I love a funicular railway

25:29Well that's good

25:30That's good

25:31Yes, I love one of them

25:32Two carriages, known as toast racks after their simple design

25:36Are hauled by steel cable

25:38Up and down the very steep quarter-mile funicular track

25:42I've just been over there hearing about the wonderful Salterre

25:48But was this a later addition to the area?

25:51Yeah

25:52There was an entrepreneur by the name of Sam Wilson

25:54And he thought, I see an opening here

25:56There's all these mill workers down in Salterre and Bradford

26:00Lots of them

26:01So they'll want some fresh air at the weekend

26:03So if they had a method of getting up to the top

26:07To save them walking up that path there in the big Victorian dresses

26:11Absolutely

26:12Getting all wet and soggy

26:13So we decided to build this

26:15There was all sorts of things up there

26:17And it gradually developed, obviously because of the access of the tramway

26:21So we had fairgrounds, helter-skelter and goodness knows what else there

26:25And it was really something

26:29I imagine the journey itself

26:31Oh, that's right

26:32Is a thrilling thing

26:33Yeah, I mean it's not a white knuckle ride, put it like that

26:36Thank goodness, because I don't like them at all

26:42Can I have a go on it?

26:43Of course you can

26:44Is that okay?

26:45But not before I meet the most dedicated volunteer of all

26:49There it is

26:50Thank you

26:51May I just ask, who is this fine fella?

26:53This is Roy

26:54So Roy has his own volunteer badge here

26:57With his identification photograph on it

27:00Just so no one else can pretend to be Roy

27:03And, oh Roy

27:06You're not a guard dog, are you Roy?

27:09Roy's not a guard dog

27:11It's not a guard dog

27:13On its busiest days

27:15This plucky little tramway carried over 20,000 passengers

27:20Oh, with the whistle

27:22But thankfully, things are much more tranquil now

27:26Oh, there we are

27:27Oh, this is brilliant

27:29Because it's really very beautiful as well

27:31On the way

27:34It's got that lovely magical feel about it

27:37Quite simple

27:42But simple pleasures are truly the best things in the world

27:48And as both carriages are hauled by the same cable

27:52Remember

27:53You have to wave at the other carriage

27:56Another simple pleasure is greeting your fellow Toast Drack

27:59On its way back down

28:01Here we go

28:02Enthusiastic wave

28:03Incoming

28:05Hello

28:06They all got the note as well

28:10Isn't this stunning?

28:12From the late 1800s

28:15To the 2020s

28:17And it's still going

28:20Oh, this is brilliant

28:23Not a long journey

28:25But it's an incredibly special one

28:29There's no longer a fun fair at the top

28:32But gift shops are equally thrilling to Kalman's

28:36I'm looking for a souvenir

28:43Yeah, well

28:44What about these?

28:45Tell me about them

28:46Well, these are the wooden trams I've been making

28:48You made these?

28:49Yes, I did, yeah

28:50They're so beautiful

28:52I want the blue one

28:53Because...

28:54You like the blue one?

28:55Well, that's the one I came up in

28:56It's been approved

28:57It's all yours

28:58Thank you for making these beautiful things

29:00You're very welcome

29:01Thanks very much indeed

29:02See you later

29:03Bye-bye

29:04And I'm sure the journey back down

29:06Will be just as lovely

29:07It's one of those slightly magical days in New Yorkshire

29:19Where everything looks absolutely glorious

29:22There we go

29:23That's the indicator

29:24We're all fine

29:26It's just the day to pull over and enjoy the countryside

29:30But you never know who you'll meet on a grand day out

29:37Rupert's dad has just gone for a cup of coffee

29:40And I've been given permission to hang out with Rupert

29:43Yes, have a sniff

29:44Have a sniff

29:45Rupert, Rupert, Rupert, Rupert

29:47Come back, darling

29:48Gromit is a famously clever pup

29:51But are all northern dogs is smart

29:53A crossword should provide the answer

29:55OK, started again, Rupert

29:58It is seven letters

29:59It's the first one

30:00Now, this is the crucial one, Rupert

30:02Because if you get one, you're OK

30:04You've started sniffing again

30:06Which means you have resumed sniffing

30:11I dare say Rupert could mime every one of the answers

30:15But maybe he doesn't have to

30:17You having a grand day out, Rupert?

30:19Yes, I am

30:20That's how he speaks

30:24As Wallace himself would say

30:26Job well done, lad

30:29I'm now heading to a place where top-secret shenanigans

30:32Have become a way of life

30:37For the past five years, a covert group has been leaving

30:40Hand-knitted creations in public places

30:43All over the market town of Hawes

30:47The elusive operators responsible are known as the Hawes Yarn Bombers

30:56Have I found you? Have I found you?

30:59This clandestine group of knitters

31:02You certainly have

31:04Lovely to meet you all

31:06And I'm glad I've tracked you down

31:08Because this is a super-secret thing

31:11Well, our projects are until they go out to the public

31:16Otherwise we're going to have to really blur these faces out everyone

31:19No one knows when the next Yarn Bomb is coming

31:24But when it drops, it raises the town's spirits

31:27As well as a bit of money for charity

31:29And of course, they've been known to pay homage to that passionate knitter

31:34Gromit and his dad Wallace

31:36Although this fella might ruffle a few feathers

31:41How did it all start?

31:43Well, we were a group of friends meeting each week to work on our own projects

31:47And then one of our former members

31:49She is a textile artist and she said

31:51Hey girls, do you fancy doing a bit of yarn bombing?

31:54And it went silent and everyone went, what's that?

31:58Fast forward, we started the first year

32:01We were making small things like butterflies, flowers, squirrels

32:07And then we thought, oh, that went down well

32:09Let's try and see if we can do something a bit bigger

32:12And their latest creation could be the most daring caper yet

32:17So tell me about this, what is this?

32:19This is our current top secret project

32:21So this is the top secret project?

32:23Yes

32:24And it's an afternoon tea

32:25Yes

32:26And it's to cover a grip bin outside a tea room

32:30The detail's incredible

32:32I didn't even notice the legs are covered by knitting

32:34The whole thing's covered by knitting

32:36Yes

32:37Does anyone know you've done this yet?

32:39Or is this super secret?

32:40It's still very secret

32:42It's going to go out hopefully within the next two weeks

32:45Impressive stuff

32:47But all yarn bombers must start somewhere

32:50Would you like to put a shape together?

32:52I can sew

32:53I can sew

32:54Yeah

32:55So those are the various bits for it

32:58I feel like a surgeon on their first day

33:01What do I want to try?

33:02Right?

33:03So the head will go on

33:04Yeah

33:05You can see that

33:06Yeah

33:07Yeah

33:08You can see that so you go on

33:09Subfliver

33:10Thankfully, yarn bombing seems to be about laughs

33:13Just as much as crafting

33:15Can I just check something here?

33:18So it's going to be a nodding shape

33:24Right, it's fine

33:26I feel happy with that

33:27Sadly, I don't think my efforts are going to provide the people of Hawes with anything other than concern

33:33I'm going to take the sheep away with me because I don't wish anyone

33:37Because I mean that's the wrong place for a leg Susan

33:41If you're taking that

33:46Oh, I mean it's just because it's awful

33:48You might as well take this as well

33:50Is that not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in here entirely?

34:01Look at that

34:03A knitted Helen

34:05You've done it so beautifully

34:09With the little flowers

34:12I mean you've not got the dent in the sides

34:16So what we've got is Helen

34:23And the world's sleepiest sheep

34:28Knitted Helen is destined for the mantelpiece

34:33And I think the lady herself might welcome a little yarn bombing

34:37Right

34:38I finally found a friend for Jason Statham

34:44This little sheep here

34:46Brightly coloured

34:48Massive personality

34:49One of my all-time heroes

34:51Ladies and gentlemen

34:52Please welcome to the van

34:54Sue Pollard

34:55So now we have Helen Mirren

34:57Jason Statham

34:58Sue Pollard

34:59That is the definition of a grand day out

35:01Shall we?

35:02Let's get on the road

35:07Coming up

35:09Wallace and Gromit country

35:11It's my dream to have music playing in time with whatever I do

35:15Reveals its precious treasures

35:18Just iconic

35:21My grand day out has brought me to a part of Yorkshire

35:25I'm calling Wallace and Gromit country

35:40I quite like it when Yorkshire is moody

35:42But when the sun is shining it is just the most remarkable place

35:47But it's not all hills and dales

35:53Yorkshire is also home to the vibrant city of Bradford

35:56Which has its own treasures

35:58The National Science and Media Museum houses artefacts from the earliest days of photography, film and television

36:08Is that you?

36:12As well as lots of interactive exhibits

36:15It's my dream to have music playing in time with whatever I do

36:21Oh that's marvellous

36:23Oh

36:30But enough clowning

36:32I'm here to see something very special

36:34The actual photographs from one of the greatest hoaxes of all time

36:44In this room here

36:45Are some of the most important

36:47And believe me when I say it

36:49Most important photographs

36:51Ever taken

36:52The photos known as the Cottingley Fairies

36:57Are a series of images taken by cousins Elsie Wright and Francis Griffith in 1917

37:03Which quickly grew from a simple prank

37:06To a story that caught the imagination of the entire planet

37:10Only those with special training like Charlotte can handle these treasures

37:15So there are two girls just down the road from us here in Bradford

37:22In a place called Cottingley

37:24Who go down to the bottom of their garden

37:26With a camera

37:27And they take some photos of fairies

37:29And lots of people look at these photos

37:31And do not know what to make of them

37:33Because there's no sign of any tampering on those photos

37:36They appear to be real

37:38But are fairies real?

37:40So it causes a massive mystery that spreads around the world

37:44It's absolutely global news

37:46Here I've got a copy of something called The Strand Magazine

37:49There's an article in here by Conan Doyle

37:51Famously the author of Sherlock Holmes

37:53Was probably at this moment the most famous living author

37:56Yes

37:57Arthur Conan Doyle believed that these were real photographs

38:00He certainly argued that they were

38:02He believed in the spirit world and he'd lost a son in the war

38:06So there's potentially something playing into it there

38:09But they're not real fairies are they?

38:11They're not, no

38:13Elsie was a very good artist

38:15And she drew some fairies, put them on paper

38:18Attached them to hatpins and stuck them in the ground

38:20And then posed with them

38:22So there was no in-camera trickery

38:24It was quite old-fashioned trickery really

38:26It was a picture and a hatpin

38:28Yeah

38:29But the cousins soon felt trapped

38:31By what started out as an innocent joke

38:34We'd got a nine-page letter that Elsie wrote in Later Life

38:38And down towards the bottom there's a passage where she talks about

38:42They'd had a serious talk

38:43They'd decided not to explain how they'd done it

38:47I took Frances aside for a serious talk

38:49As the joke had been my own intention

38:52But she begged me not to tell as the Strand Magazine

38:55Had brought her so much teasing at school

38:58And I was also feeling sad for Conan Doyle

39:00He'd recently lost his son in the war

39:02And the poor man was, oh, probably trying to comfort himself with unworldly things

39:07So that's really poignant, isn't it?

39:10Mm-hmm

39:11And I think it helps to understand a bit of why

39:13They held onto this story for so very long

39:16It wasn't really about them

39:18It did get away from them

39:19The people who believed wanted to believe

39:22And I think that's true today still when we're looking at things and going

39:25Is that real?

39:26Mm-hmm

39:27What do I want it to be?

39:28These are absolute treasures

39:30They are

39:31We're so lucky

39:32I'm very lucky

39:33I find it remarkable that these photographs still exist

39:36The Cottingly fairies aren't the only extraordinary objects in here

39:51Oh!

39:53Morph

39:54Yep

39:55No

39:56But certainly for my generation

39:58Just iconic

40:01Isn't it?

40:02Absolutely

40:03Few children of the 70s and 80s

40:06Could forget the tabletop adventures of Morph

40:11Who lived on the TV show Take Heart

40:16This model was made using the original mould

40:19And is so precious we aren't removing it from its box

40:25If you'd said to the 13-year-old, 12-year-old Susan Calman

40:29As I was sitting in my living room

40:31That one day I would see the Morph

40:33Mm-hmm

40:34It's an absolute privilege

40:37Now I'm in for a truly amazing treat

40:43It's only Morph's direct descendants

40:46Wallace and Gromit

40:48And

40:49Little sheep

40:50Yeah, they're nice and safely tucked away in all our special packaging

40:54These figures came from the original models made by Aardman Animations for their Oscar winning series of movies which began in 1989

41:04They epitomise Northern charm and it's so fitting to find them here in Yorkshire

41:10The impact of Wallace and Gromit

41:13Absolutely huge, wasn't it? Especially, I mean I love the wrong trousers

41:17My favourite is, I don't know my ears, Feathers McGraw

41:21Love feathers, a little bit of it

41:22The idea of having an evil penguin that puts a rubber glove on its head and pretends to be a chicken

41:27Mm-hmm

41:28I don't know why it made me laugh for about three hours

41:31These are as important as the Cottingly Fairies, aren't they?

41:33Absolutely, yeah

41:34I mean it's just wonderful, isn't it? To be able to care for this stuff on behalf of everybody

41:39And know that somewhere it's tucked away nicely in its little box and we can get it out when we want to

41:45Thank you so much

41:47This has been the most wonderful visit to the backroom of a museum I think I've ever had

41:52Thank you so much for showing these to me

41:54You're welcome

41:56And finding these beautifully preserved figures seems just the right time to end my journey

42:01It's certainly been a grand day out

42:09Whenever I visit Yorkshire I always leave feeling revitalised and this trip is no different

42:17All I can say to Yorkshire and its wonderful people is

42:20You can't get rid of me now, I love the place

42:22I love the place

42:31Next time I'm hitting the tourist trail on the east coast of Scotland

42:35Whoooooo!

42:37Seeing stunning sights

42:39This is my favourite bridge

42:42And inspirations in Edinburgh

42:45You're Sherlock Holmes mate

42:46End of story

42:47I'll taste the high life

42:49Now well there's a design flaw

42:51Before I take flight

42:53Ooooooh!

42:55On a very grand day out

42:57Wow!

43:17Hi everybody's welcome

43:18And a lovely Monica

43:21I love you

43:23And I like to see you guys

43:25You said we'd love to meet her

43:27I love you

43:29I love you

43:31And now eels

43:33You can love you

43:35You can always be the ones

43:39You can always be the ones

43:41The ones you are

43:43You can always be the ones you

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