Horsforth

Well, Alistair, I want to start with, if you can take us back to those early years, growing up in Yorkshire with your two brothers, what was life like?

So I grew up mostly in a suburb of Leeds called Horsforth.

I had Johnny who was a year younger than me and my brother Ed who was seven years younger than me.

Johnny and me, from an early age, both started doing sport.

But like, were you outside of the city growing up or were you in Leeds itself?

Well, I grew up in a place called Horsforth, which is it was once the biggest village in England.

And it was absorbed by Leeds Urban District Council.

So it was essentially a suburb when I was growing up there.

Steady, Eddie.

Hilton and Horsforth.

It's going to be a lot spikier now because of the low numbers.

Yeah.

It wasn't really.

It was a college affiliated to it called Trinity and All Saints College in Horsforth.

But I tell everyone it was the university because we kind of use their library and it sounds better.

And I started doing bits on radio air.

On Thursday the 17th of April 1977, 18-year-old Deborah Schlessinger had been out with friends in Leeds.

Deborah worked in a supermarket and still lived with her parents on the Hawksworth Estate in Horsforth, which is situated on the road from Leeds to Bingley.

Deborah took a bus home with her best friend, Pat.

They got off the bus and walked up to the houses in Crayside Walk.

Yeah, so that's another thing I need to sit back and kind of reflect on, uh, my career and these amazing things, like you say, the Brownlee Centre.

We've got a, a pub named after us in Horsforth as well.

You know, uh, every...

I go to a lot of school visits, and they name classrooms or houses after us as well.

So there's lots of, uh, proud things.

Is that in Horsforth? Is that where you're from, Horsforth?

Well, we're actually from Horsforth, yeah.

So, um-