Where the Heart Is

But in those days when I was doing it, really the job was to sort of sit with...

I mean, I worked on a show called Where the Heart Is, which was a very kind of a much loved, very successful ITV show about district nurses in West Yorkshire.

And the...

The lead writer on it was a brilliant writer called Ashley Farrow, who's still super busy and super in demand 30 years on.

to to work on lots of different shows.

Coronation Street, Where the Heart Is, My Parents Aliens.

So, yeah, I was very grateful and worked my way up as a camera operator.

There was still that fire of like, oh, I really want to direct.

The story was co-written by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy curator Douglas Adams, and he returned to Doctor Who in 1986 opposite Colin Baker, playing Meridine in The Mysterious Planet.

He went on to appear in loads of other shows including Peep Show, The Bell, Midsummer Murders and Where the Heart Is.

In 1997 he appeared alongside Charles Dance, Diana Regg and Amelia Fox in the ITV's adaption of Rebecca.

Also been in Casualty, you know, he's been, oh yeah, he's also in Game of Thrones as a, you know, brief moment as playing the High Septon in the end of Series 7.

So, yeah, you know, I don't watch, like, loads of TV anyway, to be honest with you, but...

I know me and Helen, what we tend to do this time of year, you know, we get to, like, wintertime, we'll normally pick something, like, what did we watch last year? We were on for, like, six years, Where the Heart Is.

It's like a...

Wow.