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Christa Ackroyd: From the Brontes to Bradford Curry Houses - this is my great Yorkshire life

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As a child Bradford-born Christa Ackroyd would walk these cobbled streets of Haworth with her adopted parents.
She was captivated by the history of this charming area made famous by the Brontë sisters.
Christa herself has helped to put Haworth and the whole of Yorkshire back on the map with her career as the face of ITV Calendar News and then BBC Look North until she was marred in controversy and her contract was terminated by the BBC.
For the first time, Christa shares her own story behind the headlines.

Reporter Sophie Mei Lan for the Mrs Yorkshire podcast sponsored by Whitby Seafoods - the home of scampi.