Robin: This was all stuff me Gran collected up, right from when I was a kid, I need to sort it out, you won’t want to see all that lot!
Lizzie: No, let’s have a look – oh, you’re so young in some of these pictures…
Lizzie: You’ve been working almost your whole life, haven’t you?
Robin: I was about three years old in these first ones, it was all stuff for magazines an’ catalogues, then me mam got me into TV ads, an’ little bits in dramas an’ stuff…anyway –
Robin: – here’s the bit you’ll be interested in…
Lizzie: ‘The Golden Glade’!
Robin: There’s all photos of the cast, like, an’ press cuttings an’ stuff…
Lizzie: Robin, this is wonderful. I love seeing ‘behind the scenes’ pictures.
Robin: Sometimes people think it takes the magic away, if you see how it was all put together.
Lizzie: I like to see that – I think it’s fascinating, and I don’t think it takes the magic away.
Lizzie: I mean look at this fairy! She’s got rollers in her hair –it’s such a funny picture! But I wouldn’t think of that if I watched the series again, I would just see the beautiful fairy.
Lizzie: I would love to see it again…
Robin: Well – I’ve got a DVD, if you really want to see it, you can borrow it.
Lizzie: Could we watch it together, Robin? Or do you get embarrassed watching yourself?
Robin: I don’t know as I would feel like it was me, it was so long ago…I had to watch it over an’ over with me gran, she died when I was thirteen so I haven’t seen it since. I’d like to watch it with you, Lizzie. It’d remind me of watchin’ it with Gran –
Robin: – well, I don’t mean you remind me of me gran! I don’t think that came out very well, did it?
Lizzie: It sounds like you were close to her.
Robin: Yeah…she was me great-gran really, but me real grandparents died in an accident when Mam was just a kid, so she brought Mam up, and then she helped bring me up, Mam did her best but she’s a bit – highly strung I s’pose, an’ she was really young when she had me, so we lived with Gran.
Lizzie: What about your dad?
Robin: Ah well, I don’t know anythin’ about him. Mam said we had to stand on our own two feet so that’s why she got me into the modellin’ an’ all that.
Lizzie: Did you like doing it?
Robin: It was a bit boring sometimes…I did like actin’ though. I liked doin’ the ads and the little parts, an’ then when I did ‘The Golden Glade’ I thought, that’s it – that’s what I want te do for the rest of me life…
Lizzie: But that didn’t happen.
Robin: No, well…there was a lot of crazy stuff after that. Things started going wrong an’ Gran wasn’t well. If she’d been around, things might’ve been different…ah, Lizzie – I never wanted to be a pop star!
Lizzie: Robin –
Robin: Lizzie, I need to redecorate in here, this paper’s drivin’ me mad! Will you help me choose somethin’?
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