Susan Calman has said visiting the home of Anne Lister during filming for her new series of Grand Day Out was an “emotional” moment.
Lister was a 19th century landowner often regarded as the “first modern lesbian” and the topic of the popular BBC series Gentleman Jack starring Suranne Jones.
The series was created by Sally Wainwright and based on Lister’s diaries, which were part-written in a cryptic code. Scottish comedian Calman, 47, said: “In Yorkshire we went to Shibden Hall, where Anne Lister lived, and that was quite an emotional moment for me. “That was a really important place to go to hear about her story. “So that was one of those moments where you go, ‘I’m getting to see places and talk to people and do wonderful things’. ”The series sees Calman, who has been married to her wife Lee Cormack since 2016, travelling to historic and culturally important locations in a camper van named Helen Mirren.
Explaining why she named her vehicle after the Hollywood star, Calman said: “Well, I mean originally they said to me, ‘Do you want to name the van?’“And I named her Helen Mirren because I love Helen Mirren and I thought, ‘If I wanted a travelling companion, it would be Helen Mirren’.
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