Question Time presenter David Dimbleby was in Haworth this week filming a major new BBC series.

A Picture of Britain is a six-part series, examining six different regions in the UK.

Its aim is to explore how the area's landscape has influenced arts and literature.

Haworth was chosen as a location for one of the programmes, entitled the Romantic North, which will look at how the Haworth moors influenced and inspired the Bront sisters.

Mr Dimbleby toured the area from Sunday until Wednesday, and visited the moors, including Penistone Cragg and Top Withens -- reputedly the inspiration for the setting of Wuthering Heights.

The series will also look at the modern landscape, with the presenter also visiting the wind turbines on Ovenden Moor, near Denholme.

"The programme will explore how the landscape influenced the Bronts' writing and then changed the image of the north," said Mr Dimbleby.

"People in the north used to be seen as savages and dangerous until the literature of the Bronts emerged."

The BBC has been filming the series throughout the winter, and despite the freezing temperatures of the moors Mr Dimbleby said he had enjoyed the experience.

"I prefer it to summer," he said. "There're two things about it. One, the light is better so we get better pictures. Second is the lack of people. For example, there was hardly anyone about today -- just a few nutters."

An exhibition at the Tate Modern Art Gallery, in London, will tie in with the series, with one room in the gallery devoted to each region.

The other areas to be featured include Wales, Northern Ireland, Sussex and Kent, and Scotland

The series will be broadcast in June at peak time on BBC1.

The programme is a follow up to British Isles: A Natural History, which was presented by Alan Titchmarsh and broadcast on BBC1 last year.

The event continues a long tradition of television crews visiting the area, stretching back to the 1970 film The Railway Children, which was filmed on the Keighley & Worth Valley line.

David Parsons, countryside officer with Bradford Council, said: "Such events happen quite often and bring much needed money into the economy.

"The more Haworth is seen on television, the more visitors we get."