A FARMING family from North Yorkshire is to star in a prime time television series.

Sue and Angus Gaudie and their three sons were filmed throughout the summer for BBC1's The Great British Summer.

A four-part series of hour-long programmes, narrated by Alan Titchmarsh, it will be broadcast in November.

The Gaudies are well-known for the organic Yorkshire Clotted Cream and organic low fat breakfast yoghurts which they make on their 200-acre Stamfrey Farm at West Rounton, near Northallerton.

The whole milk for the cream and skimmed milk for the yoghurts all comes from their 110 Friesian cows. They are now considering building a purpose-built dairy unit to increase production, and which would create jobs.

The TV company behind the series was put in touch with the Gaudies by the National Farmers' Union in York.

But the couple got a shock when they opened the door and found the cameras rolling for the entire two-hour initial meeting.

Later they discovered that what was going to be a small part in the series had turned into a more major role which involved some 15 days of filming through May until the end of August.

"You get a bit complacent in the end, thinking it's only Bruno and the others," said Mrs Gaudie.

"We started with the house like a palace, not a speck of dust anywhere, but then you relax and I'm sure when it goes out I'll wish I had dusted the sideboard more often!"

Every day family life was filmed, including them hand-making the cream and yoghurt, attending a farmers' market and the last day of summer term at school.

They were asked to enter some cows in North Yorkshire County Show but when they were trying to get the halter on one, it ran off.

"I don't know what they'll show but Angus was shouting at me to catch it and I started laughing - the more he shouted the more I laughed. I couldn't help it."

The family's annual weekend camp when the Gaudies pitch tent in one of their fields - along with 38 friends and relatives - was also filmed.

The boys - William, 12, Sam, ten, and Joe, eight - were filmed extensively.

Mrs Gaudie said: "We don't know why they picked us and we have no idea what they will show but it was an interesting experience."

The series also features a photographer in London, a surfing teacher in Cornwall, a hotelier in Blackpool and a butterfly conservationist with the National Trust.