Year 8 students from Ryburn Valley High School interviewed the veteran journalist as part of a radio programme they produced for the BBC's School Report News Day.

Teams of budding journalists across the UK produced radio, TV and internet news.

Ryburn's 15-minute report was a mix of live and pre-recorded interviews and entertainment, sports, technology, travel and weather news.

The students had a series of lessons about different aspects of being a journalist, from deciding what is newsworthy to editing.

They researched and wrote their own stories, used their contacts to find interviewees and decided the running order for the show.

Laura Armstrong, 12, interviewed Harry about Look North's 40th anniversary celebrations.

She said: "I was really scared but excited as well. He has made some documentaries and I asked him what made him want to do that."

Harry was on hand to give some tips to presenters Jorja Nuttall and Cormac Noel, both 13.

Jorja said: "It was fun but really hard work. We wrote the scripts and made changes to them and got everything in order.

"Harry told me to give it more, and not to speak too fast or too slow."

"It was quite confusing. Everything links together and we had lots of sheets of paper and it had to mesh well," said Cormac.

Other interviewees included writer Trevor Simpson, who has written about the 1960s Halifax pop scene, and Gary Worthington, who used to play for Halifax Town Football Club and is now a talent scout for Chelsea.

Pupils filmed the activities throughout the day and took photographs which will be used on the school website.

Honor Byford, deputy head, said: "They get such a buzz out of it. It is great having a professional journalist, Phil Squire from BBC Radio Leeds, here to advise them.

"And being able to spend a whole day on one project like this is great."

English teacher Kath Bradley said: "The whole project has been fantastic. They feel like proper journalists and have been really professional."