Alan Titchmarsh breaks down in tears over poignant moment

Alan Titchmarsh broke down in tears on Sunday's episode of Love Your Garden over a poignant moment on the show.

During the latest episode, Alan, 75, spoke to Call the Midwife stars Jenny Agutter and Renee Bailey. However, chat soon got onto Jenny's, 72, career and in particular her role in The Railway Children as Bobbie.

Alan said of the iconic movie and television series: "I think Jenny knows this anyway but whenever this comes on at home, I have two daughters right, I have to leave the room, I really have to leave the room.

"They want me to play this clip, I'm going to have to hide behind a cushion now, it's the most famous scene from The Railway Children, which Jenny will have seen countless times, I'm sorry.

"It's her [Bobbie's] dad's been taken away, totally unjustly, she doesn't know whether she's going to ever see him again and it's up in Yorkshire, the steam train comes in, and she's told to go to the platform.

"She goes to the platform, wondering why she's been told to go and meet this train, this is what happens next. Excuse me" to which he hid behind a pillow as the emotional scene played, where Bobbie sees her daddy through the steam on the railway platform.

After the poignant scene, Alan was left emotional as he wiped away tears, saying: "Every time!"

Explaining why he was emotional over the moment, Alan said: "It's in Yorkshire as well, there's everything in there from growing up. I've told Jenny this before, my dad was a part-time fireman", adding he had a "sort of direct link" to the film.

Elsewhere, Jenny said of the scene: "I love the fact it becomes silent and then you have Johnny Douglas' underscore and just this pings and this clearing, it's beautifully done, it's just on the edge of being sentimental.

"It tells the story Edith Nesbit [writer] wanted, she desperately, her father died when she was a child and she wanted father to come home."