My Yorkshire Herriotage ; As All Creatures Great and Small Returns to Tv Screens Carol Drinkwater, Star of the Original Series, Rediscovers the Stark Beauty of the Dales [Eire Region]

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Never go back, they say... So I knew by returning to the Yorkshire Dales to revisit the haunts of my days as Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great And Small, I was tempting fate.

But I couldn't resist after I heard the news that there would be a James Herriot 'prequel' series on TV this Christmas.

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My Yorkshire Herriotage ; As All Creatures Great and Small Returns to Tv Screens Carol Drinkwater, Star of the Original Series, Rediscovers the Stark Beauty of the Dales [Eire Region]

Young Herriot will tell the story of how he became a vet - and the idea revived all sorts of happy memories for me.

All Creatures Great And Small is one of the most popular TV series ever made. It followed a young Scottish vet who, in the late Thirties, takes up a post in a country practice in the Yorkshire Moors. They were based upon the bestselling books of James Herriot (whose real name was Alf Wight).

I was 26 when I wo...

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