Vet and author Alf Wight and actor Nicholas Ralph, playing James Herriot in Season 5 of All Creatures Great and Small What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf”) Wight, author and the ...

As you watch All Creatures Great and Small on MASTERPIECE on PBS, you have to wonder just how much the characters are based on real life people. For starters, the author who created them—James Herriot ...

For the human creatures of “All Creatures Great and Small,” life is moving on. The third season of the latest television drama based on James Herriot’s (the pen name of James Alfred Wight) ...

Based on James Alfred Wight’s series of semi-autobiographical books about a Yorkshire veterinary clinic, PBS series All Creatures Great and Small follows the quaint tales (or tails) of a trio of vets ...

Among the many partners in a successful farm is the veterinarian When our farm was a dairy operation, my parents retained a wonderful local veterinary service that was a father and son operation. The ...