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2. James Herriot - Wikipedia

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   James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author.. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years.

3. John Lewis-Stempel - Wikipedia

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   Lewis-Stempel's book Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field won the Wainwright Prize and was also short-listed for BBC Countryfile 's Country Book of the Year 2014. In 2016 The Running Hare was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times best seller, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Wainwright Prize, The Richard Jefferies ...

4. All Creatures Great and Small (franchise) - Wikipedia

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   Young James Herriot is a three-part BBC television series based on the life of veterinary student James Herriot. It was based on notes in the Herriot archive and the archives of the Glasgow Veterinary College, including the diaries and case notes the author kept during his student years, and was produced with the cooperation of his family.

5. All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series) - Wikipedia

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   The programme initially ran for three series, with each episode adapting one or two of the Herriot stories—usually a story thread centred on James, and a second centred on Siegfried or Tristan. The continuity of the show followed the general arc of the books: James's arrival at Darrowby in 1937, his growing experience as a vet, his humorous ...

6. Brian Sinclair (veterinary surgeon) - Wikipedia

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   The 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small was the first adaptation of Wight's semi-autobiographical novels of James Herriot. It was directed by Claude Whatham, [26]: 615 and starred Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins as James Herriot and Siegfried Farnon, with Brian Stirner taking the part of Tristan.

7. 1916 in literature - Wikipedia

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   October 7 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (born 1849) October 21 – Olindo Guerrini, Italian poet (born 1845) October 25 – John Todhunter, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1839) November 14 – Saki (H. H. Munro), English short-story writer (killed in action, born 1870) November 15 – Molly Elliot Seawell, American novelist (born 1860)

8. It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet - Wikipedia

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   It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (in the United States also known as All Things Bright and Beautiful), is a 1976 sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.Although having the same title as James Herriot's second novel, the film is actually based on his third and fourth novels, Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet in Harness, which in the United States were released as a compilation volume ...

9. Peter Barrett (illustrator) - Wikipedia

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   Peter Barrett illustrated the book and also contributed to the text. In the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, his stature as an animal artist and children's book illustrator has grown hand in hand. Peter Barrett illustrated reprints and collections of famous animal centric stories and books by Gerald Durrell, Desmond Morris and James Herriot.