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...What it lacks is the scalpel wielded by a writer like James Herriot, whose fictionalised accounts of life as a postwar Yorkshire vet were tightly plotted and sharply observed....
...Doc Darbyshire was the first to introduce me to the tales of James Herriot, the veterinary surgeon from the Yorkshire Dales who would become one of the UK’s most beloved memoirists with the release of his...
...I also loved James Herriot and wanted to be a vet. Private school or state school? University or straight into work? Los Angeles County High School for the Arts was where I came into my own....
...The Yorkshire Dales, known for its rolling hills and dry stone walls, was popularised in the novels of James Herriot and dramatised in the long-running television show All Creatures Great and Small....
...In James Herriot country the allegation is that the local association “co-opted” people to pack the executive committee and deselect Anne McIntosh in January last year....
...He is wearing a black jacket and blue sweater but before long he has changed into a green waterproof jacket of the kind worn by James Herriot for the purpose of delivering calves....
...The signs there read “Welcome to James Herriot Country”. OK, he’s not in the same literary league as Austen but it could have been a lot worse....
...All Creatures Great and Small [by James Herriot]. I was nine or 10. What does it mean to be a writer? I’m most attached to the freedom – being responsible for my own time....
...In a media age, if it takes James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small to popularise the Dales and ITV’s Heartbeat to draw visitors to the North York Moors, so be it....
...“Gone are the days of James Herriot, when all you did was give a couple of injections,” says Gerard McLauchlan, a vet at Glasgow university....
...In Thirsk, North Yorkshire, Hambleton council is disposing of a James Herriot museum that attracts tens of thousands of fans of the television vet to the Dales....
...Hard to say but expect to see more of this type of eclectic approach in fusing not only unusual materials – think James de Givenchy’s rubber, wood and diamond pieces for Sotheby’s Diamonds – but also mixing...
...The first high-profile product was a Philips razor with an electronic display, featured in Die Another Day,the James Bond film....
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