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  • The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
  • Written by: James Herriot
  • Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
  • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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All Creatures Great and Small

Written by: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
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Publisher's Summary

This audio edition is read by Nicholas Ralph, known for his role as James Herriot in the All Creatures Great and Small TV series.

** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **

Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James finds he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world can’t help him . . .
©2020 James Herriot (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
Professionals & Academics Biological Sciences
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What the critics say

Bulls with sunstroke, pigs on the run and a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit . . . I grew up reading James Herriot's book and I'm delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then. (Kate Humble)
Herriot's enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight (Amanda Owen, bestselling author of The Yorkshire Shepherdess)

Nicholas Ralph’s narration is grand...A talented mimic, the star of the newer production can hold the stage alone, taking both voices in an argument. Ralph expresses adoration of domesticated animals and the wild Scots who own them. Ralph channels the Herriot magic, wrapping these tough eccentrics in a light that cheers and ennobles us all. (AudioFile)

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Thrilled with this recording.

I am compelled to write that Mr. Ralph is a superb narrator! The story I have always loved, but he brings such dimension to each character and situation. And it all sounds so effortless, which I know full well it is not.
Well done!

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