All Creatures Great and Small

**Jimmy** · 20th December 11, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by McClef

Then you will have seen my late father in it - he played a farmer in one episode and the "knacker man" in another when the cow runs away from him as he is driving it to market and returns to its stall.

I don't think I have managed to see the episode you refer to. however.

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School with a Scots accent that he never had in the original series!

I've been watching the Young James Herriot, the third and final episode is shown tonight (Tuesday), I've found it quite a good and interesting programme mostly populated with good Scots actors with true Scots accents.
In the first episode one of the young students was wearing a kilt at the vet college, he is the actor that potrays Charlie in the Scots soap 'River City'

**Charlie** · 20th December 11, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by McClef

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School with a Scots accent that he never had in the original series!

James Heriot - true name Alf Whyte - was Scottish and settled in Yorkshire. The BBC chose not to have him speak with a Scottish accent in All Creatures Great and Small. The new mini series of the student days on BBC1 (December 2011) has just finished and is very good. It even had some Scottish Dancing!

**McClef** · 21st December 11, 03:54 AM

I knew he was Scots as that was clear in the books. What I was querying was the consistency of the BBC.

**spglenn** · 21st December 11, 07:23 AM

Actually considering that both the Sinclair brothers whom the Farnon brothers were based studied at Edinburgh I would have suspected all three would have known how to wear a kilt.