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 ...

In the television series All Creatures Great and Small, viewers were introduced to the character of James Herriot, played by Nicholas Ralph. In the series, James begins working alongside the quirky ...

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BLACKSBURG -- Becoming a veterinarian hasn't been this exciting since Alf Wight came home to the Yorkshire Dales after World War II. Under the pseudonym James Herriot, Wight chronicled the medical ...