LIZ JONES: Why I fell in love with James Herriot country

I’m in a beautiful village called Arncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales watching a scene being shot for season seven of the channel 5 reboot of much-loved TV drama All Creatures Great And Small.

As a teenager, I was addicted to watching Christopher Timothy as veterinarian James Herriot, and the late, great Robert Hardy as his recalcitrant boss, Siegfried Farnon. It aired from 1978 to 1990, and I was mesmerised by the shots of little 1930s cars trundling across moors purple with heather, past dry-stone walls and tumbledown farms, the hills and valleys peppered with sheep and cows, abandoned tin mines and

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