BBC Archive | 1977: JAMES HERRIOT, WRITER and VET on Call | The Lively Arts | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Melvyn Bragg talks to James Herriot, the author behind All Creatures Great and Small and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (among many others), about his life as a vet and his successful writing career.

In the interview, we learn how Herriot writes while watching television, how he got his pseudonym from a Birmingham City goalkeeper, how his second career started late in life and why he keeps working as a vet and living in rural Yorkshire despite his huge success.

Clip taken from The Lively Arts: James Herriot - Portrait of a Bestseller, originally broadcast on BBC Two, Sunday 28 August, 1977.




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