The crossover programme will see Yorkshire vets Peter Wright and Shona Searson, the former of whom was James Herriot\u2019s real-life apprentice, entering the world of Darrowby and going behind the scenes of filming.<\/p>\n
Samuel West, who plays Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures, spoke with RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press about meeting Wright and Searson for the programme, and what he learned from the experience.<\/p>\n West said: \u201cI learnt a lot about Donald from Peter because he studied with him and was there. And I also learned a lot about him from Andy, Andy Barrett, our on set vet who also studied with him. But yeah, I had a very good time.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating because he\u2019s lived his own life from basicall<\/span>y the point where Donald stopped, Donald Sinclair, the real life Seigfried Farnon I mean, to now where he\u2019s still working, and seen the huge changes in, particularly dairy herds, and going from visiting a farm to do a pregnancy test on one cow to visiting the farm for an entire day to do 300.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd it\u2019s almost not the same job. In fact, there aren\u2019t reall<\/span>y practices that do the split farm animal\/small<\/span> animal thing anymore, unless they\u2019re in West Scotland, or some archipelago, because they\u2019re such different things. So yeah, it was reall<\/span>y interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n The programme will air directly before this year\u2019s All Creatures Christmas special, which will see James hoping to get home from the RAF air base at which he is stationed to see his pregnant wife Helen for Christmas.<\/p> ![\"Cast](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/ACMTYV-3-163bcc2.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"All")
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