Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
February 21 - 27, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Nicholas Ralph
OF ‘ALL CREATURES GREAT AND
SMALL ON MASTERPIECE’ ON PBS
The “Masterpiece” remake of “All Creatures Great
and Small” is your first television credit. As it wraps
up its run, with your being its central star, how did
you find the experience of filming it?
I came from a theater background where you don’t get that
stuff (catering and other amenities). Start to finish, this was
just incredible, and spending the four months ... we were
just going like everyone was on fire, cast and crew. It was
an incredible opportunity, and one I am so lucky to have
had the opportunity to do.
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What sort of research did you do for the project?
I read all the books, and I even went down to Glasgow
at the university archive, and I found James Herriot’s – or
the man himself, James Alfred Wight’s (who used “James
Herriot” as his pen name) – his scores and his absences
from the days when he was in Glasgow Veterinary
College. And something that struck me was that in the
biography his son wrote, (it was revealed) he was a little
bit ill during that period.
Something you noticed was that of the people that
passed, he was one of the highest absentees, but he was
always within the top three (students in) all the classes. It just showed me straight away not only
the intelligence of the man, but more the hard work and the passion he had for that to happen.
Already, that gives you so much to work with as an actor. And we met his son and daughter, Jim
and Rosie. They were really helpful with little anecdotes and stories and things like that.
“All Creatures Great and Small” turned out to be one of the final projects made by the
late Dame Diana Rigg. How was it to work with her?
Working with Diana was an absolute pleasure. She had so much vitality, and she was keeping
everybody on their toes.
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