This is the story of Alex Jamess transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker & father of five. ?I was hanging around the pigsty in the way I?d previously hung around at The Groucho Club. I felt wonderfully connected, grounded in the real world, standing in pig muck? Following fifteen years in Blur, Alex James did two wild, unexpected things. He fell in love & he bought a farm. Moving into a rambling, chaotic farmstead in the beautiful Cotswold countryside, he decides the best way to learn about farming is the same way he learned most about music: by jumping in & doing it. As his family settles in, he discovers the unexpected joys that country life abounds in: finding the first egg from your very own chicken, coming across a bramble bush laden with blackberries, roasting home-grown pears on an open fire, before stumbling on a new venture ? making cheese. Wonderfully warm, witty & perfectly observed, this is the story of what to do after you?ve been the bass player in one of the best bands in the world, & a life-affirming tale of just how much fun growing up & settling down can be. ?A joy to read. Prose flows & weaves & curls itself into pleasing rhythms? He can write like a god.? ...

Celebrates our special fondness for wildlife
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The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offers an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried & Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent & an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James find he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. & when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training & experience in the world can?t help him? Since they were first published, James Herriots memoirs have sold millions of copies & entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny & touching, All Creatures Great & Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love & companionship from one of Britains best-loved authors. ...

The Christmas specials from both 1983 & 1985 in which the vets come home from the war to a land & a lifestyle about to change forever. James (Christopher Timothy)'s return to domestic life doesn't run too smoothly, as unable to open up to Helen (Carol ...

The first 6 episodes of the first series of the popular drama based on the books by vet James Herriot. James (Christopher Timothy) arrives in rural Darrowby to begin veterinary practice. His employer is the demanding Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy), & i ...

First six episodes from the second series of the popular British television drama, about the vets in practice in the rural town of Darrowby during the 1930s. In this volume, the vets hope to secure the annual Fortnum's hamper for their practice once more. ...

The final eight episodes from the second series of the 1970s/80s drama series, based on the books by Yorkshire vet James Herriot. Any time of the year is busy in Darrowby, but with Christmas on its way, the residents of the dales demand more attention tha ...

The last of the original three series' of the BBC drama set in the Yorkshire Dales veterinary surgery. Seigfried Farnon (Robert Hardy) is an ageing vet in a busy Dales practice who barely suffers fools at all. James Herriott (Christopher Timothy) is his y ...

Series four of the popular drama following a veterinary practice in the Yorkshire Dales sees the boys returned from war. All the characters viewers had grown to love are here but with Helen played by Lynda Bellamy rather than Carol Drinkwater. Calum Bucha ...

All twelve episodes from series five of the BBC drama based around James Herriot's country veterinary practice in Yorkshire. In this series, Calum travels to Irel&, Tristan announces that he has resigned from the Ministry of Agriculture to join the prac ...