Yorkshire Great and Small With Dan and Helen: Helen Skelton meets Alf Wight's son Jim on Channel 5 series in the Yorkshire Dales
In Helen Skelton and Dan Walker’s latest Channel 5 series Yorkshire Great and Small With Dan and Helen, the pair are on a mission to find hidden gems as well as learn new things about the region.
The episode airs on October 10, 2024, at 8pm. The two TV presenters and good friends will split up and explore the Yorkshire Dales, taking on a route coined ‘The Herriot Way’.
The trail was created by none other than the original All Creatures Great and Small creator himself, Alf Wight, in the 1950s to help celebrate the landscape he was fond of.
Helen will meet Alf's son, Jim, and they will discuss the enduring popularity of his books and subsequent TV series All Creatures Great and Small.
CREDIT: Channel 5
The episode airs on October 10, 2024, at 8pm. The two TV presenters and good friends will split up and explore the Yorkshire Dales, taking on a route coined ‘The Herriot Way’.
The trail was created by none other than the original All Creatures Great and Small creator himself, Alf Wight, in the 1950s to help celebrate the landscape he was fond of.
Helen will meet Alf's son, Jim, and they will discuss the enduring popularity of his books and subsequent TV series All Creatures Great and Small.
CREDIT: Channel 5
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00:00Talking of following in footsteps, I mean, we are literally following in his footsteps
00:05right here on the Herriot Way, aren't we?
00:07Yes, we did it in 1957, when I was the princely age of 14, and he wrote it up in his book
00:13James Herriot's Yorkshire, visiting all the places I describe.
00:17And I said to him, forget it, Dad, it's not worth publishing.
00:21That book outsold all the books he'd written.
00:25So don't ask me for advice, Helen, will you?
00:27Don't ask me for advice.
00:32The original Herriot Way route has changed since the first father and son ramble in 1957.
00:38But the stunning Swaledale landscape remains the same.
00:44This was his all-time favourite dale, especially the top end, because he liked wild spots rather
00:52than civilised spots.
00:55And the fame and fortune and the legacy, you really can't underestimate, because it's
00:59a very different thing, fame, now, isn't it?
01:01People can be famous on social media for a couple of years or a couple of months.
01:05But your dad, I mean, his work has gone on and on and been reincarnated, hasn't it?
01:10Oh, yes.
01:11One of the greatest legacies he had was people wrote to him, having read his books, and it
01:16said they made them feel better.
01:18People on hard times, people depressed, still send letters to my sister and I.
01:24Almost 30 years after his death to say that reading his books are therapeutic.