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I’m chuffed. The actor who plays Herriot in the new series, Nicholas Ralph, is doing the reading in his native Scottish accent, he does all the accents of the farmers and townsfolk in a smashing manner, we just helped a cow 🐄 with a very difficult birth indeed and I’ve had a brand new suit in high quality tweed gifted to me. I’ll have my pint 🍺 and it doesn’t get much better.

audiobook narrated by the actor who plays veterinarian James Herriot in the new television series

Herriot mostly gives us upbeat stories and only rarely the inevitable tragedy. This collection appears to begin with the latter and I was dreading it. But there was a brilliant turnaround and the first story leaves us with smiles all around 🥹