Alan Starkey

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.