Lulu: Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments, TV Picks. 欢迎回到【荐剧版块】. You notice that usually I say Lulu's TV Picks, “璐璐荐剧”, but today I just said TV picks, that's because today's TV picks comes from Anlan. Hi, Anlan.

 

Anlan: Hello.

 

Lulu: Thank you for joining this other segment.

 

Anlan: That's absolutely brilliant to come along. I love watching TV, so hopefully I might have a few TV picks that our fans might be interested in.

 

Lulu: You certainly have a very different taste when it comes to TV picks.

 

Anlan: Well yeah. I'm not big fan of crime shows or cop shows.

 

Lulu: Horror.

 

Anlan: Horror. Basically if you are like me and you don't really fancy being depressed watching SVU and other similar types of TV show, I think this segment might be good for you.

 

Lulu: So enough with the suspense, what is the TV pick that you are going to share with us today？

 

Anlan: I'm going to share a lovely TV pick for you called All Creatures Great and Small.

 

Lulu: All Creatures Great and Small. 中文译名叫《万物生灵》, 还有把它直译为《万物既伟大又渺小》. We actually wrote an article about this, it has been very popular in China as well.

 

Anlan: Yes, it's really popular in the UK, and also very popular in America as well apparently.

 

Lulu: But for those who have never heard of it, could you give us the background？

 

Anlan: Right. So All Creatures Great and Small is a remake of an earlier TV show in the 1980s which actually I watched when I was growing up, based on the books of James Herriot.

 

Lulu: James Herriot.

 

Anlan: Yeah. James Herriot was a British vet or veterinary doctor, who became a writer.

 

Lulu: Vet is an animal doctor.

 

Anlan: Yes.

 

Lulu: 兽医.  And that book or this TV series is basically about his experience of being a vet.

 

Anlan: Yeah, basically in a very unique part of the UK called Yorkshire.

 

Lulu: 约克郡. You hear that a lot in obviously a lot of the TV shows relating to UK. But what is Yorkshire actually like？I personally have never been to Yorkshire.

 

Anlan: Well, Yorkshire is a county in the North of England. It's really famous for the dales.

 

Lulu: Dales?

 

Anlan: Dales are… it’s a type of park, it's a type of countryside, and it's really beautiful.  

 

Lulu: Dales中文就是谷地. They're like valleys.

 

Anlan: Yeah, they're very small valleys, you know. It's not like the Grand Canyon or anything like that. They're just very small…

 

Lulu: Quaint little valleys.

 

Anlan: Yeah, with lots of villages, lots of farms as well. Hence, why he is a vet.

 

Lulu: When British people think of Yorkshire, do they automatically think of beautiful countryside？

 

Anlan: Partly. Yes. Another word for Yorkshire, another name for Yorkshire is God's own country, and that's something that Yorkshire people do actually like to say because they…

 

Lulu: They're very proud of it.

 

Anlan: They are very proud. It's a very beautiful part of the UK. Yorkshire people, they're also quite unique as well. There's a bit of a stereotype about them that they are very direct, very honest,  actually sometimes bordering on rude or being a bit stubborn.

 

Lulu: Probably like no nonsense type of people.

 

Anlan: Exactly. But in reality a lot of Yorkshire people they're very down to earth, they’re also very friendly as well. There are also some stereotypes that they're quite frugal and tight with money. But I would say probably they're a little bit more careful because Yorkshire was always traditionally a slightly poorer area of the UK.

 

Lulu: It's just what you have described just paints a picture very much like traditional small town, small villages that type of idea. And the TV show is basically about a vet in Yorkshire.

 

Anlan: That's it. In the program, it's about him coming to Yorkshire and living and working with another vet there whose name is Siegfried Farnon.

 

Lulu: Farnon.

 

Anlan: Farnon hired Herriot as a vet. And Farnon is actually quite eccentric.