The warm-hearted festive special of All Creatures Great and Small airs tonight – and its star Samuel West will settle down to watch it on Christmas Eve with his actor parents Timothy West and Prunella Scales.
In the show, Skeldale House will be celebrating Christmas while facing the impending losses of the Second World War with a young evacuee in their midst.
And in the West household, there is also an impending, but much more gradual, sense of loss as Prunella, 90, who has been diagnosed with dementia, slowly slips away.
