The PBS series “Masterpiece Theatre” turns 50 in 2021, and in January the program began airing a new British series that is well worth your time.  In fact, it just may be the salve we need in these troubled times.

Dr. James Herriot (a pen name for Alf Wight) wrote his first memoir of adventures as a young veterinarian in his original book, “If Only They Could Talk,” in 1970.  This series of books continued throughout the 1970s and 1980s.