'All Creatures Great and Small' and the Yorkshire Dales
— was a pandemic-era hit thanks partly to the pastoral escapism it offered shut-in viewers. Here, Jacqueline Smith, the production designer, discusses the landscape and what it brings to the series. (As told to Jennifer Vineyard.) Parts of Britain are extremely old, and some buildings and cottages look the same as they did hundreds of years ago; sometimes it’s a bit like living in a museum. It’s retained that charm, especially in the Yorkshire Dales. Yorkshiremen always call this “God’s own country.” I grew up here, and people from Yorkshire often think that they would like to ha...