Delighted to say that we started work on ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL this month. I’m playing Siegfried Farnon.

For #Playground in 2020 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/all-creatures-great-small-casting-news/

Also contains these lovely people: @nicholasralph_ as James, @RachelShenton as Helen, @cal_woodhouse as Tristan and #AnnaMadeley as Mrs Hall.

Produced by @rbmagpies99

Studio day on our lovely #AllCreatures set. Good thing too #ACGAS

I remembered not to have breakfast this morning, but even so, five setups on a scene with Full English has left me never wanting to look at another black pudding #ACGAS #TheLivingIsQueasy

Just passed Dent station on the Settle and Carlisle line, on the way to #ACGAS filming. The highest in England, in one of the most remote places in Britain.

You can stay here, and it’s lovely, but if you do, by far the best way in and out is by train http://www.railwaystationcottages.co.uk/dent-station/ 

Had to say “Hold on a minute” in a scene today. Turned it into “Hang on a minute” in one take. Script Supervisor queried it - quite right too, as it turns out. “Hang on” only common post-70s (we’re set in 1937).

Anachronism geeks: Google Ngram is your friend #ACGAS

A standby costume person has just said “Look at me, stood watchin’ like cheese at fourpence.”

A Lancashire (or Yorkshire?) dialect phrase meaning “left waiting”: cheese was rarely as expensive as 4d and anything priced that dear was likely to sit there unbought. I love it #ACGAS

From our #ACGAS base this morning. Dales waterfalls swollen by recent rain

Dressing for filming days in autumn is like going back to school. You get up when it’s still dark and put on a warm uniform. Nobody sees or cares what you wear, so there’s no aesthetics involved.

Then you get to work and take all your clothes off again. It’s very odd #ACGAS

Morning all #ACGAS

Best bit of a full #ACGAS filming day: waiting for a highly trained cat to lie down. Burly gaffers, sparks, camera crew, sound department all tiptoeing about while we stroked it to sleep. Got the shot. Onward!

First dipper of the #ACGAS shoot today, perched in a tumid stream.

Here’s why it’s my favourite bird https://twitter.com/bbcspringwatch/status/922565039726379009?s=21

Today’s location. #YorkshireDales, thou art truly something else.

May the road rise up to meet you #ACGAS

Morning. I think our set might be on fire #ACGAS

A 1935 17 HP Armstrong-Siddeley on set today still had its original manual.

The A-S Sphinx mascot changed over the years - from 1932 it was ‘couchant’, modelled on the Thames Embankment ones #ACGAS

“All over the world, and in many languages, you can listen to the truth from London.” Those were the days.

Curiously comforting BBC propaganda from this 1930s edition of FRIENDS OF MANKIND, an RSPCA publication. Set dressing from #ACGAS

Morning all. Earliest start so far for #ACGAS, stealing daylight from the end of the day. It’s pissing down in the Dales. How is everyone?

Remember that waterfall a few tweets back? Here it is this morning.

I had to stand further back #ACGAS

Talking to Paul, our #ACGAS driver. As a child, he remembers loving a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Berlin “with a white wall and a couple of trapezes”.

He only saw Brook’s Dream, probably the most famous production of the 20th C, on its 1972 world tour, didn’t he?

Presumably in 1928 it was felt that nobody needed a longer one.

#ACGAS set dressing, not featured (thankfully)

Quite a find on the #ACGAS set: a love letter from Manoel in Esmoriz, Portugal to his “darling girl”, 2/12/1919. 100 years old this Friday.

He writes “There is none here yet for whom I would feel as I felt that day (July 19th) when I left you in that car in Leicester station.”

“Now that I am away, those boys have at last had a chance and carried you… I dare say those motor-bykes & what nots could not be resisted...

Still my violin is there near you; & perhaps sometimes you will see me if you hold it? …Have you got a piano in the house?”

Poor Manoel

From set yesterday. Cupid stamping on a heart.

Those Romans sure knew what love feels like #ACGAS

We made it to a grand! Prosecco all round.

What a long, strange thread it’s been #ACGAS

Our base runner Paresh brought breakfast #ACGAS

First look at #AllCreatures artwork #ACGAS.

Coming soon on @channel5_tv.
Really hope you like it.

And here’s a sneak peek of Diana Rigg as Mrs Pumphrey and Derek (who really ought to get top billing) as Tricki-Woo #ACGAS @channel5_tv

DAMN. It’s not a sneak peak, it’s a sneak Peke.

Missed it #ACGAS