#brian sinclair

Eamonn Andrews after showing a clip from All Creatures Great and Small 1978: Well Peter, you were pioneering some weatherproof headgear there.

Peter Davison: *Laughs mildly.* Yeah.

Robert Hardy from offstage: And I wonder if you remember who designed your costume for you on that occasion.

Peter Davison: *Laughter.*

Eamonn: Just before curtain up for The Dear Liar, Siegfried himself, television actor of the year, Robert Hardy.

*Applause. Peter laughs.*

Eamonn: And your other co-stars from All Creatures Great and Small, Carol Drinkwater...

*Peter giggles*

Eamonn: And on his way to underneath the arches of the Prince of Wales Theater, James himself, Christopher Timothy...

Peter and Christopher Timothy: How are you? I'm very well how are you? *Laughter.*

Eamonn: And with them. The real life Tristan from the real life veterinary practice of which the series was based...

*Peter laughing*

Eamonn: Brian Sinclair.

*Applause*

Eamonn: Robert, what about those clothes that he was wearing there?

Robert Hardy: It was a very, very, very cold morning. We were absolutely freezing and he comes up with a scarf over his head. And then they said 'we going to shoot now' and he starts to take it off and I said 'No. You look marvelous in that.'

*Peter laughing*

Robert: He said 'I can't.' Because you know, he's very conscious of his good looks.

*Peter laughing harder*

Robert: And his youth and all the rest. And I said, 'Keep it on, it looks much more real, much more cold.' And thus I put his steps firmly on the road to success, which I think was kind of me don't you?"

*Laughter*

Eamonn: I think so too, but you've come through to the end of it as well. Christopher, I know that you admire Peter as an actor.

Christopher: Really? Who told you that?

*Peter and Audience laughing*

Eamonn: Well I think you do.

Christopher: Well he happens to be a very great face(?) and he also happens to be very good at his job. And what more could a man ask for? He's...He's very splendid.

*Peter laughs.*

Christopher to Carol: Is that true or not true?

Carol Drinkwater: No?

*Everyone laughs*

Christopher: You see?

Eamonn: Well now, let me ask the only non-actor here. Brian you are the real life vet that Peter played. Well how did you like the way he interpreted you?

Brian Sinclair: Well I felt very flattered that somebody like Peter was cast as me. And uh I remember telling him it'd have been nice to have been as tall and as handsome as he was.

*Brian and Peter laughing.*

Christopher Timothy from off-camera: I'll go along with that.

Eamonn: Thank you Brian Sinclair, Christopher Timothy, Carol Drinkwater, and Robert Hardy.

*Indistinct voices*