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Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.

Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.

I was delighted to be able to interview Carol for my other site A Taste Of Garlic and found her to be modest but passionate about her Olive Farm.

You can read that interview here at Interview with Carol Drinkwater.

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Wikipedia has this to say about Carol.... "Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948 in London) is an Anglo-Irish actress and authoress, made famous for her award-winning portrayal of Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books, All Creatures Great and Small. She was a member of the National Theatre of Great Britain under the leadership of Lord Olivier, has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successfulBouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet. Carol won a Critics Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father in which she starred opposite Max Von Sydow.

She has written a number of children's books, including The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series and film for Disney and won the Chicago Film Festival Gold Award for Children's Films. In the adult market, her books include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence."

The only thing that I can add is that they neglected to mention that Carol also starred (with Rula Lanska) as Irma Goodbody in what is generally considered to be the worst film ever made..... Queen Kong.

But then, I can understand that!

All the best

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