Animal house

The end of World War Two brings changes at Skeldale

- WORDS: CAREN CLARK, MICHAEL DARLING, HANNAH DAVIES, RICHARD MCCLURE, VICTORIA WILSON

From his recurring role as slippery politician Peter Judd in spy drama Slow Horses to his scene-stealing turn as irascible head vet Siegfried Farnon in vet saga All Creatures Great and Small, Samuel West is currently enjoying a purple patch.

'I'm pretty busy. I'm also playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican in London at Christmas, West, 59, tells TV&Satellite Week.

"They are all very different.