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TV & Satellite Week
|September 20,2025
The end of World War Two brings changes at Skeldale
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.
This story is from the September 20,2025 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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