Carol Drinkwater: ‘I don’t file acting and writing into separate compartments'

Virgil may have coined the phrase ‘Love Conquers All’ but it took Carol Drinkwater to reinvent it as a creative metaphor, writes John Rainsford

Carol Drinkwater  made her name in the hit BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, before choosing ‘the road less travelled’ with life-altering consequences for her career.

Given the benefit of hindsight, the award-winning Anglo-Irish actress, author, and filmmaker, can point to the role of nature, (as much as nurture), in shaping that choice.