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Cold Comfort Farm

Duration: 1 hour, 38 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her eccentric relatives in the country. She then sets about reordering the life of the family, who have been cut off from the modern world and kept firmly in their places by her tyrannical yet terrified aunt. Show less

Contributors

Flora Poste:
Kate Beckinsale
Mrs Mary Smiling:
Joanna Lumley
Amos Starkadder:
Ian McKellen
Judith Starkadder:
Eileen Atkins

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