Cold Comfort Farm

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Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm: Episode 1: 1. Flora's Rights

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Episode 1: 1. Flora's Rights

1. Flora's Rights

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Flora Poste decides to live off her relatives, the Starkadders of Howling.

Flora Poste decides to live off her relatives, the Starkadders of Howling, but problems lie ahead. Stars Patricia Gallimore.

In which Flora Poste - she of the strong will and the slender ankle - begins her adventures. 

Flora believes that unless life is tidy, one cannot even begin to enjoy it - and life with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm promises to be anything but. 

Starring Patricia Gallimore and Elizabeth Proud.

First published in 1932, Stella Gibbons' tale of early-20th-century rural England 

Dramatised in four parts by Elizabeth Proud.

Flora Poste ..... Patricia Gallimore
Stella Gibbons ..... Elizabeth Proud
The Abbe Fausse-Maigre ..... Malcolm Hayes
John Westbrook ..... John Westbrook
Mary Smiling ..... Kate Binchy  
Charles Fairford ..... David McAlistair  
Aunt Gwen ..... Pauline Letts 
Angus McKnag ..... Alexander John
Spiritualist Lady ..... Gladys Spencer 
Judith Starkadder ..... Margaret Robertson 
Reuben Starkadder ..... Trevor Martin 
Adam Lambsbreath ..... Cyril Shaps 
Seth Starkadder ..... Sion Prober 
Amos Starkadder ..... John Hollis 
Mark Dolour ..... Stephen Garlick 
Elfine Starkadder ..... Jane Knowles

Music: Terence Allbright

Director: Ian Cotterell 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1981

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Flora Poste embarks on a career as a parasite and moves in with the Starkadders of Howling

The adventures of Flora Poste, who embarks on a career as a parasite and moves in with the Starkadders of Howling

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