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Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm: 3. Elfine's Rights

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

3. Elfine's Rights

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm, 3. Elfine's Rights

Flora aims to transform Elfine into the belle of the ball. Comedy with Patricia Gallimore.

Flora’s making headway over the tidying of the farm. But she hasn't counted on Aunt Ada Doom. Stars Patricia Gallimore.

In which Flora's plots begin to thicken and she seems to be making headway over the tidying-up of the farm. But she’s reckoned without Aunt Ada Doom...

Starring Patricia Gallimore and Elizabeth Proud.

Stella Gibbons' tale of early-20th-century rural England.

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud.

Flora Poste ..... Patricia Gallimore
Stella Gibbons ..... Elizabeth Proud
John Westbrook ..... John Westbrook
Reuben Starkadder ..... Trevor Martin
Judith Starkadder Margaret Robertson
Adam Lambsbreath ..... Cyril Shaps 
Seth Starkadder ..... Sion Probert 
Amos Starkadder ..... John Hollis 
Micah Starkadder ..... Alexander John
Richard Hawk-Monitor ..... Stephen Garlick
The Abbé Fausse-Maigre ..... Malcolm Hayes
Meriam .....  Amanda Murray
Mrs Beetle ..... Miriam Margolyes 
Aunt Ada Doom .....  Fabia Drake
Mr Mybug ..... Michael Spice
Claud Hart-Harris ..... Roger Hammond
Harkaway Starkadder .....  David Timson
Urk Starkadder ..... Christopher Scott 
 Monsieur Solide ..... Alan Dudley 
Rennett Starkadder ..... Christine Absalom 
Mrs Hawk-Monitor ..... Margot Boyd 
Elfine Starkadder ..... Jane Knowles 
Young Man .....  David McAlister  

Music: Terence Allbright

Director: Ian Cotterell 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1981.

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