• Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of...
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  • Cold Comfort Farm is a 1995 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger and produced by the BBC and Thames Television, an adaptation of Stella Gibbons'...
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    numerous British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000). She also appeared...
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  • journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active...
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  • Cold Comfort may refer to: Cold Comfort (film), 1989 film directed by Vic Sarin "Cold Comfort" (Are You Being Served?), a 1974 episode of Are You Being...
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  • social worker who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm in what was then Rhodesia. Clutton-Brock was born at Lake View, Green...
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    Royal National Theatre (Lyttelton). His film work includes 1995's Cold Comfort Farm, directed by John Schlesinger, the lead role of John Murdoch in the...
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  • Marathon Man (1976). His later films include Madame Sousatzka (1988) and Cold Comfort Farm (1995). He also served as an associate director of the Royal National...
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    Barbara Hutton Story (1987), Orpheus Descending (1990), Stalin (1992), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Her other...
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    attitude". In 1995, Penry-Jones appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm. Penry-Jones made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire theatre...
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  • Day in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Charles Fairford in Cold Comfort Farm directed by John Schlesinger, the Prince of Wales in Richard III,...
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    Other television work included the 1968 BBC three-part adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm (he also appeared in the 1995 film adaptation), the 1978 series Pennies...
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    (1991), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Talking Heads (1998), Madame Bovary (2000), David Copperfield (2000), Wit (2001) and Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), Cold Mountain...
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    title. The novels are thought to have inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons. She was born Mary Gladys Meredith in 1881...
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  • television adaptation of The Winter's Tale. She played Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm (1968) and Lizzie Eustace in The Pallisers (1974). In the 1980 BBC...
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  • television series over the years since 1966 to the present day, including Cold Comfort Farm (1968), the sitcoms Executive Stress, Keeping Up Appearances, Next...
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    J Fallows - performed by Pearl Mackie - the Painkiller Podcast". Cold Comfort Farm. Penguin.co.uk. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2022. "VOXAFRICA...
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    writer and executive producer Jack and Sarah William Tim Sullivan Cold Comfort Farm Amos Starkadder John Schlesinger Television film 1996 Rasputin: Dark...
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    internationally known roles include Reuben Starkadder in the television film Cold Comfort Farm (1995) and Adonija in the German-Italian-French co-production Solomon...
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  • Theatre, Leatherhead, and originating the role of Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 1990, she moved to New York...
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  • Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Magician by Raymond E. Feist On the Road by Jack...
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  • Bullshot Hotel Manageress 1989 The BFG Queen Elizabeth II Voice 1995 Cold Comfort Farm Mrs. Hawk-Monitor TV film 2002 Midsomer Murders Lady Lavinia Chetwood...
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    Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy. This genre inspired Stella Gibbons's parody Cold Comfort Farm (1932). Kaye-Smith's response to the latter was amusement: she placed...
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  • Cold Comfort Farm and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both Cold Comfort Farm by...
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  • sex-and-cinema-obsessed Seth Starkadder in a BBC serialisation of Cold Comfort Farm (1968). In 1969, he had come to notoriety as the acid-throwing gangster...
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  • It was one of several works that inspired the later parody novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. The plot follows the lives of the Darke family...
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  • playing another socially self-assured comic figure in the recent film Cold Comfort Farm." James also lauded the screenplay for doing "a deft job of letting...
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  • novels by Brandon Mull Seth Starkadder, a character in the 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Seth, a character in the television series Di-Gata...
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    Shirley Valentine Marjorie Majors 1995 Innocent Lies Lady Helena Graves Cold Comfort Farm Mrs. Mary Smiling 1996 James and the Giant Peach Aunt Spiker 1997...
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  • with The Country Life, a comedic novel inspired by Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award...
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