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 starred...
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Stella Gibbons (section Cold Comfort Farm)
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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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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Guy Clutton-Brock (section Cold Comfort Farm)
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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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 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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In 1968, she took the role of narrator of the BBC TV production of Cold Comfort Farm, a three-part serial, and played a TV interviewer in the 1960s film...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Titfield Thunderbolt Beershorn – Cold Comfort Farm Beershorn Halt – Cold Comfort Farm (film) Godmere – Cold Comfort Farm Aidensfield – Heartbeat Ailsenby...
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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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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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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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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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Hutchison 1992 Peter's Friends Peter Morton 1994 IQ James Moreland 1995 Cold Comfort Farm Mybug The Steal Wimborne 1996 The Wind in the Willows The Judge 1997...
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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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