Stella Gibbons' deliciously witty parody has been delighting readers since 1932 and retains its original sunny charm in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Many would be overcome by the simmering passions of the Starkadder family, but not Flora. There she is confronted by an exceptionally odd cast of characters: grief-stricken Judith, fervently religious Amos, the lusty smouldering Seth, wild and mysterious Elfine and, of course, the invisible tyrant Great Aunt Ada Doom who saw something nasty in the woodshed. Casting around for suitable relatives with whom she can make her home, Flora alights on the mysterious Starkadders and, ignoring the horrified shrieks of her friends, heads down to darkest Sussex.
It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Strong of will and slender of ankle, 20-year-old orphan Flora Poste is blessed with every virtue save that of being able to earn her own living. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness Amos, preaching fire and damnation their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben child of nature Elfine and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. My personal choices would be: A Shocking Accident - Graham Greene Towards the End of the Morning - Michael Frayn The Lumber Room - Saki Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons and Anything by P G Wodehouse. Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932.
Patricia Gallimore and Miriam Margolyes star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the classic comic novel.
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