Cold Comfort Farm is back on iplayer

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Oh hurrah. This is one of my favourites. If you liked Mapp and Lucia, Ladies of Letters and appreciate an eye as acute as that of Alan Bennett watch this light satire set in the 1930s. Kate Beckinsale as neat Flora Poste tidies up the rural, doom laden Starkadder family. Rufus Sewell broods in his best manly way throughout. Excellent production, great cast. A treat.

caught it last night - only wish it was longer!

Thanks for the heads up!

Watched it this morning. Love it!

Something narsty in the woodshed

Oh brilliant, this is one of my faves and not seen it in a few years! A treat for tomorrow I think

Ooh yes

I've just watched it. CCF is one of my favourite books. The film was very faithful to it. There was also a BBC serialisation many years ago (70s?) with Alastair Sim as Amos which I loved.

I've just checked and it was 1968!!!

@CaptainMyCaptain

I've just watched it. CCF is one of my favourite books. The film was very faithful to it. There was also a BBC serialisation many years ago (70s?) with Alastair Sim as Amos which I loved.

The BBC serialisation’s on YouTube. I knew Seth looked vaguely familiar & finally recognised a very young Peter Egan!

Rufus Sewell

Ooh! I should read the book first shouldn’t I? It’s on my list

I was flicking through the channels and caught the last fifteen minutes (just from Seth’s departure to Hollywood) and forced the family to watch the denouement while giving them a potted summary of the plot up to then. It’s perfect.

Lovely! I shall watch tomorrow with a glass of wine and bag of crisps and just wallow in the splendidness of it

Excellent, I absolutely love this adaptation, such a great cast I'll certainly be watching thanks op.

The BBC serialisation’s on YouTube Thank you I'll watch that.

Thanks Captain, I still recall bits of the 1968 version and I fell in love with it. Will definitely re-watch on YouTube after all these years.

So nice to see Kate Beckinsale as a seriously good actress, before she became a glamorous Hollywood Barbie.

Just watched it inspired by this thread. What a brilliant film!

Oh don’t be mean about Kate! I really like the fact that this English rose became a random action movie star and spent her thirties and forties kicking ass in a leather catsuit as the lead in a vampire/werewolf action movie series. Not the sidekick, not the love interest, the actual series lead. You’ve got to respect the work ethic.

Wonderful, just watched. Thanks for the heads-up!

She also left the lovely Michael Sheen for Len Wiseman, so I can't forgive her!

I think if Michael’s forgiven her then you should be able to. I love MS, but if he’d wanted to be with her forever then maybe he should have proposed.