Gibbons, Stella

Last Edited: 16-Aug-2017 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
Broadcast R7
07-Dec-2004 to
Cold Comfort Farm
  1. A Curse
  2. The Cousins
  3. Something Nasty in
    the Woodshed
  4. Elfine Transformed
  5. Flora Triumphs
Read by Sophie Thompson
Abridged by Sally Marmion
Produced by Sarah Davis
14:04, 6596, m
14:08, 6632, m
14:00, 6570, m
13:48, 6475, m
13:53, 6515, m
BBC R4
09-Dec-1974 to
13-Jan-1975
Cold Comfort Farm
read by Kenneth Williams
Abridged in six parts and produced by Pamela Howe
28:38, 26864, S
29:09, 27334, S
29:01, 27309, S
29:04, 27254, S
28:31, 26771, S
29:02, 27214, S
BBC R4
17-May-1981 to
07-Jun-1981

Cold Comfort Farm
  1. Flora's Rights
  2. Amos's Call
  3. Elfine's Rights
  4. Flora's Rights Again
Elizabeth Proud, John Westbrook, Kate Binchy, Patricia Gallimore,
David McAlister, Pauline Letts, Alexander John, Gladys Spencer,
Margaret Robertson, Trevor Martin, Cyril Shaps, Sion Probert,
John Hollis, Malcolm Hayes, Stephen Garlick, Jane Knowles, Miriam
Margolyes, Diana Bishop, Kathryn Hurlbutt, Michael Spice, Fabia Drake,
Roger Hammond, David Timson,  Christopher Scott, Alan Dudley,
Margot Boyd, Amanda Murray, Christine Absalom, David McAlister,
John Rye
adapted by Elizabeth Proud
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
53:36, 50252, S
53:34, 50216, S
53:47, 50419, S
54:08, 50744, S
BBC R4
09-Jan-1983
16-Jan-1983
Conference at Cold Comfort
Farm
  1. There Have Always
    Been Starkadders
    At Cold Comfort Farm
  2. Ruben's Oath Or Seven
    Good Men And True

Patricia Gallimore, Elizabeth Proud, David McAlister, Michael Spice,
Sion Probert, Kate Binchy, Sheila Steafel, Trevor Martin, Stephen
Thorne, Nigel Graham, Cyril Shaps, Rosalind Adams, Peter Tuddenham,
Hugh Dickson, Timothy Bateson, Jill Lidstone, Frances Jeater,
Jane Knowles, David Gooderson, Simon Hewitt, Christine Absalom,
Susannah Simons, Tom Crowe
adapted by Elizabeth Proud
Directed By: Ian Cotterell
55:27, 52047, S
49:13, 46205, S
R4:
02-Oct-2011
09-Oct-2011
Nightingale Wood
Victoria Hamilton, Dinah Stabb, Paul Moriarty, Francine Chamberlain,
Simon Bubb, Adam Billington, Adjoa Andoh, Alex Rivers,
Joan Walker, Ian Masters, Victoria Inez Hardy, Judith Coke,
James Lailey, Gerard McDermott
Dramatised for radio by Christopher William Hill
Directed by Marion Nancarrow
56:57, 53286, S
56:27, 52822, S
R4:
16-May-2004
23-May-2004
Westwood
Rosemary Leach, Juliet Aubrey, Michael Fenton Stevens, Saffron
Burrows, Caroline Harker, Mia Soteriou, Phyllida Nash, Jonathan Nibbs,
Angela Barlow, Chris Donnelly, Jacqueline Tong, Martin T Sherman,
Barbara Kellerman
Adapted by Lynne Truss
Director Kate McAII
56:56, 53382, S
56:41, 53235, S
BBC R4X
19-Dec-2011 to
23-Dec-2011
Winter Tales
  1. Christmas at Cold
    Comfort Farm
  2. The Friend of Man
  3. The Murder Mark
  4. Cake
  5. Golden Vanity
Read by Fenella Woolgar
Abridged by Miranda Davies
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
28:49, 27019, S
27:24, 25684, S
28:12, 26433, S
27:13, 25515, S
28:02, 26288, S

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