Masterpiece Theatre This classic BBC production was originally aired in the U.K. as three 45-minute episodes. PBS elected to show Cold Comfort Farm in its entirety during one memorable evening. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned London sophisticate o... (more)f insubstantial means and no real ambition save becoming the next Jane Austen, cheerfully determines to find a relative who'll take her in. When she chooses an offer from the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Howling, Sussex, she expects it to "appalling but interesting". And the clutch of Gothic country cousins she finds there doesn't disappoint.