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Mapp and Lucia: meet the characters

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Devotees of EF Benson's 1930s series of comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, are in for a treat this Christmas: a three-part adaptation penned by Steve Pemberton (above, playing Lucia's camp, platonic friend Georgie), and starring Miranda Richardson and Anna...

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Filming location

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When the BBC made the decision to dramatise Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson’s series of comic novels that parody the snobbery and pretensions of the upper-middle-classes in 1930s small-town Britain, the only possible place they could film the series was in...

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Shortage of costumes for a BBC adaptation

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Set in a small town in the 1930s, EF Benson's much-loved books about feuding socialites Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas are as delectably English as a slice of Victoria sandwich. But when the BBC came to shoot its adaptation – which...

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