Mapp & Lucia (2014)

Lucia decides to take Tilling's cultural welfare in hand and begins a regular series of musical evenings - 'un po di musica' as she calls it.

Lucia decides to take Tilling's cultural welfare in hand and begins a regular series of musical evenings - 'un po di musica' as she calls it. Lucia's apparent culture still has the Tillingites flocking to her banner but the odd yawn and tiny moan suggests some may be starting to tire of her high-handedness. Mapp watches with interest, keen to encourage a revolt. She's convinced that Lucia is a fraud since learning that she traced her sketch for the art exhibition and is determined to prove it.

Mapp begins her campaign by suggesting Diva and Evie skip Lucia's next 'po di mu' but when she discovers that Mr Wyse's sister, the Contessa de Faraglione, is about to visit it presents an even more delicious revenge. Such a fluent speaker of la bella lingua will, of course, show up completely Lucia and Georgie's shaky, ill learnt conversational Italian. Lucia's in a fix and it will take all her ingenuity and patience to keep Mapp at bay. The summer is nearly at an end and it's no longer who'll win the battle but rather who will win the war!

Meanwhile, Miss Mapp and Diva are engaged in their own skirmish, this time over the season's latest fashions. Georgie is inconsolable on learning that Foljambe has made plans and the rest of Tilling is trying ever so hard to quell their excitement as news arrives that the Prince of Wales is to pass through the station. As Lucia proclaims, it is not the done thing to notice royalty, but can the Tillingites really bear not to witness their town's big moment?