E. F. Benson - Mapp and Lucia (1931) - Worship - Epi 09 Part 2 - Geraldine McEwan

Epi 09: Mapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson, and is also the name of a television series based on those novels.

The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and "one-upmanship" in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery. The books provide deep insights into how key members of a small, close-knit community interact with each other. Although this may not sound very promising material for modern-day readers, the books are very funny and engage one's keen interest to see how the two main protagonists—the elegant and sophisticated Lucia and the malicious and frumpy Miss Mapp—score off each other and extricate themselves from social disasters.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.


This production: Mapp and Lucia - Worship (1986)
Geraldine McEwan -Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas, Prunella Scales - Miss Elizabeth Mapp, Nigel Hawthorne - Georgie Pillson, Denis Lill - Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint, Mary MacLeod - Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow

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[mandychaplin]

I loved this programme so much and great to see more of it on here..x:)

[BaroqueJazzPlays]

@mandychaplin - it is wonderful... just got up episode 7, nearly there....

[MrTonyInchpractice]

roes on toast

[mandychaplin]

@BaroqueJazzPlays Thats fantastic great stuff..x

[MrTonyInchpractice]

oh, the business in diva's tea rooms is deliciosa. love mapp's voice- so contrived and deliberate. i used to think only miriam margolyes had a voice to rival prunella's (for expression, breadth and characterisation) but the sheer range of geraldine's voice- in such brief periods, too- eeks every last drop of expression to be had from her lines. nowadays the only person with that kinda vocal command is catherine tate (i hate to say).

the wise's are a scream.

multo agreeable.