The village of Tilling-on-the-Sea in the late 1920s is the setting for E.F. Benson's delightfully comic tales of provincial English society. Miss Mapp holds sway over Tilling's social life - with schemes of low cunning and the help of a well placed bay window - until the day Lucia moves to town.

This highly sought after PBS series boasts an all star cast including Prunella Scales (Faulty Towers), Geraldine McEwan (Barchester Chronicles) and Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George).