Episode Three

The third and final part of the BBC Mapp and Lucia.

Plot
While most of Tilling thrills to Lucia's artistic accomplishments, Mapp is convinced that her summer visitor is a crashing fraud and sets out to prove it with her usual vigour. Lucia repels an early attack on her musical talent with ease and judicious use of the easier movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and Mapp is forced to open a new front with an all-out assault on her linguistic ability.

Suspecting that her tenant's grasp of Italian is limited to the few phrases she may have picked up from occasional trips to the opera, Mapp thrills to the news that Tilling is to be visited by a genuine Italian contessa. This surely will call Lucia's bluff. And when Lucia goes down with a bout of influenza on the very day of the Contessa's arrival, all of Mapp's suspicions seem justified...

Credits

 * Poppy Miller as Evie Bartlett
 * Paul Ritter as Rev. Kenneth 'Padre' Bartlett
 * Gemma Whelan as Irene Coles
 * Mark Gatiss as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint
 * Miranda Richardson as Elizabeth Mapp
 * Felicity Montagu as Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow
 * Anna Chancellor as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas
 * Nicholas Woodeson as Algernon Wyse
 * Pippa Haywood as Susan Wyse MBE
 * Soo Drouet as Grosvenor
 * Steve Pemberton as Georgie Pillson
 * Jenny Platt as Foljambe
 * Gavin Brocker as Cadman
 * Maxine Roach as Janet
 * Frances Barber as Amelia Contessa di Faraglione
 * Richard Cant as Station Master
 * Andy Godfrey as Twistevant
 * Susan Porrett as Withers