Filmed in Rye: Mapp and Lucia
The Mapp and Lucia novels inspired not one but two TV dramas, both filmed in and around Rye. The first series aired on Channel 4 in 1984 featured Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan taking the lead roles of Mapp and the willowy Lucia and Nigel Hawthorne playing the theatrical Georgie. A recent three-part adaptation written…