BBC One has unveiled a trailer for Steve Pemberton’s new adaptation of EF Benson’s Mapp and Lucia.

Set in the summer of 1930, the three-part comic drama mini-series begins at 9.05pm on Monday 29 December on BBC One, concluding at 9pm on Wednesday 31 December.

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Watch the trailer…

The cast includes Miranda Richardson (Parade’s End) and Anna Chancellor (Spooks) as notorious small-town social rivals Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas, alongside Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) as Raj Army veteran Major Benjy, alongside writer Steve Pemberton (Inside No 9) as Lucia’s devoted acolyte and dapper chief courtier, Georgie Pillson.

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