Episode 1 S01 E01

Miranda Richardson (as Elizabeth Mapp) Anna Chancellor (as Emmeline 'Lucia' Lucas) Poppy Miller (as Evie Bartlett) Felicity Montagu (as Godiva 'Diva' Plaistow) Steve Pemberton (as Georgie Pillson) Paul Ritter (as Rev. Kenneth 'Padre' Bartlett) Gemma Whelan (as Irene Coles) Mark Gatiss (as Major Benjamin 'Benjy' Flint) Nicholas Woodeson (as Algernon Wyse) Frances Barber (as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione) Pippa Haywood (as Susan Wyse MBE) Susan Porrett (as Withers) Jenny Platt (as Foljambe)

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