The BBC is priding itself on sticking closely to the word of author E.F. Benson in its adaptation of his Mapp and Lucia books, set in Tilling, a town based on Rye in East Sussex, where the series is currently filming. Both the town’s medieval Anglican church of St Mary’s and Franciscan church of St Anthony of Padua, in Watchbell Street, are featured. Members of both churches have been signing on as extras, at £90 a day, and Fr Paul Clarke OFM is full of praise at how the BBC has been careful not to interrupt the parish life. However, over at St Mary’s there have been murmurings concerning its two church signs, which have been lettered over in an attempt to reflect E.F. Benson’s nomenclature. The lesser of the two has been correctly re-styled as “St Mary