Polo: The lavish and racy classic from Sunday Times bestseller Jilly Cooper

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Claire Rushbrook ( Sherwood) plays Lady Monica Baddingham, Luke Pasqualino ( Skins) the charming Basil “Bas” Baddingham, Tony’s younger brother and the owner of Cotchester’s Bar Sinister. It is the first of a series of romance novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles, which are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. She suffers from the societal equivalent of body dysmorphia: she imagines she's far posher than she is.

They own vast "country piles", in varying states of repair ("crumbling" if they can't lay their hands on any capital; not-crumbling if they can), and tend to be a bit problematic by today's standards. Brossura illustrata ed ingiallita dal tempo mostrante segni di usura ai margini e sporadiche macchioline marroni ai piatti.

The series is executive produced by Dominic Treadwell-Collins ( A Very English Scandal, Holding, EastEnders) and Alexander Lamb ( The Bay, We Hunt Together, Ackley Bridge), Felicity Blunt, Laura Wade, Rivals author Jilly Cooper and Director of Scripted Content for Disney+ EMEA Lee Mason.

It is the second in the series and features many of the much loved, and affectionately loathed, characters that readers first met in Riders. Doctor Who’s David Tennant, Poldark actor Aidan Turner, Inbetweeners star Emily Atak and EastEnders icon Danny Dyer are among the top British talent confirmed for the eight-part series. David Tennant will play Rupert’s “single-mindedly ambitious and egotistical Rutshire neighbour Lord Tony Baddingham, controller of Corinium Television”. With the help of his rich debutante wife, Tory Maxwell, he is able to set himself up his own yard and begins building a reputation on the show-jumping circuit.Turner plays fiery TV presenter Declan O’Hara and ex-Dr Who David Tennant is Baddingham, who lures O’Hara to Corinium but fails to make good on his promises to him . An established member of the England squad, Max has been playing since he was 12, and made history when he was hand-picked to be Land Rover's first ever polo player ambassador. If they're kind to animals, unpretentious and make no attempt to disguise their accents, they might past muster. The fourth-generation polo player in his family, he was born in Buenos Aires to an Argentinian father and a German mother, and remembers watching his father training with the Sultan of Brunei. For her, class was an unfixed quantity; something mutable and shifting, that could be outstripped with a little ingenuity.

After bursting onto the Argentinian polo scene as a teenager, he became the youngest ever player to achieve the maximum rating, and has also won the world’s most prestigious tournament the Argentine Open 12 times. He's about to star in Channel 5 drama Heat, and host Scared Of The Dark on Channel 4, and has hosted quiz shows Cheat and The Wall. Anyway, I was more of a Ricky France-Lynch girl, myself; he of the hard Slavic cheekbones and irreparably damaged elbow.Aidan Turner plays TV presenter Declan O’Hara, who’s wooed toCoriniumTV from the BBC byBaddinghamhimself, but feels he’s been swindled and vows to get his revenge. A bit of a legend in the polo world, name-dropping Adolfo into conversation will show that you know a thing or two about the game.

EmilyAtack( The Inbetweeners) plays Sarah Stratton,thenew wife to Deputy Prime Minister, Paul Stratton, played by Rufus Jones ( W1A).

A star cast has been revealed today for the hotly anticipated Disney+ TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals with news that filming has started in the UK. Feminists of all stripes get very short shrift in her novels (which is interesting, given that she was the main breadwinner throughout most of her marriage), but hairy-legged ones, by which I suppose she means second wave, are the worst. It was turned into a television film, Riders (1993), directed by Gabrielle Beaumont for Anglia Television and broadcast on the ITV Network. LukePasqualino( Our Girl, Skins, The Musketeers)plays the charmingBasil ‘Bas’Baddingham, Tony’s younger brother and the proprietor ofCotchester’shot spot, Bar Sinister. Freddie’s got the money, but finds himself, along with his social-climbing wife Valerie (played by LisaMcGrillis(Maternal, Mum), an outsider toRutshire’scliques.