‎Tipping the Velvet - Apple TV

Nan journeys from a simple provincial life by the sea to the margins of society in 1890s London, where she finds she is a wanted, and wanton, woman… When Nan, a young innocent oyster-girl from Whitstable, goes to a music hall for the first time, she embarks on the journey of her life.

LGBTQ · 2002 · 58 min

Starring Sally Hawkins , Anna Chancellor , Rachael Stirling

Director Geoffrey Sax

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Whitstable, a small seaside town in Kent, southern England, in the 1890s. Nan Astley works in her parents’ oyster parlour alongside her older sister, Alice. All the family love the music hall and it is here that Nan first encounters Kitty Butler, the woman who is to change her life. Kitty is a ‘masher’ (a pretty girl who dresses as a boy on stage) and Nan is immediately attracted to her.

51 min · 9 Oct 2002
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Walter tells Nan that he and Kitty are to be married. Nan cannot believe that she has been betrayed in this way. When the tearful, guilty Kitty tries to reassure her that their relationship need not change, she angrily rejects her. She returns to the theatre to collect the money owed her and her masher costumes.

51 min · 16 Oct 2002
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Diana catches Nan and Blake making love in bed and orders them to leave the house, immediately. Nan has to sell her costumes to give them a little money. In the morning Blake has disappeared along with their funds and Nan is now totally destitute.

51 min · 23 Oct 2002

Sally Hawkins

Zena Blake
Anna Chancellor

Diana Lethaby
Rachael Stirling

Actor
Keeley Hawes

Actor
Jodhi May

Florence Banner
Geoffrey Sax

Director
Georgina Lowe

Producer
Andrew Davies

Writer