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Titmuss Regained is a novel by John Mortimer published in 1990. It is a sequel to his 1986 novel Paradise Postponed . Plot synopsis. Leslie Titmuss returns to Rapstone village and will do whatever it takes to fit in with the highest levels of society. Married to his second wife, Jenny, he seeks to buy his first wife's country house.
Production. The TV series was directed by Alvin Rakoff and was mainly shot in Henley-on-Thames and Marlow, Buckinghamshire in the second half of 1985. A three-part sequel, entitled Titmuss Regained, aired in 1991.
Paradise Postponed: With Annette Crosbie, Paul Shelley, Peter Egan, David Threlfall. A clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Leslie is outraged. The ’well meaning offer of paradise’ refers to the Rev Simcox’s reforming zeal and belief that the causes he supports can only lead to a better quality of life for everyone. Before he dies, he concludes that it has all been an impossible dream – Paradise remains postponed.
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Leslie Titmuss has never quite fit in among the denizens of Rapstone Village. Socially awkward and hailing from a humble background, he nonetheless aspires to the highest levels of society. He is ready to do whatever it takes to get there. For much of his life, Titmuss was taken under the wing of the kindly Reverend Simcox. This caused little concern for the clergyman's sons - that is, until ...
Paradise Postponed. 1 9 8 6 (UK) 11 x 50 minute episodes. It was hard to tell who the heroes were in John Mortimer’s Paradise Postponed, Thames Television ‘s blockbuster about dotty socialist vicar Simeon Simcox (Michael Hordern) – “The Red Rector” of the village of Rapstone Fanner – and how he died and left all his money (including ...
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Nominated for four BAFTAs, Paradise Postponed and its sequel, Titmuss Regained, also star Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), Annette Crosbie (Edward and the King), and Zoe Wanamaker (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone).
