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    Titmuss Regained

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    Thames Television presented this three-part sequel to Paradise Postponed which revolved around the issue of urbanisation versus green spaces, and the narrow-minded, self-interest which motivated each camp.

    David Threlfall, as MP Leslie Titmuss, now elevated to the cabinet, played a man who had aged mentally and physically, without having abandoned the chip on his shoulder. Threlfall captured superbly a man who had ossified, but whose vulnerability was only more intense.

    When Titmuss wasn’t kicking down doors and haranguing his ambitious junior minister, Ken Cracken – played with his usual maverick air by Peter Capaldi – he was wining and dining his mistress in transport cafes, providing some of the funniest scenes with dialogue that was pure black comedy.

    Kristin Scott Thomas, as his girlfriend Jenny Sidonia, paced her performance to match his so that an unlikely relationship was wholly credible. Both were widowed and unattached but otherwise appeared incompatible.

    Titmuss acquired a stately home in the beautiful, unspoiled Rapstone Valley and intended for Jenny to help him fill it. Meanwhile, his new neighbours were fighting a development plan for the valley.

    Once married, Leslie and Jenny honeymooned in Rome but their marital bliss was disturbed by Titmuss’s suspicion that Jenny had someone else in her life. When they returned home, she seemed to be spending a little too much time with Dr Fred Simcox (Paul Shelley), leader of the ‘Save Our Valley’ campaign.

    The excellent supporting cast filled out the landscape, each obsessively engaged in his own pursuits, and each of them eccentrics in some way or other. The casting of Bill Oddie as environmentalist Hector Bolitho Jones was almost like that of television presenter Brian Walden, who had the task of playing himself.

    Rosemary Leach, as lusty yokel Dot Curdle, was given some very funny scenes, while Sue Bramble (Jane Booker) was waspishly witty.

    Leslie Titmuss
    David Threlfall
    Jenny Sidonia
    Kristin Scott Thomas
    Dot Curdle
    Rosemary Leach
    Ken Cracken
    Peter Capaldi
    Dr Fred Simcox
    Paul Shelley
    Sue Bramble
    Jane Booker
    Wilf Curdle
    Harry Jones
    Evie Curdle
    Joanna Brookes
    Hector Bolitho Jones
    Bill Oddie
    Joyce Timberlake
    Holly De Jong
    Len Bigwell
    Paul Bradley
    Virginia Beazley
    Tricia George
    Vernon Beazley
    Colin Starkey
    Rev. Kevin Bulstrode
    Albert Welling
    Col. Wilcox
    John Horsley
    Sir Willoughby Blane
    James Grout
    Jessica Hopkins
    Emma Stephenson
    Greg Boland
    Will Tacey
    Lorna Boland
    Katherine Stark
    Elsie Titmuss
    Sylvia Kay
    Nick Titmuss
    Russell Porter
    Sir Christopher Kempenflatt
    Andrew Burt
    Barty Pine
    John Grillo
    Daphne Jones
    Liz Crowther
    Joan Jones
    Rosie Mortimer
    Mrs Tippett
    Mona Bruce
    Jackson Cantelow
    Harold Innocent
    Titmuss’s Driver
    George Higgins
    Judge Phyllis Durst
    Jo Kendall

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