Paradise Postponed Paradise Postponed Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on a novel by writer John Mortimer. He had adapted "Brideshead Revisited" as a film and wrote "Rumpole of the Bailey." The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small village. The series explores the mystery of why Reverend Simeon Simcox, a "wealthy Socialist rector", bequeathed the millions of the Simcox brewery estate to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred, a jazz-drumming country doctor and Henry, once Britain's brightest and angriest writer who now works
Paul Bailey (British writer) Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the North Dakota State University (1977–79). He was awarded the E. M. Forster Award in 1974 and in 1978 he won the George Orwell Prize for his essay "The Limitations of Despair", first published in "The Listener" magazine. Bailey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Paul Bailey's novels include "At The Jerusalem" (1967), which is set in an old people's home, and which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; "Peter Smart's Confessions" (1977) and "Gabriel's Lament" (1986), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize