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James Hilton - Lost Horizon: 2. Shangri-La

James Hilton - Lost Horizon

2. Shangri-La

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Conway and the others are stranded in the wilderness, but a man named Chang appears.

Hugh Conway and the others are stranded in the Tibetan wilderness, but a man named Chang comes to their aid. Stars Derek Jacobi.

The aeroplane carrying Conway, Mallinson, Barnard and Miss Brinklow crash-landed on a high pass in the Karakoram mountains. 

Out of the Tibetan wilderness suddenly appeared the Chinese man Chang.

Stars Derek Jacobi.

James Hilton's novel about Shangri-La, the mystical lamasery hidden in the mountains of Tibet.

Dramatisatised by Barry Campbell.

Hugh Conway ...... Derek Jacobi
Mallinson ...... Andrew Branch
Barnard ...... Alan Tilvern
Miss Brinklow ...... Carol Marsh
Chang ...... Garard Green
Hilton ...... Alaric Cotter
High Lama ...... Alan Wheatley


Pianist: Antony Miall

Producer: Graham Gauld

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1981.

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After a plane crash, Hugh Conway claims to have stumbled upon the utopian Shangri-La

After a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, English diplomat Hugh Conway claims to have stumbled upon the utopian world of Shangri-La. 1933 novel by James Hilton.

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