Lost Horizon

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James Hilton - Lost Horizon: 3. The Inheritance

James Hilton - Lost Horizon

3. The Inheritance

BBC Radio 4 Extra - James Hilton - Lost Horizon, 3. The Inheritance

Conway's acquaintances try to discover if there is any truth in his Shangri-La adventure.

Hugh Conway's old acquaintances try to discover if there's any truth behind his Shangri-La adventure. Stars Derek Jacobi.

That four people should be kidnapped in India and flown over a thousand miles to the lamasery of Shangri-La was incredible enough.

But then Hugh Conway discovered during an audience with the High Lama that he was conversing with a man who was 250 years old.

Stars Derek Jacobi.

Conclusion of 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
Lo-Tsen ...... Pik-Sen Lim  
Rutherford ...... John Livesey
American ...... Crawford Logan
Doctor ...... John Bull 

Pianist: Antony Miall

Producer: Graham Gauld

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 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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