Lost Horizon by James Hilton

A BBC Radio adaptation in three parts by Barry Campbell of the classic novel by James Hilton.

In May 1931, an airplane evacuating a number of people from a province in India overrun by revolution is mysteriously hijacked, but crash-lands somewhere in the mountains of Tibet, killing the pilot. The passengers, which include a British diplomat and his young associate, an American businessman and a British female missionary, are rescued by a party from the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La and taken there. Once there, they are assured that they will be returned to civilization as soon as it can possibly be arranged, but Hugh Conway, the diplomat, begins to notice that not is their departure being subtly delayed but also there are more questions than answers at Shangri-La ... questions whose answers, if true, might prove too unbelievable ...

Hugh Conway ... Derek Jacobi
Mallinson ... Andrew Branch
Barnard ... Alan Tilvern
Miss Brinklow ... Carol Marsh
Chang ... Garard Greene
The High Lama ... Alan Wheatley
Lo-Tsen ... Pik-Sen Lim
Rutherford ... John Livesey
Wyland ... Sion Probert
Hilton ... Alaric Coulter
American ... Crawford Logan
Doctor ... John Bull

Music performed by Antony Miall

Directed by Graham Gauld

Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 22 September - 04 October 1981

Episode 1
The Kidnapping

During May 1931, the revolutionary situation in Baskul worsened and Air Force machines arrived from Peshawar to evacuate the residents.

A few miscellaneous aircraft were also employed - among them one lent by the Maharajah of Chandapore.

Four passengers took off in this plane: Miss Roberta Brinklow, of the Eastern Mission; Henry D Barnard, a US citizen; Hugh Conway, HM Consul; and Captain Charles Mallinson, HM Vice-Consul.

Mysteriously none of them reached their destination...

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Episode 2 52:51
Shangri-La

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.

Episode 3 1:48:04
The Inheritance

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.

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