Lost Horizon - James Hilton - 1981 - BBC Audio Drama

Lost Horizon - James Hilton - 1981 - BBC Audio Drama
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BBC dramatization of the 1933 novel by James Hilton starring Derek Jacobi.
After a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, English diplomat Hugh Conway claims to have stumbled upon the utopian world of Shangri-La.

First Broadcast 1981. 3x60 mins

1 - The Kidnapping
During May 1931 the revolutionary situation in Baskul worsened and Air Force machines arrived from Peshawar to evacuate the white residents. A few miscellaneous aircraft were also employed, among them one lent by the Maharajah of Chandapore. In this four passengers embarked: Miss Roberta Brinklow, of the Eastern Mission; Henry D. Barnard, a US citizen; Hugh Conway, HM Consul; and Captain Charles Mallinson, HM Vice-consul. They did not reach their destination. 

2 - Shangri-La
The aeroplane carrying Conway, Mallinson, Barnard and Miss Brinklow crash-landed on a high pass in the Karakorum mountains. Out of the Tibetan wilderness suddenly appeared the Chinaman, Chang.

3 - 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 Conway discovered during an audience with the High Lama that he was conversing with a man who was incredibly old