Music producer, gallery owner and now novelist Tot Taylor joins John and Andy on the Backlisted podcast to discuss James Hilton's 1933 novel about an earthly paradise in the far Himalayas. And the various iterations of the story that came after.

Books mentioned:

Lifting the Latch : A Life on the Land - Based on the Life of Mont Abbott of Enstone, Oxfordshire
- Sheila Stewart
Hearing Secret Harmonies - Anthony Powell
The Story of John Nightly - Tot Taylor
Goodbye Mr Chips;
Random Harvest
Wake Up and Live! : A Formula for Success That Really Works - Dorothea Brande
Topper - Thorne Smith
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Enough Rope - Dorothy Parker
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
The Way of all Flesh - Samuel Butler
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Bambi - Felix Salten
News from Nowhere - William Morris

Other links:

Fats Domino - Everybody’s Got Something to Hide
TLS review by AN Wilson of Powell biography by Hilary Spurling
James Hilton talking about Lost Horizon
Bacharach Soundtrack to Lost Horizon musical