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