Lost Empires (novel)

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Lost Empires
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First edition
Author J. B. Priestley
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama, Theatre-fiction
Publisher Heinemann
Publication date
1965
Media typePrint

Lost Empires is a 1965 novel by the British writer J. B. Priestley. A young man comes of age in the provincial music hall just before the outbreak of the First World War. It was set in a similar milieu to Priestley's earlier work The Good Companions .

In 1986 it was adapted into a television series of the same name starring Colin Firth, John Castle, Laurence Olivier. [1] A BBC radio dramatisation by Bert Coules starring Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton was first broadcast in 1994, most recently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra in May 2020. [2]

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References

  1. Gale p.40
  2. "JB Priestley - Lost Empires, 1. Overtures and Beginners". BBC. 18 September 1994. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

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