Lost Horizon by James Hilton

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🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Music producer, gallery owner and now novelist Tot Taylor joins John and Andy 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. Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 4'22 - Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land by Sheila Stewart 11'19 - Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell 22'28 - Lost Horizon by James Hilton * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. * For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The And then I had this lovely two hour chat with Kurt Tott over where he talks me through.
0:22.0	You know, not that I ever need to know why the Beatles are the best band
0:26.0	of it other, but he actually gave me precise musical reasons.
0:30.0	You also said the thing that is completely obsessed me ever since.
0:33.2	Todd is here everybody.
0:34.2	But completely obsessed me ever since I said nobody can cover the Beatles.
0:38.8	They're always shit.
0:39.6	Beetle covers are always 10 covers.
0:41.6	Oh man. Oh, man. Come, that's fighting at all.
0:44.0	Challenge it then.
0:45.0	Okay.
0:47.0	I will give you, I tell you that a good one.
0:49.0	The late fats domino, there's a version of everybody's got something to My Monkey from the White Album by Fat's Domino,
0:56.6	which the Beatles themselves felt was superior to their own version.
1:01.0	I'm just saying, right? I think that is brilliant I mean I didn't know that
1:07.4	it but what I mean is when people do yesterday or if they do you know I want to hold your hand or they do, she loves you.
1:15.6	There's some weird reason which top was really interesting about why there's some
1:21.1	sort of weird DNA thing in the Beatles that makes them difficult.
1:25.4	It's the personality that we love.
1:27.6	We're in love with the Beatles personality.
1:29.8	Chorism.
1:30.8	As a charisma in their voices.
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