James Hilton (novelist) picked "Lost Horizon" as its first title in 1939. For that reason, the novel is frequently called the book that began the "paperback revolution." Hilton is said to have been inspired to write "Lost Horizon", and to invent "Shangri-La" by reading the "National Geographic Magazine" articles of Joseph Rock, an Austrian-American botanist and ethnologist exploring the southwestern Chinese provinces and Tibetan borderlands. Still living in Britain at the time, Hilton was perhaps influenced by the Tibetan travel articles of early travellers in Tibet whose writings were found in the British Library. Christian Zeeman, the Danish father of the mathematician Christopher
Paradise Lost in popular culture Paradise Lost in popular culture "Paradise Lost" has had a profound impact on writers, artists and illustrators, and, in the twentieth century, filmmakers. A 41 15-minute episode production by Adrian Mitchell was broadcast in 1992 on BBC Radio 4, with Denis Quilley as Milton, Ian McDiarmid as Satan, Linus Roache as Adam, Robert Glenister as Christ, Matthew Morgan as Beelzebub, Mark Straker as Michael and Federay Holmes as Eve. This production was re-broadcast in 2010 on BBC Radio 7. A 12-part reading by Anton Lesser was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 from 22 December 2008 to 2 January 2009. A