Shangri-La Again Shangri-La Again Spike Milligan's radio play Shangri-La Again is based loosely on the novel "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton. The story is set during the invasion of Manchuria (1933). Ned Seagoon leads the British residents of Peking in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of the invading Japanese army. A pilot by the name of Count Moriarty offers to fly the residents to freedom for a considerable fee, however, even his plans are wrecked when his plane crashes in the mountains. Moriarty, Seagoon and the other survivors must rely on a mysterious, barefoot boy named Bluebottle to guide them
Lost Horizon called the first American paperback book, when in fact paperbacks had been around since the mid-1800s. What made Pocket Book #1 of revolutionary importance was that it was the first "mass-market" paperback; mass market paperbacks allowed people of modest means not only to own books they otherwise could not afford but also to slip the paperback into their pocket for casual reading on the go, hence the name "Pocket Book". By the 1960s, Pocket Books alone, over the course of more than 40 printings, had sold several million copies of "Lost Horizon", helping to make it one of the most