''Lost Empires'' is a 1965 novel by the British writer J. B. Priestley. A young man comes of age in the provincial

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just before the outbreak of the

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. 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.Gale p.40 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.

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* John Baxendale. ''Priestley’s England: J. B. Priestley and English culture''. Manchester University Press, 2013. * Maggie B. Gale. ''J.B. Priestley''. Routledge, 2008. 1965 British novels Novels by J. B. Priestley Theatre-fiction Novels set in the 1910s British novels adapted into television shows Heinemann (publisher) books {{1960s-novel-stub