| Lost Empires | |
| Author: | J. B. Priestley |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Heinemann |
| Release Date: | 1965 |
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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]