Written and presented by
Michael Wood

Filmed and Directed by
Sean Smith - Shangri La and Jason
Jeremy Jeffs - Sheba and Arthur

Series Producer
Rebecca Dobbs

Producer
Sally Thomas

Editor
Gerry Branigan

Music composed and conducted by
Howard Davidson

Music performed by
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Executive Producers
Leo Eaton for PBS
Krishan Arora for BBC

Storytellers
Sasha Behar - Jason
Adjoa Andoh - Sheba
Syreeta Kumar - Shangri-La
Aoife McMahon - Arthur

Storyteller Director
Gregory Doran

Dubbing Mixer
Bob Jackson

Research
Daisy Newton Dunn - Sheba, Shangri-La and Arthur
Laura Cooper - Jason

Production
Daisy Newton Dunn
Aaron Young
Kevin Rowan

Fixers
Gyurme Dorje - Tibet
Nepal Trust - Nepal
Earthcare Films - India
HIghlight films - Israel
Jordan Pioneers - Jordan
Magdi Rashidy - Egypt
Jonah Fisher - Eritrea
Universal Touring Company - Yemen
Samson Mekonnen - Ethiopia
Hara Palamedi - Greece
Cem Yucesoy - Turkey
Dima Bit-Suleiman - Georgia
Natalia Antelava - Georgia

Sound
Callum Bulmer - Jason and Arthur
Julian Chatterjee - Arthur
Mahmoud El Batout - Sheba
Ravid Biran - Sheba
Stuart Bruce - Shangri-La

Stills Photographer
Steven Razzetti

Graphics
Shroom

Additional Graphics
John Cranmer

On-line Editor
Tam Osman

Colourist
Colin Peters

Dubbing Editor
Aleksander Nikolic

For WETA

Publicity
Mary Stewart
Dewey Blanton

Station Relations
Karen Fritz
Suzanne Masri

Production Management
Jim Corbley

Executive Producers
Dalton Delan
David S. Thompson

THANKS TO

Sheba
Ethiopian Embassy in London
The British Museum
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Ben-Zvi Institute

Shangri-La
The Nepal Trust
Gyurme Dorje
The Tibet Foundation

Arthur
The National Trust
English Heritage
Historic Scotland
University College Dublin
The Gorseth of the Bards of Cornwall
Regia Anglorum
Hawkstone Park
Glastonbury Chalice Well
The British Library
Julia Margaret Cameron Trust

Jason
Committee for Pontic Studies
Professor Kevin Tuite
Hasen Gjur

ARCHIVE

Shangri-la
The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Lost Horizon clips by permission of Columbia Tri-Star

Jason
Jason and the Argonauts clips furnished by Crown Media Distribution, LLC

Arthur
Excalibur clips by permission of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Glastonbury Past and Present 1921 by permission of BFI