Category: C. S. Lewis
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Ransom Trilogy – Perelandra
Perelandra (1943) Oct 2, 2020 The Lost Lewis Tapes: Vol. 2, Perelandra In a quiet room at the Kilns in August 1960, C. S. Lewis recorded three audio tracks on a portable reel-to-reel tape deck. In one of those tracks, Lewis reads from Perelandra for 27 minutes, narrating in a mesmerizing and confident voice Elwin Ransom’s arrival on the watery…
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Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters (1942) May 21, 2021 The Screwtape Letters w/ Dr. Jerry Root These days, discussions about demons and temptation are an uncommon occurrence—at least sober ones. In this week’s episode, Dr. Jerry Root sits down with Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing to discuss The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C.S. Lewis. What inspired Lewis to write…
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Radio Addresses
Jul 24, 2020 “Down to the Wireless: The Radio Addresses of C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers.” Before he was famous for his books, C.S. Lewis was one of the most well-recognized voices in Britain because of his broadcasts on ‘the wireless.’ In this week’s episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing sit down…
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The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain, Part 1 and Part 2 (1940) Part 1 Jan 21, 2022 Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 2, The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis “We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.” Dr. Jerry Root, scholar and close friend of the podcast, is back again for our second installment of…
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Ransom Trilogy – Out of the Silent Planet
Out of the Silent Planet (1938) Sep 18, 2020 The Lost Lewis Tapes: Vol. 1, Out of the Silent Planet Before he was known as a children’s author, C.S. Lewis wrote science fiction. Listen to never-before-heard audio recordings of Lewis reading from his Ransom Trilogy in this exciting three-part series on Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous…
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Ransom Trilogy – Lost Lewis Tapes
Ransom Trilogy (1938-1945): Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength Purchase and listen to The Lost Lewis Tapes over at the Rabbit Room for only $3. Click here to learn more about The Lost Lewis Tapes, who recorded them, and how the Marion E. Wade Center is able to make them available 70…
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933) Jun 4, 2021 Deciphering The Pilgrim’s Regress by C.S. Lewis Less than a year after his conversion, C.S. Lewis wrote The Pilgrim’s Regress in only two weeks while visiting his friend Arthur Greeves in Ireland. Lewis’s thick landscape of literary allusions, quotes, and philosophical criticism has long thwarted interested readers. In this week’s episode,…
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Dymer
Dymer (1926; pseudonym Clive Hamilton); Book launch by Jerry Root November 18, 2020 Book Launch for Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work Author and Professor of Evangelism Jerry Root and Wade Center Co-director David C. Downing discuss this fourth volume in the Hansen Lectureship series. Several years before he converted…
