S6E37 – TMN – Narnia Month: “The Magician’s Nephew (Part I)”
Today we begin Narnia Month by reading “The Magician’s Nephew”, joined by Andrew’s wife, Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo.
Today we begin Narnia Month by reading “The Magician’s Nephew”, joined by Andrew’s wife, Dr. Christin Ditchfield-Lazo.
After not recording together in a while, the gang exchange life updates and Matt asks about an Anglican archbishop who suggested that the Lord’s prayer might be triggering…
As we approach the end of “Jack’s Bookshelf”, we welcome Rachel Sherlock from the “Risking Enchantment” podcast to talk about one of the more surprising influences on Lewis, Jane Austen.
Continuing our perusal of “Jack’s Bookshelf”, today David interview co-host of “Classical Stuff You Should Know”, Graeme Donaldson, about the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton.
As we continue to browse through Jack’s bookshelf, David interviews Dr. Sarah Waters about William Shakespeare.
Dr. Michael Dauphinais joins David for a half-pint to discuss the links between “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, and the book from this week’s “Jack’s Bookshelf”, Dante Aligeri’s “Divine Comedy”.
Today we kick off “Jack’s Bookshelf”, a series of episodes where we consider the authors and works which shaped the life of C.S. Lewis. Today we speak to returning guest, Dr. Jason Baxter, and begin with Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy.
David quizzes Matt and Andrew on toasts, they argue about the state of Malacandra, and cast actors for their movie.
David recently tracked down the audio for an operatic adaptation of Perelandra, the sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, and invited Professor Judith Wolfe and Professor John Marr onto the show to talk about it.
David and Marie had the opportunity to go to Chicago to watch “BareFace”, a ballet-adaptation of “Till We Have Faces”, produced by Ballet 5:8. Afterwards they sat down to share their thoughts…