In this season our main text was Out of the Silent Planet. For our Narnia book, we read The Magician’s Nephew. In addition to various “After Hours” episode, we also did a series on authors who shaped Lewis’ thought.
Out of the Silent Planet (January – June 2023)
We’ll read through the first of the Ransom trilogy, punctuated by interviews with Sci-Fi experts…
- S6E1 – OSP (Introduction) – “Ad Astra”
- S6E2 – OSP 1 – “Road House”
- S6E3 – AH – “C.S. Lewis for beginners”, After Hours with Dr. Louis Markos
- S6E4 – OSP 2 – “Cocktail”
- S6E5 – OSP 3+4 – “Rocketman”
- S6E6 – AH – “Compass for Deep Heaven”, After Hours with Dr. Diana Glyer
- S6E7 – OSP 5+6 – “Interstellar”
- S6E8 – OSP 7+8 – “Arrival”
- S6E9 – AH – “The Completion of C.S. Lewis”, After Hours with Dr. Harry Lee Poe
- S6E10 – OSP 9+10 – “First Contact”
- S6E11 – OSP 11 – “The Quiet Place”
- S6E12 – AH – “Planets in Peril”, After Hours with Dr. David Downing
- S6E13 – OSP 12 – “Jaws”
- S6E14 – OSP 13 – “Predator”
- S6E15 – AH – “C.S. Lewis on Scripture”, After Hours with Dr. Michael J. Christensen
- S6E16 – OSP 14+15 – “In the Heights”
- S6E17 – AH – “Deeper Heaven”, After Hours with Cristiana Hale
- S6E18 – OSP 16 – “Gods and Monsters”
- S6E19 – OSP 17 – “The Island”
- S6E20 – OSP 18 – “The Martian”
- S6E21 – AH – “Jack and the Evangelicals”, After Hours with Dr. Philip Ryken
- S6E22 – OSP 19 – “Lost in Translation”
- S6E23 – OSP 20 – “War of the Worlds”
- S6E24 – OSP 21 – “Down to Earth”
- S6E25 – “Lesser-Known Lewis”, After Hours with Sean and Jordan
- S6E26 – OSP 22 and Postscript – “Heaven is for real”
- S6E27 – AH – “The Lion’s Country”, After Hours with Dr. Charlie W. Starr
- S6E28 – “The Dark Tower” – Dr. Junius Johnson
- S6E29 – AH – “BareFace”, After Hours with Marie Bates
- S6E30 – AH – “Perelandra: The Opera”, After Hours with Prof. Judith Wolfe & John Marr
- S6E31 – OSP – “Out of the Silent Planet” Retrospective
“Jack’s Bookshelf” Month (July 2023)
In order to comprehend Lewis better, we’ll be looking at the authors he read and speaking to experts about them in order to understand them better. We will most likely have this series every season because Lewis read so much!
- S6E32 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Dante Alighieri”, After Hours with Dr. Jason M. Baxter
- S6E33 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: William Shakespeare”, After Hours with Dr. Sarah Waters
- S6E34 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: John Milton”, After Hours with Graeme Donaldson
- S6E35 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Jane Austen”, After Hours with Rachel Sherlock
- S6E36 – AH – “Jack’s Bookshelf: Dorothy L. Sayers”, After Hours with Dr. Crystal Downing
“Narnia” Month (August 2023)
We read our Narnian Chronicle for the season and interview authors who have written about Narnia.
- S6E37 – Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew (Part I)
- S6E38 – Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew (Part II)
- S6E39 – AH – “A Narnian Vision of the Atonement”, After Hours with Dr. Charles Taliaferro
- S6E40 – AH – “Live like a Narnian”, After Hours with Dr. Joe Rigney
- S6E41 – AH – “The Case for Aslan”, After Hours with David Marshall
- S6E42 – AH – “The Lion’s World”, After Hours with Rev. Rowan Williams
Conclusion (September 2023)
Wrapping up the season with a few “After Hours” interviews and the Season Finale
- S6E43 – AH – “What Barfield Thought”, After Hours with Landon Loftin and Dr. Max Leyf
- S6E44 – AH – “Surprised By Oxford”, After Hours Dr. Carolyn Weber
- S6E45 – AH – “A Hebraic Inkling”, After Hours with Dr. Yaakov Weinstein
- S6E46 – AH – “C.S. Lewis Book Club”, After Hours with Dan and Alex
- S6E47 – AH – “No Ordinary People”, After Hours with Dr. Joel Heck
- S6E48 – AH – “Tolkien’s Faith”, After Hours with Dr. Holly Ordway
- S6E49 – AH – “Astrophysics and Cosmic Salvation”, After Hours with Jimmy Akin
- S6E50 – Finale – “Season 6 Finale”
Half Pint Episodes
- Half Pint with Sophia Holcomb (“Discovering C. S. Lewis”)
- Half Pint with Michele Hogan (“Inkling Candles”)
- Half Pint with Alan Sisto (“Why we love Middle Earth”)
- Half Pint with Adam Hourican (“Checkmate!”)
- Half Pint with Daniel and Phil (“The Lamp-Post Listener”)
- Half Pint with Tom Hillman (“Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring”)