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GREAT LIVES SERIES 41 - 5. SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB ON CS LEWIS (320kbs-m4a/57mb/24mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 24th June 2021
Step though the wardrobe on Great Lives as CS Lewis - creator of the Narnia Chronicles - is this week's choice. Lewis was a fascinating and extremely complicated man. Born in Northern Ireland, his mother died when he was a child, and his university career interrupted so he could go off and fight in the Great War.
Historian Suzannah Lipscomb, who tweets as sixteenth-century girl, says she finds his writings deeply moving and that they have influenced her faith.
Matthew Parris is less convinced by the religious influence in his work. Malcolm Guite, contributer to the Cambridge Companion to CS Lewis, sits firmly on Suzannah Lipscomb's side.
The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.
ROBIN BROOKS - LEWIS AND TOLKIEN: THE LOST ROAD (320kbs-m4a/101mb/44mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 4th September 2023
Whether you like or loathe elves and talking lions, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis each created compelling fictional worlds whose influence has become global.
CS Lewis was an academic and broadcaster whose prolific publication of literary criticism, novels, Christian apologia and the Narnia books for children brought him an international reputation in his lifetime.
By the time of his death in 1973, JRR Tolkien's 'The Lord of The Rings' and 'The Hobbit', (along with other published stories and poems which drew upon the mythology of Middle Earth), had already made him a cult figure around the world.
Starring Haydn Gwynne, Tom Goodman-Hill and Pip Torrens.
Robin Brooks' drama is a playful tribute to the long friendship between the two men, and the way it shaped their achievements.
Elf Queen ...... Haydn Gwynne
JRR Tolkien ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
CS Lewis ...... Pip Torrens
Worm ...... Carolyn Pickles
Betjeman ...... Harry Jardine
Informator ...... John Norton
Marcus ...... Arthur Hughes
Tiny Elf Princess ...... Isabel Brooks
Director: Jonquil Panting.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.