Beyond Narnia: The Real Life Of C.S. Lewis | The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis

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  • @jeromesullivan4015
    @jeromesullivan4015 11 місяців тому +69

    Bless him and everyone that has glimpsed a bit of his genius.

    • @Rosemary-u5z3y
      @Rosemary-u5z3y 6 місяців тому +4

      🙏🌻🪷 This world is in need of spiritual enlightening literatures to counter-act the violence and horrific crimes committed every day. 🙏🌻🪷 Cease to do harm, learn to do all good. Cultivate compassion, kindness and unconditional love . Be the light of this world ♥️🌺 🌸

  • @Sheraleeable
    @Sheraleeable Місяць тому +9

    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C.S. Lewis
    Until I read that book, I had read nothing that truly described my experience of grief…and I was relieved.

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 5 місяців тому +43

    He is everything to me. I'm rereading the Chronicles of Narnia again as I do almost annually since the age of eight. I'm 65.

  • @louisetrott5532
    @louisetrott5532 5 місяців тому +78

    While I was studying Old Norse literature in Oxford during the Summer of 1988, I was a member of the C S Lewis Society, and we held a meeting at The Kilns. We cycled out there one weekend afternoon, and enjoyed sitting there in the sitting room, listening to a paper presented by a guest. I think this was arranged by a member of the Society who knew the caretaker of the House. Such a privilege.

    • @maryvalentine9090
      @maryvalentine9090 5 місяців тому +4

      That was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and seriously so cool!

    • @louisetrott5532
      @louisetrott5532 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@maryvalentine9090 Indeed!!!

    • @leecarlson9713
      @leecarlson9713 5 місяців тому +4

      I too, have visited The Kilns, in 1974. A lovely home, and deeply cherished by his fans. And I have sat at the table in the pub where the Inklings met to discuss their works, and read their current projects. Heady stuff, indeed!

    • @brucegold8884
      @brucegold8884 5 місяців тому +1

      ASLAN OF OXFORD!

    • @ramonagriffith4806
      @ramonagriffith4806 3 місяці тому

      😊l p​@@maryvalentine9090

  • @rosamundg.
    @rosamundg. 6 місяців тому +44

    Thanks so much for posting this excellent documentary💚

  • @1979snicks
    @1979snicks 4 місяці тому +19

    As an historian, a tutor and writer and a Judea-Christian, this poignant doc gutted me thoroughly and made me so bloody grateful that this man’s work was part of my upbringing. Thank u mom & dad. Os quiero tanto

    • @drhyshek
      @drhyshek 2 місяці тому

      It’s “a” historian, not “an”.

  • @rmsf1072
    @rmsf1072 Рік тому +37

    Thank you for the real story!

  • @valeriechesne3514
    @valeriechesne3514 5 місяців тому +27

    I teach 5th grade at an urban school in Louisiana. One of our novels was LWW. I can not tell you how this novel affected my students. When a student from the hood, who doesn’t want to read, picked up LWW and become engrossed with this book.

    • @roelienpostma2367
      @roelienpostma2367 5 місяців тому +5

      Wow, how nice that children are allowed to read childrens fantasy novels! Here in Holland it is mostly serious, boring books for children.....

  • @maehay4065
    @maehay4065 5 місяців тому +19

    C. S. Lewis who was one of the great men of this era, who I enjoyed reading about many years back. Now that I’ve listened to this wonderful documentary I can see how he also suffered from great loss as some of us have suffered. Thank you for sharing this documentary about him. 👍

  • @wrenlittle8826
    @wrenlittle8826 Рік тому +36

    How delightful so very well done and how lovely to hear Robert Hardy one of my favorite actors.

    • @DJKSB58
      @DJKSB58 4 місяці тому +1

      Yes! Siegfried Farnon from All Creatures Great and Small

  • @amandawright7216
    @amandawright7216 11 місяців тому +38

    CS Lewis my fellow Ulsterman and Christian brother. One of Our True Greats.
    He is up there with Robert Blair Mayne amongst my countries absolute Best.

  • @elviramcintosh9878
    @elviramcintosh9878 6 місяців тому +27

    A magnificent portrait of a remarkable man! A great production. I found it interesting how easily dismissed as a poet he is presented. He is, in fact a very good poet. Possible years ahead of what we now call poetry, with one exemption: like in his Narnia and science fiction books, his poems are backed by and packed with centuries of the wisdom he collected in his head and in his heart. It may be time to give his poetry another go. To read it as he meant it to be read. With profound understanding. Dymer would rest in better peace if we did. Thank you for sharing this wonderful insight into my favourite writer. Greetings from Australia.

  • @kensears5099
    @kensears5099 5 місяців тому +10

    I actually love Lewis' short poetry. Some of it is so moving I cannot read it aloud without choking up.

  • @glenDora_
    @glenDora_ 7 місяців тому +104

    You should invest in the Narnia books and read them. I think Narnia is heaven! I was about 85 or so when I bought the set at a garage sale, but before giving them to my great grandchildren I had to read them to make sure they were something I wanted them to read.I am 82 and this year I bought myself a set. Very easy to read, give them a try! 😘 Grannie Lou

    • @glenDora_
      @glenDora_ 7 місяців тому +14

      I was 75 or so not 85. Sorry, 😘 Lou

    • @Rosemary-u5z3y
      @Rosemary-u5z3y 6 місяців тому +7

      🙏🌻🪷 👍Thank you Grandma. May the words of God guide your eternal immortal soul always. 🌷

    • @jpkatz1435
      @jpkatz1435 5 місяців тому

      I think my pryer is for God to guide my consciousness that is indeveroring to know The Soul. One way or another the key thing, for me, is that we "mear Christans" are asking God for "His" direct experience. 56:26 ​@user-qr7sv6sc7d

    • @charitywattenburger4550
      @charitywattenburger4550 5 місяців тому +3

      I have the Big book 📖 of 7 stories. It is my favorite book of all the books I’ve read over my lifetime. The movie The Lion 🦁, The Witch 🧙‍♀️, and The Wardrobe was always a favorite go-to when my kids were growing up.

    • @spottyhag
      @spottyhag 5 місяців тому +3

      I have all these books and have read them many times. I recommend his book Mere Christianity also.

  • @yingcox1562
    @yingcox1562 11 місяців тому +35

    Really enjoyed watching this, Thank you

  • @NorCalGhost07
    @NorCalGhost07 Рік тому +43

    This was wonderfully presented. I hadn't intended to watch it in one sitting but was shocked to find that at midnight, it was over.

  • @TheTanwk
    @TheTanwk 6 місяців тому +13

    I thank God for the privilege of getting to know a little more about this almost mystical man, a most convert who became a champion of God! All glory be to God!

  • @debbieellett9093
    @debbieellett9093 Рік тому +26

    I am so very glad I found this channel. I have always had an infinity for the marvelous man. Very well researched and presented!

    • @annchovey2089
      @annchovey2089 Рік тому +4

      Research is horrible. Wilson is terrible biographer. He said that Lewis never wrote any apologetics after the debate with Anscombe. He wrote plenty of apologetics and even Anscombe herself said the incident was no big deal. People made way more of it than what happened. Lewis was not destroyed over it. I wouldn’t trust anything Wilson says. He used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity.” He supposedly came back to the faith but he has made no retraction of his error filled book on Lewis.

    • @debbieellett9093
      @debbieellett9093 Рік тому +2

      @annchovey2089, thank you for setting the record straight. I truly wish I had been able to sit in on CS Lewis's lectures. There is a channel that features his essays, which are fascinating. Anyway, thanks again and I will be more careful about praising Wilson. Have a great day😊

    • @annchovey2089
      @annchovey2089 Рік тому +3

      @@debbieellett9093 You're welcome. I would trust anything by Douglas Gresham (Lewis' stepson), Terry Glaspey, or Louis Markos. Don't bother with "Jack" by George Sayer. He claimed CSL lost his faith after Joy died but that is not true. He still continued to write works of a theological nature. The movie "Shadowlands" tries to paint CSL the same way. It was an emotionally accurate movie but not factual. People hostile to the faith are anxious to paint Lewis as someone who lost his faith. Couldn't be further from the truth.

    • @sohara....
      @sohara.... 5 місяців тому

      ​@@annchovey2089 thanks for the recommendations.

    • @robertbellwood1024
      @robertbellwood1024 3 місяці тому

      😂😂t​@@debbieellett9093

  • @davidisrael-zz1zz
    @davidisrael-zz1zz 6 місяців тому +28

    C.S. Lewis a hero of faith, had his moments. And left a legacy of love for each of us. As a Jew come to Messiah of Isaiah 53 in my best friend and savior I do so appreciate Him and His writings. amen ty for the share....best to all friends.

  • @jeannemara1600
    @jeannemara1600 5 місяців тому +21

    C.S. Lewis is one of my all-time favorite suthors. But, my love of him is not so much for his novels as his Christian writing. A highly intelligent and commonsensical approach. I read them over and over and over again.

  • @mbill1578
    @mbill1578 5 місяців тому +29

    Grew up surrounded by books....son of a wealthy lawyer...and a loving brother..... how wonderful

    • @Lemma01
      @Lemma01 5 місяців тому +3

      Yes indeed - mine was similar. Not sure why one would present him as tragic - he doesn't himself (in "SbJ"). Looking for "key turning points" in another's life is a mistake, even if it makes biographies easier to construct!

    • @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss
      @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss 2 місяці тому

      Blessed in deed 👍

    • @emac543
      @emac543 Місяць тому

      @@Lemma01 He wasn't allowed to stay. At nine years old he had to leave to boarding school after his mother's death. He himself said it was bleak.

  • @carolinependleton8445
    @carolinependleton8445 4 місяці тому +3

    Lovely to see Robert Hardy being interviewed,my favourite book as a child,The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,great documentary of his life.

  • @normanbrown9225
    @normanbrown9225 5 місяців тому +12

    My PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN LIFE IS, SOMETIMES We Have to LOOSE ourself to FIND OUR SELF.❤

  • @JacquelineDeigan
    @JacquelineDeigan 2 місяці тому +1

    Poor C.S.Lewis.
    I can always remember reading the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe..it was a book my favourite teacher and Great friend lent to me at the age of 7 or 8.
    The chronicles of Narnia are still my favourite.
    R.I.P. C.S.Lewis

  • @reinadegrillos
    @reinadegrillos 5 місяців тому +4

    Thank you so much for this excellent documentary on the great C.S.Lewis, I've never eead Narnia but loved deeply his Medieval books.

  • @pmajudge
    @pmajudge Рік тому +15

    EXCELLENT ! A.N. WILSON. GREAT STORY OF C.S. LEWIS. MANY THANKS FROM, U.K. (2023).

    • @annchovey2089
      @annchovey2089 Рік тому +3

      Wilson’s book on Lewis is filled with errors. He used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity”. He has yet to apologize or set the record straight.

  • @teslaandhumanity7383
    @teslaandhumanity7383 4 місяці тому +4

    My teacher read us Lion , Witch and the Wardrobe to us when we were in junior school about 8/9 yrars old 1969-70 . Great escapism.

  • @scm731
    @scm731 5 місяців тому +6

    Thank you for sharing this with us. I am very grateful.🌞

  • @VickyNicoll-r2m
    @VickyNicoll-r2m 5 місяців тому +14

    I very much appreciated this. Thanku

  • @johnathansawyer8736
    @johnathansawyer8736 3 місяці тому +3

    Very well done biography! Thank you!

  • @Anne.2024
    @Anne.2024 5 місяців тому +9

    Wonderful documentary, should have been a series.

  • @barbarabauling7513
    @barbarabauling7513 2 місяці тому +1

    That was excellent. Well researched and very moving. Many, many thanks. :)

  • @ChrisMusante
    @ChrisMusante Рік тому +101

    I never could read very well... and have read only a handful of books (less than 10) cover to cover. Oddly, I can write like the wind... and it's kind of you to present this work - these folks are people we should know - as 'real people'.

    • @melindalemmon2149
      @melindalemmon2149 5 місяців тому +8

      Try THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS?

    • @ChrisMusante
      @ChrisMusante 5 місяців тому +6

      @@melindalemmon2149 - tell ya what... I'd love to have it read to me. Wink wink.
      My 'problem' is a massive IQ and memory to match - and the 'tragedy' is that as I read, I pick up on the subtle meter of the way sentences morph in their context. Certainly there is a proper one, but I end up swirling around all the different ways to read the same thing. I find this mostly in scriptures.
      Example...
      Jesus says, "For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray.
      Does this mean that those saying these things are claiming to be 'the Christ' or... that they are just saying that Jesus is the Christ, but because they cannot 'read' OR 'accurately teach' will lead many astray?
      So then I've got (2) possibilities to contend with and then it stacks and grows and is too much work. Hahaha.
      I don't know if you are familiar with the term 'Theodicy' but I have resolved and reduced the complexities of the 'paradox' and find that the problem (with evil) is that people cannot see the purpose and even the 'need' of it.
      Example 2..
      God cannot break His promises not show partiality. Thus 'grace' is merely a delay in judgement wherein we get to do what is 'evil' and not IMMEDIATELY pay for it. Thus, grace is 'evil' that is 'used for good'.
      I think this marries well to what Paul is saying - to his 'confused' audience when he says, "should we sin more that grace abound?? Certainly not!!"
      The kindness of your reply says much about you - thanks muchly. 😊

    • @melindalemmon2149
      @melindalemmon2149 5 місяців тому

      @@ChrisMusante ua-cam.com/video/r0KD3khB41g/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared

    • @sandytucker51
      @sandytucker51 5 місяців тому

      P❤❤❤1111❤❤1à

    • @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401
      @sarahhearn-vonfoerster7401 5 місяців тому

      ​@@ChrisMusante
      Very interesting

  • @thearab59
    @thearab59 5 місяців тому +8

    This world is almost gone. We should treasure it, those of us who still can. Soon, this will be purely history, the last human connections gone.

  • @jericox2980
    @jericox2980 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for this interesting insight into his life. You are an excellent narrator.

  • @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss
    @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss 2 місяці тому +1

    Proof that older folk can still find love ❤❤❤

  • @monyx2926
    @monyx2926 5 місяців тому +15

    And, interestingly, Aslan, the name of the lion in the Narnia books, is the Turkish word for lion. Although I am not Turkish, Turkish was my first language.

    • @BonnieBlair-zm4uu
      @BonnieBlair-zm4uu 5 місяців тому +1

      My Beloved, Rescued from a Walmart parking 🅿️ lot by the Humane Society, Aslan 🦁🐈 kitty, departed to the Rainbow Bridge on May 5, 2024, exactly 3 months ago. Aslan was 🚫 not in Baby 🍼 name book 📚 📖 but was in a Narnia collector's edition book, so I finally learned his name meant ♌ Lion. He was the father figure for all my rescued cats.🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱✨🐾🌈🌉✨🐾🦁🐈✨🕊️

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes I remember seeing the word Aslan in Istanbul above an image of a lion on a shop front, nearly had a heart attack

    • @BonnieBlair-zm4uu
      @BonnieBlair-zm4uu 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jillybe1873 Cool 😎👍 Thanks for sharing. I love Aslan ✨🦁🐈🕯️✨ stories.

  • @paulkeith5000
    @paulkeith5000 4 місяці тому +2

    Time Magazine referred to 22 November 1963 as "The Day The Giants Fell". I wish, today and for the rest of my life, that I had kept and cherished that edition.

  • @davidgray3321
    @davidgray3321 3 місяці тому +2

    I thought this was an excellent work, well researched and presented, thank you.

  • @paulinedurman5015
    @paulinedurman5015 Рік тому +12

    Very inspirational and challenging

  • @Golding247
    @Golding247 5 місяців тому +5

    Wonderful film, thank you so much

  • @JulieLambert33
    @JulieLambert33 3 місяці тому +1

    Wonderful. Loved watching this, thank you.

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 11 місяців тому +7

    Thanks from old New Orleans 😇

  • @bobjary9382
    @bobjary9382 4 місяці тому +3

    Hooray for AN Wilson !

  • @carolashe5671
    @carolashe5671 2 місяці тому +1

    Beautiful tribute ❤️

  • @dorothygorska-tyas6958
    @dorothygorska-tyas6958 4 місяці тому +2

    ☆Deeply touching documentary.☆

  • @leecarlson9713
    @leecarlson9713 5 місяців тому +3

    Other than the NARNIA series, my favorite works by C S Lewis are THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS and A GRIEF OBSERVED.

  • @BarbaraRademacher
    @BarbaraRademacher 4 місяці тому +2

    Excellent! What a wonderful documentary!

  • @ellenjane6
    @ellenjane6 5 місяців тому +8

    My son did learn to read on the story at the age of 13 splendidly

  • @Heather-x4q
    @Heather-x4q Місяць тому +1

    Thank You ❤❤❤

  • @lguz386
    @lguz386 7 місяців тому +9

    this was such a great story .Bless you all .

  • @warronconroy8460
    @warronconroy8460 5 місяців тому +4

    Deep thanks to A.N.Wilson for a wonderful telling of this story.

  • @jennyblaine5052
    @jennyblaine5052 2 місяці тому +2

    I thought I wrote this before, but AN Wilson appears to be an Elf! LOL

  • @GabyGibson
    @GabyGibson 3 місяці тому +1

    One of my favorite authors.

  • @boonl1536
    @boonl1536 3 місяці тому +1

    Outstanding.Bravo.Enjoy it💖👍✔✔❤❤💖💕🙌

  • @Rita-nx6fg
    @Rita-nx6fg 5 місяців тому +4

    Excellent 😊❤

  • @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss
    @B.Dazzeled-cj4ss 2 місяці тому +1

    Thank you 👍😊

  • @BrightyAlbo
    @BrightyAlbo 4 місяці тому +1

    I've enjoyed this documentary!

  • @phillipleboa5251
    @phillipleboa5251 3 місяці тому +1

    BEAUTIFUL.

  • @williamfoley5687
    @williamfoley5687 Рік тому +7

    PTL for CS Lewis

  • @jeannemara1600
    @jeannemara1600 4 місяці тому +2

    My favorites are his Christian apologist books. Absolutely the best.

  • @gillianshaw9403
    @gillianshaw9403 5 місяців тому +4

    Yep! Good programme tho' not a big fan of Wilson's book. But Alistair McGrath's is "unputdownable" as is the latest one by Harry Lee Poe... 3 volumes & quite superb. (Lee Poe has been interviewed several times & is fascinating listening. Jack & Warren were only sent to schools in England to get rid of their Irish accents. Seriously! Further, Jack drank just as much as his brother---he just didn't go in for "binges"!) But Poe's emphasis on Lewis' love of the "The Hero's Journey" motif in myth & legend was such an eye-opener for me. Guess it was there all the time, just hiding in plain sight.)

  • @juneoeserserio2314
    @juneoeserserio2314 4 місяці тому +1

    Love to watch, this time I have a question: did you add the bamboo just for a contrasting color or did you add for strength in the yarn for socks? If for color: you nailed it but if you added it for strength you need to add so much more AND you need to run the batt through a few more times to actually blend.
    I have answered my question...lol...you added for just contrast!
    Having been a batt maker for YEARS..for fun, wholesale and retail...I would run the fibers 3 times, always 3 times just to get a smooth batt BUT for a sock blend I would run the batts through sometimes more than 3 times to truly get a well blended fiber-for example: 20% to
    25 % nylon mixed with whatever fiber: merino or dorset or polworth, a yway, whatever fiber I would blend the white nylon until I couldn't see the white fiber! It might take 4,5 times but to truly get a blend I had to keep running through the carder until it was really blended or the singles would spin up bumpy, lumpy and not blended to make a strong sock yarn...
    I know I am babbling here but to spend all the time to make a good three ply sock yarn for it only to get holes in the socks after 6 to 8 times wearing them...too much of a waste!!! I knit my socks on a 2.0 or 2.5mm, sometimes even smaller and to have a commercial yarn wear a hole after 3 or 4 times wearing...either my kids are very hard on their socks or the commercial yarn is for the birds, I would have said...full of shit but didn't want to offend...
    Sock yarn has to be strong or you will be mending them every other time they are worn and I just don't want to do that...
    I guess the other solution is to have so many pairs of socks that it takes a year to wear the same pair twice...lol...❤❤❤

  • @ChrisMusante
    @ChrisMusante Рік тому +2

    43:15 - what is with the mark on the side of the man's head in this photo?

  • @kidnplay3978
    @kidnplay3978 Рік тому +10

    Please do JK Rowling or L. Frank Baum next, pleaseeeeeeeee!!!

  • @DougGroothuis
    @DougGroothuis 4 місяці тому +3

    I watched "Beyond Narnia," hosted by A. N. Wilson, which is about C. S. Lewis. It makes several mistakes. The debate encounter Lewis had with Elizabeth Anscombe did not defeat Lewis as an apologist such that he only wrote fiction after that! This is a tendentious reading, and one corrected long ago by Victor Reppert in "C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea." Beverslius gives this take in his book, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion," as well, and it is wrong.
    The film also ends on a preposterous note, claiming that Lewis was not really an intellectual, but wrote and lived from the heart. If Lewis was not an intellectual, then the earth is flat and Kenny G is better than John Coltrane. What an absurd statement! Lewis was ten times the intellectual that A. N. Wilson is.
    The film would have benefitted from more interview time with Alister McGrath, who wrote the best biography of Lewis and who understands his theology and apologetics. Wilson is a piker.

  • @E-Kat
    @E-Kat 5 місяців тому +2

    I can see why he had abbreviated his name to C.S. Lewis from
    Clive Staples Lewis.

  • @E-Kat
    @E-Kat 5 місяців тому +2

    I'd like to watch this as I'm interested in C.S. Lewis but someone has left the music on when they were making this documentary! 👎

  • @familylove5412
    @familylove5412 5 місяців тому +4

    Wow

  • @JacindaChamplin-dk4ey
    @JacindaChamplin-dk4ey 5 місяців тому +1

    Jacinda 💜👍👍😊😊💞💞💞

  • @mbill1578
    @mbill1578 5 місяців тому +4

    Ahhhhh how privileged ....Oxford...what a dream

  • @尤七弓
    @尤七弓 4 місяці тому

    I'm very interested in the subject but the music makes me wanna run away 😢

  • @willowwobble
    @willowwobble 5 місяців тому +7

    Spoiled by the intrusive music.

    • @E-Kat
      @E-Kat 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes!! I chose a documentary about the topic I'm interested in but they ruined it by music I don't like!
      I could play my own music if I find I'm unable to absorb information without background music!!
      This is so crazy!!
      Good job it isn't a music video, as they'd be playing another music in the background!!
      People are so unbelievably backwards.

  • @joannaspivey566
    @joannaspivey566 5 місяців тому +3

  • @elizabethoconnor8005
    @elizabethoconnor8005 5 місяців тому +2

    Lovely but can't do the music sorry

  • @lynnebarnes3840
    @lynnebarnes3840 5 місяців тому +1

    What happened to the little boys, though???

  • @TJ-bu9zk
    @TJ-bu9zk 6 місяців тому +6

    jez, that home tour was so inauthentic. "he had a ______ LIKE this". Only one thing in the whole house, a typewriter, was actually his.

    • @valerieirvin249
      @valerieirvin249 6 місяців тому +2

      Agree, I had to skip over it. 🙄

    • @leecarlson9713
      @leecarlson9713 5 місяців тому +1

      That was because everything had been auctioned off, at the request of Warnie’s heir.

  • @marybaxter7460
    @marybaxter7460 5 місяців тому +3

    This could have been interesting BUT for the music! It’s very very distracting.!

  • @jennyblaine5052
    @jennyblaine5052 2 місяці тому +1

    Sorry, weird about Minto. Ick?

  • @GJ1607.
    @GJ1607. 2 місяці тому

    Is that the.minister of magic being interviewed

  • @SonjaMorrison-i7j
    @SonjaMorrison-i7j 4 місяці тому

    I regret ever reading these books.

  • @johnwebber609
    @johnwebber609 5 місяців тому +4

    Un-listenable to with that un-musical background; a real pity.

  • @williamparker1085
    @williamparker1085 3 місяці тому

    now thats a set of ears

  • @annaroehl3961
    @annaroehl3961 Місяць тому

    He must have been interesting to talk to

  • @stuckinlodi100
    @stuckinlodi100 2 місяці тому

    Tough crowd these commenters. Lewis revealed the Freudian absurdity of his very specific religious affectations. Depicting Yeshua as a poached egg
    was a tad excessive; although Hitchens used it as an opening argument.

  • @markjohn8472
    @markjohn8472 Рік тому +1

    This is just a reposting and rebranding of a video originally published about four years ago by a group called “absolute history“. Seems like a copyright violation to me.

  • @mbill1578
    @mbill1578 5 місяців тому +1

    Was he born rich

    • @valeriegilmour1086
      @valeriegilmour1086 5 місяців тому +2

      Not super rich, but certainly very comfortable. (It's always a question of comparison, isn;t it?) His father was a Belfast solicitor, and his grandfather a rector in the Church of Ireland. So pretty solidly middle class. The house his father built (Little Leas) is large , and there were a number of servants, which was not unusual at the time. Not mentioned here is his nurse, who was important in his ally life, and told Jack and his brother stories that were Irish folklore - less in the sense of being from, for example, the 'Ulster Cycle' (Cuchulain and so on); more simple stories of the working people. Jack and Warnie had ongoing tales they told each other, I believe. But in this production the main emphasis is not on the origins of his children's stories.

  • @adamstuart8768
    @adamstuart8768 2 місяці тому +1

    Religious propaganda no more nor less.

  • @20bluelilies
    @20bluelilies 5 місяців тому

    The one myth which is true. So much for erudite minds

  • @LaChicaconSuerte-1111
    @LaChicaconSuerte-1111 11 місяців тому +2

    Yes, his traumatic experiences caused him to retreat into a world of fantasy and also denial.

  • @josealmeida9492
    @josealmeida9492 Рік тому

    Pena que é em Inglês

  • @SpuktasticAudio
    @SpuktasticAudio 5 місяців тому +2

    Sorry, can't bear the insufferable old toff narrating.

  • @mypeeps1965
    @mypeeps1965 Рік тому +5

    CS LEWIS would be appalled by this crap!

    • @kidnplay3978
      @kidnplay3978 Рік тому +2

      What crap??? What happened?

    • @debbieellett9093
      @debbieellett9093 Рік тому +2

      ??

    • @annchovey2089
      @annchovey2089 Рік тому +6

      @@kidnplay3978For one thing, A.N. Wilson’s biography of Lewis contains about 60 errors and Wilson himself used to brag that he became an atheist from reading “Mere Christianity”. He supposedly has returned to the faith but I have yet to see an apology from him.

    • @TracySaunders-j3n
      @TracySaunders-j3n Рік тому +12

      What on earth do you mean? I have studied CS Lewis, his life and his books, for probably more years than you have been alive. This documentary is beautifully done. In particular, the insight into Jack's relationship with Minty Moore is one we rarely see. Was it a romantic relationship? We will never know. Personally I think it unlikely and that Jack replaced Paddy Moore and his own mother with this rather cantankerous woman, and saw her rather as the responsibility he would have taken on for his own mother once Albert passed. Marriage and children do not appear to be part of the life Jack saw for himself - at any time. He may have been a romantic, but romance was rather outside of his sphere of immediate needs or understandings. Jack Lewis was a man's man. And regardless of what Mr. Wilson says here, he was an intellectual to his fingertips.
      Of course his relationship with Joy was important, but at least here it doesn't assume the extreme raison d'être with which other biographers (and films) have allowed. Jack saw Joy as a fellow investigator of life. They were soulmates for sure; whether they were lovers is another matter. Lewis seemed to be quite good at what might be considered rather bizarre relationships.
      As a child, growing up as every new Narnia book was published - and oh how I wish I had them now - I learned my morals from those books: I learned about duty, and loyalty, and yes, about penalty and remorse.
      It would seem, @mypeeps 1965, that you have not realised any of those things.
      This excellent documentary brought back all the love and admiration I have always felt. Thank you enormously, A. N. Wilson for inviting me in.

    • @vivianstenseth9691
      @vivianstenseth9691 11 місяців тому +7

      Amen, amen and amen again

  • @Nancy-nb1ze
    @Nancy-nb1ze 5 місяців тому +2

    This guy needs better fitting dentures. They are actually clicking at the end of almost every sentence.

    • @Lalallalu
      @Lalallalu 5 місяців тому +3

      And that is all that you have to say in regard to this documentary?

  • @googlepigs7027
    @googlepigs7027 2 місяці тому

    "It just happens to be the one myth
    thats true...." -- my ass !