The Unexplored C.S. Lewis:

New Thoughts and Directions in Lewis Studies

A lecture by Dr. Christopher Mitchell, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center
Sponsored by the Arizona C.S. Lewis Society

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Scottsdale Presbyterian Church
3421 N. Hayden Rd. (NE corner of Hayden and Osborne)
Scottsdale, Arizona 85251

7:30 p.m., Free and open to the public

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN © Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Walden Media LLC. All Rights Reserved Photo: MURRAY CLOSE The characters of C.S. Lewis’ timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of “The Chronicles of Narnia,” starring (left to right): Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Ben Barnes, Anna Popplewell and Skandar Keynes.

The Arizona C.S. Lewis Society will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Christopher Mitchell entitled, “The Unexplored C.S. Lewis: New Thoughts and Directions in Lewis” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 4 at Scottsdale Presbyterian Church, 3421 N. Hayden Road. Dr. Mitchell is the director of the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois which preserves the manuscripts of seven British authors: Owen Barfield, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams.  The visit of Dr. Mitchell to Arizona is in conjunction with the June opening of The Chronicle of Narnia: The Exhibition at the Arizona Science Center. For more information, please call 480-946-4207.

Listen to C.S. Lewis

This is the only surviving footage of C.S. Lewis's broadcast talks. The New Men is the last episode in Beyond Personality, the third series. It was broadcast on BBC radio on 21st March 1944.

The transcripts of all three series were published as Mere Christianity.

"Blake wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. If I've written of their divorce, this is not because I think myself a fit antagonist for so great a genius, nor even because I feel at all sure that I knew what he meant..."

C.S. Lewis introduces his book The Great Divorce in a clip first broadcast on 9th May 1948.