Monday, February 16, 2015

C. S. Lewis BBC Broadcast 21 March 1944

From Jesse's cafe:

During the height of World War II, the BBC carried a series of radio broadcasts by C. S. 'Jack' Lewis, the Oxford don and good friend of fellow author J. R. R. Tolkien.

The broadcasts, which were immensely popular, were later gathered into a book, titled Mere Christianity.

Mere Christianity is a book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944. The transcripts originally appeared as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944).

Below is the broadcast titled Beyond Personality, and it is the only surviving recording which we have. All the tapes of the other broadcasts were reused during the war effort.

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