Dr. Michael Dauphinais joins David for a half-pint to discuss the links between “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, and the book from this week’s “Jack’s Bookshelf”, Dante Aligeri’s “Divine Comedy”.
Today we kick off “Jack’s Bookshelf”, a series of episodes where we consider the authors and works which shaped the life of C.S. Lewis. Today we speak to returning guest, Dr. Jason Baxter, and begin with Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy.
David quizzes Matt and Andrew on toasts, they argue about the state of Malacandra, and cast actors for their movie.
David recently tracked down the audio for an operatic adaptation of Perelandra, the sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, and invited Professor Judith Wolfe and Professor John Marr onto the show to talk about it.
David and Marie had the opportunity to go to Chicago to watch “BareFace”, a ballet-adaptation of “Till We Have Faces”, produced by Ballet 5:8. Afterwards they sat down to share their thoughts…
We wrap up “Out of the Silent Planet” with a twist…
David chats with Jordan and Sean from the Lesser-Known Lewis podcast. They share their experience running a Lewis podcast, and also discuss Lewis’ essays about space travel.
Ransom, Weston, and Devine attempt the journey back to Earth.
Matt asks David a question and it goes in some surprising directions.
Weston explains his plan for Malacandra.