This is neat – the BBC has made one of C.S. Lewis’s wartime radio addresses available online. This is apparently the only surviving one; the broadcasts were ultimately published as Mere Christianity. They also have a clip of him introducing The Great Divorce.
Via Christianity Today.
Many thanks. Blogged one of these as you’ve probably seen. The accent is interesting because it sounds phoney, which it probably was: a bad overlay of the posh Received Pronunciation of the time (which sounds exaggerated and unnatural to us), the old ‘Oxford accent’, on top of his native Irish pronunciation. If he’d lived today one wonders, besides if he would have remained Anglican, if he’d have kept his original accent, which people now tend to do. He would have had a voice but not a message like Ian Paisley! Or maybe Gloria Hunniford…
There’s been a lot of speculation on whether Lewis would be an Anglican today. Evangelicals have tried to claim him and so have Roman Catholics. In many ways his beliefs were definitely Catholic – on the sacraments, purgatory, the saints. But there must’ve been something strong that kept him from going over to Rome – especially with influences like Tolkien in his life. Maybe the Lewis biographers shed some light on this.
A Thinking Reed 
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