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Book of the Week: CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters

Simon Russell Beale

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CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters

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Screwtape congratulates the junior devil on his progress, but advises caution.

An optimistic senior devil congratulates his protege on his progress. But caution is advised. Read by Simon Russell Beale. From November 2013.

Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil. 
Read by Simon Russell Beale 
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. 
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.

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By CS Lewis. Satirical correspondence between a senior devil and his junior apprentice

CS Lewis's renowned satirical correspondence between a senior devil and his junior apprentice. Read by Simon Russell Beale

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