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Witness History: CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

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CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

BBC World Service - Witness History, CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950

The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950. CS Lewis's stepson remembers the man who created this classic of children's literature.

The first book in the Chronicles of Narnia series by the Northern Irish-born writer CS Lewis was published in autumn 1950. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe would go on to become one of the great classics of children's literature. CS Lewis's stepson, Douglas Gresham, talks to Louise Hidalgo about the academic and theologian who created Narnia's magical world.

Picture: CS Lewis, the children's and theological author, seated in his Cambridge study in the early 1950s (Credit: Camera Press/Arthur Strong)

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