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Free Thinking: Narnia and CS Lewis

Narnia and CS Lewis

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Exploring the literary and theological terrain of C.S. Lewis's Narnia

Chris Harding hears about the film Freud's Last Session and the psychoanalysts fictional encounter with C. S. Lewis

Sixty years after the death of C. S. Lewis's, his best known work, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is still for many a childhood favourite and it's also the subject of a new literary study. Christianity was central to all of Lewis's his novels, his academic writing and generalist non-fiction. It is also his Christianity that divides his admirers and detractors. This tension lies at the heart of a new film which stages a clash between two ways of thinking, the psychoanalytic and the religious. Freud’s Last Session imagines an encounter between Lewis and Freud exploring the clash between their views of human nature and faith. Chris Harding and guests examine how we're still wrestling with the belief and the imagination of C.S. Lewis today.  

Meg Thomson is the producer of Freud’s Last Session, starring Anthony Hopkins as Freud and Matthew Goode as Lewis 

Jem Bloomfield is an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham and the the author of a new, literary exploration of Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Ruth Jackson is co-host of the C.S. Lewis podcast and a producer at Premier Unbelievable Christian Radio. 

Justin Brierley is a writer and broadcaster, his latest book is The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God.

Producer: Ruth Watts

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