Beyond Narnia: The Real Life Of C.S. Lewis | The Secret Lives and Loves of C.S. Lewis 

He is everything to me. I'm rereading the Chronicles of Narnia again as I do almost annually since the age of eight. I'm 65.

I teach 5th grade at an urban school in Louisiana. One of our novels was LWW. I can not tell you how this novel affected my students. When a student from the hood, who doesn’t want to read, picked up LWW and become engrossed with this book.

While I was studying Old Norse literature in Oxford during the Summer of 1988, I was a member of the C S Lewis Society, and we held a meeting at The Kilns. We cycled out there one weekend afternoon, and enjoyed sitting there in the sitting room, listening to a paper presented by a guest. I think this was arranged by a member of the Society who knew the caretaker of the House. Such a privilege.

Bless him and everyone that has glimpsed a bit of his genius.

A magnificent portrait of a remarkable man! A great production. I found it interesting how easily dismissed as a poet he is presented. He is, in fact a very good poet. Possible years ahead of what we now call poetry, with one exemption: like in his Narnia and science fiction books, his poems are backed by and packed with centuries of the wisdom he collected in his head and in his heart. It may be time to give his poetry another go. To read it as he meant it to be read. With profound understanding. Dymer would rest in better peace if we did. Thank you for sharing this wonderful insight into my favourite writer. Greetings from Australia.

Thanks so much for posting this excellent documentary💚

How delightful so very well done and how lovely to hear Robert Hardy one of my favorite actors.

C.S. Lewis a hero of faith, had his moments. And left a legacy of love for each of us. As a Jew come to Messiah of Isaiah 53 in my best friend and savior I do so appreciate Him and His writings. amen ty for the share....best to all friends.

You should invest in the Narnia books and read them. I think Narnia is heaven! I was about 85 or so when I bought the set at a garage sale, but before giving them to my great grandchildren I had to read them to make sure they were something I wanted them to read.I am 82 and this year I bought myself a set. Very easy to read, give them a try! 😘 Grannie Lou

As an historian, a tutor and writer and a Judea-Christian, this poignant doc gutted me thoroughly and made me so bloody grateful that this man’s work was part of my upbringing. Thank u mom & dad. Os quiero tanto

C. S. Lewis who was one of the great men of this era, who I enjoyed reading about many years back. Now that I’ve listened to this wonderful documentary I can see how he also suffered from great loss as some of us have suffered. Thank you for sharing this documentary about him. 👍

Grew up surrounded by books....son of a wealthy lawyer...and a loving brother..... how wonderful

This was wonderfully presented. I hadn't intended to watch it in one sitting but was shocked to find that at midnight, it was over.

I actually love Lewis' short poetry. Some of it is so moving I cannot read it aloud without choking up.

My PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN LIFE IS, SOMETIMES We Have to LOOSE ourself to FIND OUR SELF.❤

Really enjoyed watching this, Thank you

CS Lewis my fellow Ulsterman and Christian brother. One of Our True Greats. He is up there with Robert Blair Mayne amongst my countries absolute Best.

I thank God for the privilege of getting to know a little more about this almost mystical man, a most convert who became a champion of God! All glory be to God!

Thank you for the real story!

Wonderful documentary, should have been a series.

My teacher read us Lion , Witch and the Wardrobe to us when we were in junior school about 8/9 yrars old 1969-70 . Great escapism.

Thank you for sharing this with us. I am very grateful.🌞

I never could read very well... and have read only a handful of books (less than 10) cover to cover. Oddly, I can write like the wind... and it's kind of you to present this work - these folks are people we should know - as 'real people'.

I very much appreciated this. Thanku

Hooray for AN Wilson !

EXCELLENT ! A.N. WILSON. GREAT STORY OF C.S. LEWIS. MANY THANKS FROM, U.K. (2023).

Thank you so much for this excellent documentary on the great C.S.Lewis, I've never eead Narnia but loved deeply his Medieval books.

C.S. Lewis is one of my all-time favorite suthors. But, my love of him is not so much for his novels as his Christian writing. A highly intelligent and commonsensical approach. I read them over and over and over again.

This world is almost gone. We should treasure it, those of us who still can. Soon, this will be purely history, the last human connections gone.

And, interestingly, Aslan, the name of the lion in the Narnia books, is the Turkish word for lion. Although I am not Turkish, Turkish was my first language.

Wonderful film, thank you so much

I am so very glad I found this channel. I have always had an infinity for the marvelous man. Very well researched and presented!

this was such a great story .Bless you all .

Very well done biography! Thank you!

Excellent! What a wonderful documentary!

Time Magazine referred to 22 November 1963 as "The Day The Giants Fell". I wish, today and for the rest of my life, that I had kept and cherished that edition.

I thought this was an excellent work, well researched and presented, thank you.

Excellent 😊❤

Thanks from old New Orleans 😇

Very inspirational and challenging

One of my favorite authors.

Deep thanks to A.N.Wilson for a wonderful telling of this story.

Other than the NARNIA series, my favorite works by C S Lewis are THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS and A GRIEF OBSERVED.

My son did learn to read on the story at the age of 13 splendidly

Lovely to see Robert Hardy being interviewed,my favourite book as a child,The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,great documentary of his life.

☆Deeply touching documentary.☆

I've enjoyed this documentary!

BEAUTIFUL.

PTL for CS Lewis

My favorites are his Christian apologist books. Absolutely the best.

Yep! Good programme tho' not a big fan of Wilson's book. But Alistair McGrath's is "unputdownable" as is the latest one by Harry Lee Poe... 3 volumes & quite superb. (Lee Poe has been interviewed several times & is fascinating listening. Jack & Warren were only sent to schools in England to get rid of their Irish accents. Seriously! Further, Jack drank just as much as his brother---he just didn't go in for "binges"!) But Poe's emphasis on Lewis' love of the "The Hero's Journey" motif in myth & legend was such an eye-opener for me. Guess it was there all the time, just hiding in plain sight.)

Wow

Please do JK Rowling or L. Frank Baum next, pleaseeeeeeeee!!!

jez, that home tour was so inauthentic. "he had a ______ LIKE this". Only one thing in the whole house, a typewriter, was actually his.

Spoiled by the intrusive music.

I'd like to watch this as I'm interested in C.S. Lewis but someone has left the music on when they were making this documentary! 👎

Ahhhhh how privileged ....Oxford...what a dream

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I'm very interested in the subject but the music makes me wanna run away 😢

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Love to watch, this time I have a question: did you add the bamboo just for a contrasting color or did you add for strength in the yarn for socks? If for color: you nailed it but if you added it for strength you need to add so much more AND you need to run the batt through a few more times to actually blend. I have answered my question...lol...you added for just contrast! Having been a batt maker for YEARS..for fun, wholesale and retail...I would run the fibers 3 times, always 3 times just to get a smooth batt BUT for a sock blend I would run the batts through sometimes more than 3 times to truly get a well blended fiber-for example: 20% to 25 % nylon mixed with whatever fiber: merino or dorset or polworth, a yway, whatever fiber I would blend the white nylon until I couldn't see the white fiber! It might take 4,5 times but to truly get a blend I had to keep running through the carder until it was really blended or the singles would spin up bumpy, lumpy and not blended to make a strong sock yarn... I know I am babbling here but to spend all the time to make a good three ply sock yarn for it only to get holes in the socks after 6 to 8 times wearing them...too much of a waste!!! I knit my socks on a 2.0 or 2.5mm, sometimes even smaller and to have a commercial yarn wear a hole after 3 or 4 times wearing...either my kids are very hard on their socks or the commercial yarn is for the birds, I would have said...full of shit but didn't want to offend... Sock yarn has to be strong or you will be mending them every other time they are worn and I just don't want to do that... I guess the other solution is to have so many pairs of socks that it takes a year to wear the same pair twice...lol...❤❤❤

Lovely but can't do the music sorry

This could have been interesting BUT for the music! It’s very very distracting.!

I watched "Beyond Narnia," hosted by A. N. Wilson, which is about C. S. Lewis. It makes several mistakes. The debate encounter Lewis had with Elizabeth Anscombe did not defeat Lewis as an apologist such that he only wrote fiction after that! This is a tendentious reading, and one corrected long ago by Victor Reppert in "C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea." Beverslius gives this take in his book, C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion," as well, and it is wrong. The film also ends on a preposterous note, claiming that Lewis was not really an intellectual, but wrote and lived from the heart. If Lewis was not an intellectual, then the earth is flat and Kenny G is better than John Coltrane. What an absurd statement! Lewis was ten times the intellectual that A. N. Wilson is. The film would have benefitted from more interview time with Alister McGrath, who wrote the best biography of Lewis and who understands his theology and apologetics. Wilson is a piker.

What happened to the little boys, though???

now thats a set of ears

43:15 - what is with the mark on the side of the man's head in this photo?

I regret ever reading these books.

Un-listenable to with that un-musical background; a real pity.

I can see why he had abbreviated his name to C.S. Lewis from Clive Staples Lewis.

This is just a reposting and rebranding of a video originally published about four years ago by a group called “absolute history“. Seems like a copyright violation to me.

Was he born rich

Sorry, can't bear the insufferable old toff narrating.

The one myth which is true. So much for erudite minds

Yes, his traumatic experiences caused him to retreat into a world of fantasy and also denial.

Pena que é em Inglês

CS LEWIS would be appalled by this crap!

This guy needs better fitting dentures. They are actually clicking at the end of almost every sentence.