Prince Caspian (Part 2: Bears and Bacchanals!)

(I am releasing this episode again, just in case your podcatcher is being stubborn and refuses to yield the raw episode I inadvertently uploaded this morning--Chris)

As he discusses the second part of Prince Caspian the second book in the Chronicles of Narnia, Chris is joined by three special guests:

• Logan Huggins, our producer (who did yet another amazing job with this episode)
• Mez Blume, author of Churchill's S.O.C.K.s and several other excellent books
• Sophie Burkhardt, from the podcast Beneath the Willow Tree

(Apologies to our listeners--and Logan--for uploading the unedited version at first this morning!  That is entirely my fault, and I promise you will enjoy this one more--Chris)

Join us as we discuss Lewis' occasionally awkward but profound Narnian novel.  Among other things, we talk about:

• What stars and trees have in common
• Becoming a beast and George MacDonald's The Princess and Curdie
• Re-enchantment of (and human rule over) nature
• Aslan's Socratic rebukes
• Aslan's breath as the "ruach" that moves the trees
• Growing up without "growing up"
• Lewis on chivalry
• Play as the possible redemption of Susan
• Aslan and the gods
• Tolkien and Lewis as Lego Masters and Narnia as a grafted world

As always, if you have questions and contributions, feel free to email us at InklingsVarietyHour@gmail.com.  We'd love to hear from you.

For the view that the Bacchic "romp" is a response to Tolkien, see Joe R. Christopher, "J.R.R. Tolkien: Narnian Exile," in Mythlore 55(Autumn 1988), pp. 41-42. 

To hear Sophie Burkhardt's podcast (which has lots of MacDonald and Chesterton), go here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beneath-the-willow-tree/id1574579754

To check out Mez Blume's books, go here: https://mezblume.com/

 

Stay tuned next week for our final Prince Caspian podcast!