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The Inklings Variety Hour

The Inklings Variety Hour

Welcome to the Inklings Variety Hour, where fans and scholars of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and others discuss their works and lives.

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01:10:06

Exploding Lewis Myths with Harry Lee Poe (Becoming...

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/27

If you're enjoying the show, please do rate us on iTunes! Also, we'd love to hear from you at inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com. Hal Poe joins the show to discuss his comprehensive and very readable three-volume C.S. Lewis biography, Becoming C.S. Lewis, which you can find here. He talks about how he became interested in C.S. Lewis, the process of writing the biography, and a few of the assumptions about C.S. Lewis he's disproven. Among other things, we discuss: The importance of Lewis' childhood in

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01:01:59

Ruth Pitter, with Don W. King

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/20

Chris interviews Don W. King about Ruth Pitter, a superb and often-overlooked poet who was friends with Lewis and many of the other Inklings. Don also shares some of his exclusive recording of Pitter reading her poetry. Definitely worth hearing! If you're enjoying The Inklings Variety Hour, we have no way of knowing it unless you email us (inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com) or leave us a rating (and review) on iTunes. If we're a part of your life, we'd love to have you be a part of ours as well--let

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01:28:11

Aliens and C.S. Lewis (”Religion and Rocketry”), with...

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/13

As a kind of epilogue to Out of the Silent Planet, Chris talks with Jordan Duncan from Lesser-Known Lewis about C.S. Lewis' 1958 essay, "Religion and Rocketry," also published as "Will We Lose God in Outer Space?" You can find it collected in The World's Last Night and Other Essays. This is a wide-ranging conversation (we get a lot of mileage out of a comparatively short essay), and we cover everything from the question of aliens, to government conspiracies, to apologetics, to Richard Dawkins,

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01:20:28

Michael Drout: The Liberal Arts and Beowulf

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/08

Renowned Beowulf and Tolkien scholar Michael Drout joins me to talk about the two projects he is publishing through Signum University Press--How to Learn How to Think: What the Liberal Arts Are Good For, Anyway and The Beowulf Project. While not explicitly about Lewis or Tolkien, these subjects we cover this episode were near and dear to the heart of Lewis and Tolkien, as well as other members of the Inklings--many of whom were scholars. Find out more about Exploring Beowulf here: Exploring

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09:30

Rerun: Mythopoeia (Reading)

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/06

We should be back on Thursday to bring you an interview with Michael Drout. But until then, enjoy Tolkien's "Mythopoeia," read by Anika Smith in Season One! We'll have a conversation with Jordan Duncan on "Religion and Rocketry" pretty soon as well, but I wasn't able to complete it quite in time for Tuesday this week. Here's the old description for "Mythopoeia": This week, we have J.R.R. Tolkien's "Mythopoeia," read by Anika Smith! You can find the text of the poem online if you want to read along,

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44:54

Verlyn Flieger: A Waiter Made of Glass

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/06/01

Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger joins Chris to talk about her new book, A Waiter Made of Glass, a collection of short stories and poems recently published by Quickbeam Books, an imprint of Signum University Press. Topics covered include myth, grief, and the creative writing process. Go here to learn more about Signum University Press. We'll be back next week to talk with scholar Michael Drout about his forthcoming book on the liberal arts and ongoing Beowulf Project! I also plan to release a

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01:10:09

David C. Downing: Out of the Silent Planet, Part 4

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/30

If you're enjoying The Inklings Variety Hour, please consider giving us a review on Apple Podcasts. We'd also love to hear from you, so feel free to shoot us an email at Inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com. Additionally, we now have a Substack, so if you have thoughts on any of these episodes, we'd love to discuss them with you! The Inklings Variety Hour is pleased to welcome Dr. David C. Downing for our final episode discussing Out of the Silent Planet. David wrote the first serious scholarly book on

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55:56

The Flower of the Cedar, with Kay Ben-Avraham

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/25

Kay Ben-Avraham joins me to talk about her new (and still emerging) book, The Flower of the Cedar, which is about a dryad's journey to find her hearts in the time before human history. If you would like to find out more, to support Kay, or to help her shape this book, go to https://kaybenavraham.com/. Kay is the first of several writers for Signum University Press that I'll be interviewing this summer. Signum is unusual in that each of their authors has a "author's circle" for whom they write and

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01:21:49

Out of the Silent Planet, Part 3

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/23

We have a Substack page at inklingsvarietyhour.substack.com. Head there if you have comments to make about this or any episode! It may be desolate at first (I've not bothered to invite anyone as of this posting) but make a comment and subscribe--it shouldn't be too long before you hear back from someone else who wants to talk about Out of the Silent Planet. Also, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts! And do feel more than free to drop us a line at

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01:36:27

Out of the Silent Planet, Part 2

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/16

If you're enjoying this podcast, please rate it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts! Also, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com. Chris, Sophie, and Logan discuss Chapters 9-14 of Our of the Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis! More description to come!

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01:10:44

Out of the Silent Planet, Part 1

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/09

If you enjoy this podcast, please rate it on iTunes, or wherever in the world you get your podcasts! Please feel free to drop me a line at inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you. David Bates, Logan Huggins, and Sophia Burkhardt join Chris to talk about Out of the Silent Planet! This was recorded quite some time ago--shortly after the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but I wanted to space out my Lewis episodes (so to speak). Longer episode description (with links) to come, because I

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01:05:57

Rerun: Till We Have Faces, Part 1

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/05/02

Feeling nostalgic while running through the grading gauntlet, Chris dips back into what was probably the most widely-listened-to episode of the Inklings Variety Hour: the first of many, many, many episodes on Till We Have Faces. If you like it and want to hear the rest, just go back to Season 1 and binge away! It's good stuff. Next week, once my grades are in, we will be blasting off to Heaven with a new, 3- or 4-part series on C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet. In the meantime, here are the

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01:26:29

USSR LOTR (Khraniteli, 1991)

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/04/25

The Internet, like Sauron, just keeps on giving. Kora Burton and Jonathan Geltner join Chris to talk about one of its strangest and most recent Tolkien-related gifts, Khraniteli, a made-for-television production of The Fellowship of the Ring that aired in the final days of the USSR (1991) and was released by a kind soul onto YouTube 30 years later (2021). In this characteristically digressive episode, we start with some big thoughts about realism in cinema and fantasy, as well as whether

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01:24:33

Rerun: Is Narnia a Fairy Story? (2020)

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/04/18

Editing and releasing a podcast once a week is difficult. Editing a releasing a podcast once a week while grading end-of-term papers is...more difficult. So...enjoy this 2020 vintage from the vaults, where Chris, Anika, and Meagan weigh in on the (now-semi-)perennial question: Is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe a "Fairy Story" (as defined by Tolkien)? Their answer...will shock you. Probably. I don't really remember what it was, if I'm being honest. Anyway, enjoy this rough cut of Season 1

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01:24:38

Adapting Tolkien

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/04/11

Jonathan Geltner and Eric Geddes join Chris to talk about their favorite adaptations of Tolkien's Legendarium in this fairly self-indulgent and digressive conversation. Join us! More description to come! Sorry to publish this late! Do you have a favorite (or least favorite) Tolkien adaptation? Email us at inklingsvarietyhour@gmail.com and tell us about it. Next time: A full episode on the "Soviet Lord of the Rings"!

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01:23:10

The Inkwell Chronicles

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/04/04

J.D. Peabody has written a middle-grade novel that features the Inklings! We're accordingly interviewing him on The Inklings Variety Hour! Our conversation is about his book, The Inkwell Chronicles: The Ink of Elspet, which you can buy here. And here is the secret, "invisible" page that shows how the details in his plot are connected to real people in places in England. Among other things, J.D. and I talk about: the premise for his story (magical Ink that is the source of all creativity) the

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48:56

Charles Williams Q&A

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/03/28

Once again--there were problems with the original file. This should be corrected now. Please delete and redownload, and thank you for your patience! This week, the Inklings Variety Hour (that is, Chris) talks to Dr. Sørina Higgins about the life and thought of "the Oddest Inkling," Charles Williams. Among other things, we discuss: Taliessin Through Logres Williams' upbringing and education World War I Coinherence and Exchange Williams and Love Williams and Tolkien Williams and Gynecomorphical

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43:08

Absolute Music, with Jonathan Geltner

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/03/22

The second of a two-part conversation with author Jonathan Geltner--about his highly-acclaimed debut novel, Absolute Music--a literary novel about fantasy and faith, among other things. Among other things, we discuss: Mythologizing or reenchanting Cincinnati and Pittsburgh The Inklings, of course Music Art, order, and chaos D&D Campaigns in the Middle of a Realist Novel Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings If the Inklings were a D&D Party... If you'd like a copy of Absolute Music, go here. If you'd

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56:14

The Neverending Story

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/03/21

If this automatically downloaded and says it is 1 hour 30 minutes long, it is the wrong version of the episode. Delete the episode and redownload. Sorry for the inconvenience! (Or, if you're a hardcore fan, you're welcome for the exclusive, behind-the-scenes raw podcast.) Initially, an unedited version of this episode was uploaded. The newer version is a lot more fun to listen to. Inklings Variety Hour welcomes author Jonathan Geltner to the show to discuss The Neverending Story! Yes, The

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01:06:12

Dawn Treader, Part 2

The Inklings Variety Hour ·

2023/03/14

Episode description to come! It's late! (Sorry about some of the audio quality! I'm learning!--Chris)

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