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#71 CS Lewis and the Queen - an interview with Dr Michael Ward

The C.S. Lewis podcast

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Your book planet Narnia was inspired by one of C.S. Lewis's poems about the planets. According to medieval thought, Jupiter had these influences that it shared upon the earth and they related largely to kingship. And also the lion, the witch and the wardrobe is above all, even more than the other six Narnia Chronicles concerned with kingship. That tune derives from Gustav Holst's own musical interpretation of the jovial, of the Jupiter spirit.

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