Monday 15 September, 7.30pm - on the Arts Channel
A.N. Wilson, author of a
revelatory biography of C.S. Lewis, goes in search of the man behind Narnia.
Best-selling children’s author and world famous Christian writer C.S. Lewis
spent his public life in the all-male world of Oxford colleges, but his private
life was veiled in secrecy.
Even his best friend J.R.R. Tolkien didn't know of
his marriage to an American divorcee late in life. Lewis died on the same day
as the assassination of J.F. Kennedy and few were at his burial; his alcoholic
brother was too drunk to tell people the time of the funeral.
This film
explores the turning points of Lewis’ life, the death of his mother, his
relationship with his friend’s mother ‘Mrs Moore’, his religious conversion,
the arrival and untimely death of his wife Joy Gresham. It is a moving and
insightful psychological portrait of a man who experienced fame in the public
arena but whose personal life was marked by the loss of three women he most
loved.
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