After the previously-planned interview fell through at the last minute, David sat down to record a solo episode to talk about his newborn son, Sidecar Day, blue flowers in Narnia, and also to make his tongue-in-cheek case as to why C.S. Lewis is better than J.R.R. Tolkien.
As a Thursday bonus episode, here is the audio of my interview on the Talking Beasts podcast where Brian and I discussed the merits of Dr. Michael Ward’s Narnia Code.
S3E32: “Talking Beasts and the Narnia Code” (Download)
Each Season we discuss briefly one of the Chronicles of Narnia. In Season 1 we read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This Season, we’re reading Prince Caspian, as it was the second book to be published. In comparison to the previous book, Prince Caspian is less familiar to most people so we had to spend more time outlining the plot, so Matt and I ended up having to break up our discussion over two episodes.
In case you would like to jump to specific parts of the episode, click on the links below:
01:54 – Quote-of-the-week 03:16 – Drink-of-the-week 06:00 – Thematic overview 09:36 – Recap of previous book 10:09 – Begin discussion of Prince Caspian