Just announced last week, our friend Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis is a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award in Inklings Studies, given by the Mythopoeic Society, “a non-profit organization promoting the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythic literature through books and periodicals, annual conferences, discussion […]
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The Narnia Code Premieres on the BBC tonight
In just a few hours, the new documentary The Narnia Code, based on Michael Ward’s book Planet Narnia, will premiere on BBC1 television. The documentary is directed and produced by Norman Stone, who also directed and produced the films C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands and C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia For more information on the […]
A Visit to The Kilns and Oxford
Oxford has a way of getting under your skin-I’d been there for Oxbridge 2008, been there years earlier for conferences and such. Churches! Libraries! Bookstores! Spires! But every visit had been characterized by hurrying through Oxford: pushing along the crowded sidewalks, running from one conference session to another, busing en masse to see the sights, […]
BBC to Film A Documentary Based on Planet Narnia
The BBC is set to film a documentary based on Rev. Dr. Michael Ward’s recent book Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Ward, one of our former Wardens of C.S. Lewis’ home, “The Kilns,” and a seminar leader at Oxbridge 2008, will be working with director/producer Norman Stone, who was […]