May 21st, 2007
Radio Theatre: The Chronicles of Narnia
Over the last several weeks, Jenni and I listened to The Chronicles of Narnia (Amazon.com | Wikipedia), another first-class presentation by Focus on the Family Radio Theatre. (Cf. my previous posts on The Life of Jesus: Dramatic Eyewitness Accounts from the Luke Reports and Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Freedom.) Since purchasing the Narnia CDs about one year ago, this was our second time listening to this excellent twenty-two hour production (157 tracks on 19 CDs). (No, we’re not bored. We took some road trips and had some downtime with some illnesses.) It definitely beats TV.
On a related note, Kevin Bauder’s series “The Christian and Fantasy Literature” (2005) is well worth reading (or rereading if it’s been a while). See esp. the sixth essay.
1. Definitions and Questions
2. Evaluating Fantastic Writing
3. Magic in Fantasy
4. Pilgrim’s Progress
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Chronicles of Narnia
7. The Harry Potter Books
