An Evening with C.S. Lewis

This one-man show by David Payne gives a good feel for C.S. Lewis as a man and as a thinker.

The setting is 1963 (the last year of Lewis's life), with Lewis addressing in his home a group of writers from America. It's an hour and a half in length:

If you've never heard C.S. Lewis himself speak and are interested, here are some free samples online.

The first two are from the BBC:

Beyond Personality: The New Men (14:05 mins)

March 21, 1944

Length: 14:05

(This talk later became a part of Mere Christianity.)

An Introduction to The Great Divorce

Date: May 9, 1948

Length of clip: 1:58

On this site you can hear a few samples from his lectures on The Four Loves:


Introduction (0:29)


"Agape Love" (0:20)


"Is Creation Necessary?" (0:35)

You can also order The C.S. Lewis Recordings, which contains the following material:

The Four Loves – In this rare recording of C.S. Lewis' own voice, Lewis examines the four classical Greek terms for love: storge, philia, eros and agape. Recorded in 1958 in London by the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation, it was first heard in the United States on the Episcopal Series of the Protestant Hour radio program, now known as Day1.

C.S. Lewis Speaks His Mind – This rare recording contains Lewis' lecture on Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis' adaptation of his famous Cambridge lecture known as "The Great Divide," his introduction to his book The Great Divorce, and his critique of works by author Charles Williams.