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With World War Two raging, the senior devil has some important advice to impart to his protege. Read by Simon Russell Beale. From November 2013.

Originally broadcast in 2013, in the week marking the fiftieth anniversary of CS Lewis's death, and which saw a memorial stone to the author unveiled in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Radio 4's Book of the Week marked the occasion with a reading of his famous letters from a senior to a junior devil.
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
A Jane Marshall production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 17 Oct 2018 02:45

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Simon Russell Beale
Producer Jane Marshall
Abridger Jane Marshall
Author CS Lewis

Broadcasts

  • Tue 19 Nov 2013 09:45
  • Wed 20 Nov 2013 00:30
  • Tue 16 Oct 2018 14:45
  • Wed 17 Oct 2018 02:45

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