Hello everyone. I imagine that you were expecting to hear letters to an American lady today.

But unfortunately, our post-production is a little bit behind schedule. It will definitely be out on Thursday.

But rather than abandon you entirely, I thought I would share my interview with

Ruth Jackson on the CS Lois podcast. Now, this was released on their feed already, and it was

then split up into three episodes. So all I've done is I've stitched them all together,

so you can hear it just in one shot. And also stick around after the interview for

something a little special. But let's now kick things off with Ruth Jackson from the

C.S. Lewis Podcast.

The C.S. Lewis Podcast with Alastair McGrath.

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rating and reviewing it. But now for today's show. I am absolutely delighted to be joined by

David Bates, a Brit living in the US who is one of the hosts of the absolutely fantastic Pints with Jack podcast.

David, thank you so much for joining us again. Not at all. This is lovely. This is kicking off my advent season.

We're going to be talking about Christmas, but before we do that, the last time we had you on,

we were talking about the CS Lois Reading Day.

And I wondered whether you could just give us a little bit of a summary of some of the things

that went down, how you think it went from your perspective, because you were very much one

of the pioneers behind the inaugural CS Lewis Reading Day.

I thought it went really well.

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