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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast here on the BBC World Service with me Louise Hidalgo. In autumn 1950, the first book in the series The Chronicles

of Narnia by English author C.S. Lewis was published. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

would go on to become one of the great

classics of children's literature as would the other books that followed. I've been

talking to S. S. Lewis's stepson Douglas Gresham about his memories of the academic and author whom he knew

as Jack who wrote them.

He didn't enjoy writing quite a lot of his other works but he certainly enjoyed writing the Chronicles of Narnia.

He enjoyed the characters that he brought into those books.

He enjoyed the people of those books, the animals of those books. The animals of those books.

Douglas Gresham was eight years old

when he first met C.S. Lewis at the house near Oxford,

where Jack, as C.S. Lewis was known to his family and friends, lived with his older brother,

Warnie. It was 1953, and C.S. Lewis had just published his fourth Narnia book.

You not long arrived from America, had you your mother the poet Joy Gresham

brought you and your brother to Britain after your parents marriage collapsed and

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