Pints with Jack, season two, episode 10, after hours with Joseph Pearce.

Hello, and welcome to Pints with Jack. Today, I interrupt our journey through The Great

Divorce to bring onto the show a guest that I wanted to talk to for a long, long time.

Joseph Pierce is the director of book publishing at the Augustine Institute.

He's the editor of the St. Austin Review, and he's series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions.

You can listen to him on the Faith and Culture podcast, and he is the author of a colossal number of books, which include his own autobiography,

Race with the Devil, Tolkien, Man and Myth, Wisdom and Innocence, A Life of J.K. Chesterton,

further up and further in, understanding Narnia, the unmasking of Oscar Wilde, and many, many others.

Joseph Pierce, welcome to Pints with Jack. It's good to be with you on Pints

with Jack. I wish we were literally having Pints with Jack. That would be marvelous.

Well, it's afternoon for you, so I think that should be allowed. I'm English. It's five o'clock

in England. And happy birthday. Thank you, yes.

If you can't have a drink, then when can you?

Precisely, precisely.

Now, listeners will notice that, like myself, you also have an accent,

and the perceptive among them will realize that you also hail from the greatest country in the world.

By which you mean England, they're not Britain, because there's a big difference as far as I'm

concerned.

Well, Lewis himself said only foreigners talk about Britain.

Absolutely.

It was a novel concept that came about at the same time as the Protestant Reformation,

but that's another discussion.

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