Welcome to Pints with Jack, season four, episode 12, the screw tape letters.

Letter 7, better the devil you know.

Welcome, everyone. Pints with Jack is your weekly CS Lewis podcast, where Matt, Andrew and I

break down and discuss the works of

of C.S. Lewis. This season, we're eavesdropping on the correspondence of a senior demon, Screw-Tape,

as he explains how to tempt the patient, a human assigned to be tempted by Scrutap's nephew, Wormwood.

Each week, we'll be considering a different letter, untwisting Screw-Tapes hellish logic, and forming a battle plan for our own spiritual lives.

And today, it's our first episode without Matt.

Matt, don't you miss us?

We don't miss you.

No, it's not true.

Not true.

How could you?

Oh, I'm a bad, bad man.

Before we get started, in Lewis News, around the time of recording this episode,

because we're recording this one a little bit in advance,

we're trying to build them all up before the new year,

so we get to have a little bit of a break over Christmas.

Narnia Webb have released their

70th anniversary video for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And in that, we spoke about

it in an earlier episode. Narnia fans from around the world are reading a section of that book.

And if you look very carefully, you might recognize a particularly good-looking Englishman featured among

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