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Thinking Fellows

The Silver Chair

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8871 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Thinking Fellows comment on the fourth book in the Chronicles of Narnia. When they were first published, this was the first book in the series to not feature the Pevensie children. While some consider the Silver Chair strange, it presents a colorful expansion of the world of Narnia.

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0:00.0

Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.

0:22.4

My name is Caleb, and today I'm joined by my father, Dr. Scott Keith, and by Dr. Adam Francisco

0:27.2

to continue our series where we are reading through the Chronicles of Narnia.

0:33.9

For our purposes, we read what was originally written as book five this week,

0:40.5

which is the silver chair, which immediately follow, well, immediately, it roughly immediately

0:47.2

follows the events of Prince Caspian. It was like the, the next major event in Narnia's history

0:52.6

after. Yeah, they make a reference to it being 70 years after the Don Treter.

0:59.1

After the Don Treter.

1:00.3

So it actually does pick up.

1:04.0

And it's the first of this, I mean, it's a story without the Pevency children as well, which is a also was very interesting, re-reading with that sort of...

1:17.5

Total shift.

1:18.4

Total shift.

1:19.3

New characters in Narnia.

1:22.1

Yeah.

1:22.8

With the next three books, essentially, you're going to get that.

1:25.4

Yeah.

1:26.0

So he's sort of gone beyond those initial tales and expanded into there.

1:33.2

So before we go on commenting and reading through, just want to remind everybody that

1:39.0

the Thinking Fellows is part of the 1517 podcast network of shows.

1:42.4

You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all of our

1:47.0

shows there. We, uh, we have a lot more than podcasts at 1517, though I think, uh,

1:55.2

podcasts are maybe the best thing we do. Uh, I'm a little biased. We certainly have a few of them. But we certainly have a few

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