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The Eric Metaxas Show

Walter Hooper (continued)

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Eric wraps up his extensive, in-depth interview with Walter Hooper in Oxford, England, for Socrates in the City. Hooper is an author, editor, and trustee of the literary estate of C.S. Lewis.

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0:00.0

Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals.

0:04.1

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0:06.8

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0:09.7

That's legacy p.m. Investments.com. Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

0:28.1

I'm in Oxford, England right now doing a special series of Socrates in the city events.

0:34.2

That's Socrates in the city.

0:35.9

And I wanted to share them with you, my radio audience.

0:39.8

So now let's listen in to the Socrates in the city event I did yesterday, or it may have been

0:46.7

the day before I'm getting confused with the jet lag, but very recently.

0:51.0

I hope you enjoy it.

0:52.6

Pip, pip, cheerio, and so on and so forth. Thank you.

0:58.8

Welcome to Socrates in the city, Oxford Edition. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. I am, thank you. I cannot tell you how excited I am about this,

1:15.2

not just because we're here in Oxford,

1:16.6

but particularly because for me this is a dream come true.

1:20.3

For years, I have wanted to interview Walter Hooper,

1:25.5

and I never wanted to interview him just once. I want to interview him in a series,

1:31.6

Nixon, David Frost's style, not quite, but to really get, you don't get that reference,

1:37.1

you're all kids, to really get into some depth because he has such a wealth of information to

1:42.8

share about his life and about C.S. Lewis and Lewis's works.

1:47.5

There's no one who can compare. So please, Socrates in the city, welcome for Walter Hooper.

2:07.9

It's in all of his fiction. It's in all of his fiction, this idea of embodying nobility,

2:11.1

embodying vulgarity and baseness,

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