This is the best of the Eric Metaxus show.

It's the show everyone's talking about, but they really should be listening to it.

Broadcasting from the Empire State Building, because the Chrysler building wasn't available.

This is the Eric Mataxis show.

Your host, Eric Mataxis.

Hey, I'm Eric Metaxus. Maybe you already knew that, but what you might not have known is that this week, I am actually

not at all in the Empire State Building, not even in New York. I'm across the pond. No, not in

New Jersey, in England. Yes, I'm in Oxford, England right now, doing a special

series of Socrates in the city events, that's Socrates in the city, and I wanted to share them

with you, my radio audience. So now let's listen in to the Socrates in the city event I did

yesterday, or it may have been the day before I'm getting confused with the jet lag, but very recently.

I hope you enjoy it.

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

Thank you.

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, not just because we're here in Oxford, but particularly because for me this is a dream

come true. For years, I have wanted to interview Walter Hooper, and I never wanted to interview

him just once. I want to interview him in a series, Nixon, David Frost's style, not quite,

but to really get, you don't get that reference,

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

about his life and about C.S. Lewis and Lewis's works, there's no one who can compare. So please,

Socrates in the city, welcome for Walter Hooper. Think back 51 years to a day when you could not get the great works of C.S. Lewis.

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