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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... Thank you.

I cannot tell you how excited I am about this,

because for me this is a dream come true.

For years, I have wanted to interview Walter Hooper.

And it's taken me this long.

I apologize, Walter, but we're finally here in Oxford to do this.

Walter Hooper, in case you don't know who he is, was in 1963 the secretary to C.S. Lewis.

Spent time living with Lewis, working with him, and soon thereafter, when Lewis died on the same day that, the same hour that President Kennedy died,

Walter Hooper took on the huge, immeasurable task of doing all that needed to be done to sort of secure his literary legacy to republish works that had fallen out of print

and really to edit his work for decades it's been now. It's just gigantic. It's a lifelong

devotion. It seems to me a calling. And for me, it's a tremendous privilege to get this time

with Walter Hooper. So please Socrates in the city,

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