The narrator is as warm and casual as can be, quite wonderful really. There are gems of revelation in this short documentary. Thank you very very much for sharing!
@inkyguy3 жыл бұрын
It’s an interesting perception. I can imagine people who would be so put off by his accent and affect that they wouldn’t even bother to watch the program, which would, of course, be their own self-imposed loss.
@SecretSquirrelFun2 жыл бұрын
I’m a big fan of Andrew Wilson, such a great biographer.
@MsStack422 жыл бұрын
@@SecretSquirrelFun Me too ! I find him very quirky and charming !
@TheTsar1918 Жыл бұрын
Indeed. But I couldn’t help notice that he looks so uncomfortable when he’s sitting and chatting with folks.
@Psalm--uu7mh2 жыл бұрын
Some of us are adults, who still love the wonderful world of fantasy, especially those stories from C.S. Lewis and J. R. Tolkien!❤️
@sierrastanley31096 жыл бұрын
I watched the whole thing and I must say that I love C.S.Lewis all over again.
@saskoilersfan3 жыл бұрын
Your gonna hate me after the Kennedy Oz enigmas ..
@casperdog7776 жыл бұрын
excellent documentary - one of the best recent documentaries on Lewis. Honest and insightful. 10 out of 10 from me.
@saskoilersfan3 жыл бұрын
Wow ..remind me to never ask you for input ...
@josuegarcias.90416 жыл бұрын
C. S. Lewis has been my favorite author since I was a kid. Thank you for doing this documentary, really enjoyed it.
@peterplotts12382 жыл бұрын
I didn't know anything about Lewis until I was nearly thirty and introduced to him by my new wife and then again by a non-believer who recommended what became perhaps my favorite book: "The Great Divorce". When I began to read him for the first time I was confronted by and began to understand what Christianity was all about and I have never looked back.
@eliotreader82202 жыл бұрын
so he used his memories from the Trenches of WW1 as references to the battles that take place in the stories?
@paulharvey2396 Жыл бұрын
Thank you A. N. Wilson for this moving sensitive presentation it has inspired me to read his work thank you, God bless you amen
@johnpaul54746 жыл бұрын
Once or twice the music was too loud, but I found this documentary an excellent brief introduction to Lewis.
@Char......6 жыл бұрын
The music goes well with the story and I can tell the commentator is very enthusiastic and genuinely interested in what he's talking about. Maybe turn the music down a bit just so people will stop whining.
@charlesdavis70876 жыл бұрын
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This bio. of CS Lewis is excellent. However, the sound quality needs to be correct immediately.
@chronicstitcher79336 жыл бұрын
Mere Christianity. A truly great work.
@elky3605 жыл бұрын
What a bitter ending for someone who touched so many people's lives.
@piratetanker6 жыл бұрын
Personally, I find the audio to be just fine, and the presenter very apt to the subject. I rather wish this explored more into the personal/professional relationship between Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien.
@jansumi6 жыл бұрын
A new play about that was done in Vancouver recently. Would've liked a bit more info on Lewis in it - worth tweaking & developing for future - but immensely enjoyable. Here's the search page for reviews etc: www.google.com/search?q=Lewis+Tolkien+%22pacific+theatre%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
@evelynbaron20046 жыл бұрын
The Inklings are very well documented indeed. They all had Christian convictions and feelings about imminence and mystical experiences but they were who they were at the time; tweedy guys smoking pipes, more academics than anything one can postulate as exotic or esoteric. Tolkien, the lover of Scandinavian lore, was bound to write as he did, as did the other two. C.S. Lewis had no other professional relationship with Tolkien. Oxbridge is like that. It`s where I was educated.
@EveWilliamsMusic4 жыл бұрын
In defence of Lewis' poetry. 'What the Bird Said Early in the Year' is very beautiful.
@btsplaylist39116 ай бұрын
i was just starting to read his works out of curiosity. This really gives a glimpse of background for some of his famous books, so thank you for this meaningful documentary ❤️
@egparis186 жыл бұрын
Once again, it's impossible most of the time to hear the commentary above the music. The rest of the time the commentary comes up very very loud. Can't you do anything about this?
@hannahbe82625 жыл бұрын
There's a better upload of this doc (with something like the original sound mix) on Daily Motion
@TJ-mm8fx4 жыл бұрын
Hannah BE Thank you!!
@roelfjanwentholt5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful documentary.
@Wopenga2 жыл бұрын
An excellent documentary, except that many parts of it are spoiled by music so loud that Andrew Wilson has to shout to make himself heard and at times his words are completely lost.
@PeaceOfGrace2 жыл бұрын
I agree, because I had to focus my hearing, in a few spots…I am also getting older.
@mygreenfroggy6 жыл бұрын
This is a good video, but the sound is seriously uneven. I kept having to turn the sound up and down.
@smm2756 жыл бұрын
Ruth Beaty Yes. Experiencing the same, sadly.
@stevenwiederholt70006 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@TheGonnabesomebody3 жыл бұрын
Same
@yowwwwie6 жыл бұрын
I think that Jack Lewis was a far more complicated soul than anyone can explain in an hour. Y
@saskoilersfan3 жыл бұрын
Jack ....you get it ? All the jacks ? Four of a kind in JFK... Jack Kennedy ) Jackie Kennedy , jack Ruby , jack of diamonds, The best and foremost lie in JFK is jack ...his name was john.
@portuguese-translator6 жыл бұрын
A fascinating documentary that I am saving to watch again sometime soon. Can't understand the complains about the sound. The whole video sounds great to me. Love it.
@PS-xf3me2 жыл бұрын
As someone who mixes and masters audio: the sound is awful. The different recording locations are not balanced and the music is louder than narrater during any studio-recorded (or at least, non-interview, I don't know where they recorded) audio bits. It's a shame really, since the information presented is much grander than the production. The issues the audio causes will be more prominent for people with headphones or good audio monitors. If you are on a phone, laptop or even TV it won't matter as much.
@Bonnenouvellesjonny6 жыл бұрын
An odd comment I know but the music selection and audio mixing in this documentary is absolutely awful.
@evelynbaron20046 жыл бұрын
Not an odd comment at all. It`s so disappointing but eventually one does give up. I confess I recently watched another Timeline production about Lewis Carroll and found it shallow and disappointing. When I was vr young I thought the Narnia books were a kind of history to which I didn`t have the key. Later I understood and regretted that our Gerald Durrell like household would not produce a single talking beast. I`m grateful for this attempt to adapt this profoundly complex man`s life into a tv series, but it`s doomed. I think as a Christian apologist he enjoyed vr much the debate with his equally celebrated adversaries. I thought he was the supreme English Renaissance scholar and an ostensible series of books for children is strewn with the most extraordinary and erudite references. I think the Harry Potter series has the same arc in its over-arching narrative. Terrible pun aside, I remember really enjoying every thing he wrote critically; his essays were always stimulating. I don`t think he wanted everyone to agree with him; I always thought of him as a divided man. He was constantly searching for what he called Joy, a kind of mystical experience that his prodigious intellect couldn`t account for. And therein lies the mystery of CS Lewis, I suppose. His brother was indeed an alcoholic, as am I and many other people; I was so lucky to seize the moment to stop. But having a sister whom I`ve reclaimed, I`m so deeply moved by Lewis` unswerving loyalty to his brother, shell-shocked and home from war with a monkey on his back. I know he was characterized as uneasy around women, indeed outside his ivory tower, possibly true. My favorite prof, Northrop Frye used to lecture half the time with his back turned to the auditorium. But if you had a really good and pressing question he was extraordinarily present. Sorry for rabbiting on, tx for posting Bonnenouvellesjonny. Salut, merci bien!
@hannahbe82625 жыл бұрын
There's a better upload of this doc (with something like the original sound mix) on Daily Motion
@pamelamyers96134 жыл бұрын
I agree. It is horrid--the worst I have ever heard.
@squirehaggard47493 жыл бұрын
@@hannahbe8262 Thank you. I just looked, and yes, it is much easier to listen too.
@saskoilersfan3 жыл бұрын
I agree ..
@drusilladelp51626 жыл бұрын
I have no problem with audio at all. This is a fascinating piece.
@damonwilliams78994 жыл бұрын
An enjoyable and insightful documentary.The programme makers even went to the trouble of using a vintage 1950s bus on the correct route that Lewis would have taken up Headington Hill to his home.
@inkyguy3 жыл бұрын
Trust the Brits to treat historic topics and incidents as accurately as they can.
@jessicasparkle6 жыл бұрын
Why is the music so damn loud?
@judyannstreich74996 жыл бұрын
Sound editing, people-----please.
@hannahbe82625 жыл бұрын
There's a better upload of this doc (with something like the original sound mix) on Daily Motion
@lauren44344 жыл бұрын
it was terribly distracting.......
@anthonykent93876 жыл бұрын
Captivating! Thank you!
@inkyguy3 жыл бұрын
The irony is, of course, that many of the churches that preach the orthodoxy that Lewis advocated wouldn’t allow him to be a member were C.S. Lewis to apply today.
@seanmoran65102 жыл бұрын
I’d agree with that
@eliotreader82202 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise how much of his memories from his boy hood left their mark. never realised how much his time in the trenches during WW1 influenced the battles that take place in the books. especially the darkness of the White queen' court yard.
@shubbagin496 жыл бұрын
He was taken early by the Fairies,a legend of a story teller, forever looking.
@pepehaydn70392 жыл бұрын
One of the happiest days in my life, when I visited Wolvercote cementery and Eagle and Child.
@sebastianverney7851 Жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary, with little for your comfort.
@steveradanovich49626 жыл бұрын
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? Jeremiah 17
@inkyguy3 жыл бұрын
That’s one perspective. I have learned to trust it and allow it to guide me. A heart need be no more deceitful than you allow it to be or become.
@miltrol3d773 жыл бұрын
@@inkyguy the heart is deceitful hence…
@EyreEver6 жыл бұрын
He thought he was beaten by that argument in the debate -- but it actually proved his apologetical point.
@andrewcrowder49582 жыл бұрын
Agreed. The talking scale did not build itself; any capability it had was built by a human.
@anairenemartinez165 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Cuba, never heard of him, I knew of Jane Austin, the Bronte sister, Virginia Wolfe but not him. I somehow even have Shadowlands DVD and the love story is very touching.
@giovannim21703 жыл бұрын
I believe that the message CS Lewis was sharing is that unless you come the knowledge of God and what he has done for humanity by giving his only begotten Son Jesus Christ to be sacrificed for our sins...that we should humble ourselves and repent Ask Jesus today to be your Lord and Saviour , it never to late. His word is come as you are know matter how much you have sinned, he is a Loving and Forgiving God.
@dragonfly686868 Жыл бұрын
just learnt about him last weekend. i'm inspired to read his book now but don't know which one to start from!!!
@LULUCLARKE066 жыл бұрын
I like the content of these documentaries. I really wanted to listen to this one. The background music is so very loud, it distracts from the presenters words. You might as well not have a presenter, but show the pictures and backgrounds with the music. That is what the loudness is conveying. The music is more important than the content of the documentary. Please tone down the music. They are always very well organized. Please fix this problem. I really want to learn about C. S. Lewis as a poet. Thank you.
@hannahbe82625 жыл бұрын
There's a better upload of this doc (with something like the original sound mix) on Daily Motion
@pierremoreau9866 жыл бұрын
Excellent despite the sound balance issues, thank you.
@iodainsoneoficial3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, beautiful documentary!
@matthewstokes16086 жыл бұрын
Excellent... Thanks so much.
@erosfreestyle184 жыл бұрын
Great Narnian documentary!!
@juanvelez85646 жыл бұрын
One more comment about the audio---30 minutes in, and there is no Wagner (not that I miss it). Most of what we hear is the sublime Funeral March from Beethoven's Third symphony. Sublime.
@chrisrobinson346 жыл бұрын
Too much musical background. Ruins it.
@MarkEvanWhite3 жыл бұрын
But the answer was so simple, man created the talking weight machine and the measuring process therefore it still means nothing without an inner truth that comes from God🎼
@olgacarvalho4811 Жыл бұрын
Excellent. Thank you
@NightlightSir6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this!
@isaiahceasarbie5318 Жыл бұрын
What a man!
@tessw97443 жыл бұрын
The narrator "clicks" when he talks...I had to take off my earphones.😂😂😂
@australiacomicsedge26972 ай бұрын
One of the greatest writes of this generation 🎉 1:03
@billdicarlo13403 жыл бұрын
After reading the comments I must say I enjoyed the music.
@mariamavandy53522 жыл бұрын
Excellent documentary
@984francis5 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary.
@martinweiss30546 жыл бұрын
“And that’s (Aslan)the perfect symbol of Christ’s sacrifice in the Middle Ages”- NO!!! For ALL ages, and for eternity!
@charlesdavis70876 жыл бұрын
This is the eternal gnosis. It is eternal, everlasting, ever present and yet, it functions only as guide, an archetypal guide to what we can be individually and collectively. His legacy... is a reminder... to all of us of our Christ-like potentials.
@m359266 жыл бұрын
Strefanasha Aslan's sacrifice is analogous to Christ. Every analogy breaks down at some level. Chill out.
@designedtoworship6 жыл бұрын
He did not die to placate the White Witch. He died to satisfy the law which had been given by the Emperor Over the Sea. The White Witch only served to remind Aslan that Edmund must die for his treachery (much as Satan accuses humanity before God). Aslan took Edmund's place to satisfy the law. The analogy doesn't break down nearly as early as you think.
@evelynbaron20046 жыл бұрын
I respect your theological enthusiasm but it`s not germane to the topic.
@saskoilersfan6 жыл бұрын
Why is a raven like a writing desk? They both have caws for thought. They both have cause forethought.
@jinunushi72692 жыл бұрын
He failed his driving test 17 times 😂😂
@therealinformalmusic28 күн бұрын
Elizabeth Anscombe herself did not regard her debating victory as particularly humiliating; she wrote: “The fact that Lewis rewrote that chapter [of •Miracles•], and rewrote it so that it now has those qualities, shows his honesty and seriousness. The meeting of the Socratic Club at which I read my paper has been described by several of his friends as a horrible and shocking experience which upset him very much. Neither Dr Harvard (who had Lewis and me to dinner a few weeks later) nor Professor Jack Bennet remembered any such feelings on Lewis’s part […]. My own recollection is that it was an occasion of sober discussion of certain quite definite criticisms, which Lewis’s rethinking and rewriting showed he thought was accurate. I am inclined to construe the odd accounts of the matter by some of his friends - who seem not to have been interested in the actual arguments of the subject-matter - as an interesting example of the phenomenon called projection.”
@parkviewmo6 жыл бұрын
Music is so loud I can't hear the narrator. Just a very poor sound mix. Fascinating topic.
@margueritamclean61586 жыл бұрын
And JESUS said.."My KINGDOM is not of this world"..
@LEGASItv3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 💐
@judithtordoir2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this, but would appreciate the background music not drown the narrator, please? Thank you.
@bayreuth796 жыл бұрын
When talking about Wagner's music why not have that music actually playing, instead of Beethoven's Third Symphony (the Funeral March)?
@dabedwards6 жыл бұрын
An excellent doco, beautifully presented by A.N. Wilson, despite his "old fogey" manner! Couple of points: (1) Why use Beethoven's Eroica while specifically talking about Wagner's Ring Cycle? (2) On the sound track issue.....here's my theory. Docos generally have a "fully mixed" stereo track in the file/tape, and a separate Music & Effects track, produced for the convenience of foreign language buyers, so they can add their own narrator. You're supposed to use one or the other, but I suspect many uploads like this have unwittingly mixed the two tracks, thereby doubling the volume level of all sound except the narration. Any sound engineers care to comment?
@hannahbe82625 жыл бұрын
There's a better upload of this doc (with something like the original sound mix) on Daily Motion
@missm80675 жыл бұрын
I was listening to this documentary without really paying attention to it and when the host said “and meets a beautiful woman” an ad came on with sirens at 18:01 and it was just perfect since that lady turned out to be a monster 😂😂😂
@missOhdrey6 жыл бұрын
Honestly 9 ads for a 55 min documentary is a bit extreme..
@jansumi6 жыл бұрын
The comments about the sound problems are dissuading me. Hope it can be fixed and re-posted.
@troynov19654 жыл бұрын
Music needs to be louder i can still hear the narrator somewhat.
@BrettBorovic4 жыл бұрын
🤣👍
@GottaWannaDance2 жыл бұрын
The audio is really quiet, so I max out the volume, then it's incredibly loud, so I run back to bring it down and then it fades to almost silence. I'll have to watch this in some deep woods away from anyone,
@系哦諾嫑2 жыл бұрын
The music is too loud. Other than that, it's an enjoyable program.
@r.blakehole9326 жыл бұрын
Other commentators are right. Sound is horrible in this.
@JohnDoe-1013 жыл бұрын
The music is distracting and too loud.
@nosystem1098 Жыл бұрын
A good biography, and well worth watching, but the sound mixing was terrible. The music frequently drowned out the narrator.
@1deviousmama3332 жыл бұрын
This is the same documentary on the absolute history channel.
@geoffreynhill28333 жыл бұрын
Oh dear. Tinkly piano, jokey strings and dramatic percussion to help us along...
@cslcojoco6 жыл бұрын
Elizabeth Anscombe’s argument seems rather stupid. Why didn’t Lewis just say something like, “Yes, but it’s not the machine all on its own telling the truth. It’s the intelligence that designed the machine telling the truth through the machine.” Her illustration was a bad one because, in fact, there are no good ones to demonstrate that truth-telling intelligence can be produced by naturalistic means. Unless one accepts on faith that the universe produced our intelligences by purely naturalistic means. If it happened, it was the only time it has because there’s never been any other demonstrable instance of intelligible information coming from non-intelligence.
@saskoilersfan6 жыл бұрын
cslcojoco hi...can we chat . I dont see how a macine thats not invented by a liar can catch a liar... I see lies every day... I am lied to everyday.. I dont allow the lies to bother me until they effect me personally. I recognise usa as a society of lies now .. The kennedy oz enigma... The assassination by Oz.. The assassination of Os.. The wedding of O's... Smart people who are masters of perceptions can catch liars... How come usa has president Donald? Disney medias take over usa now? How come usa had vice president Mickey...or mike...? Usa medias rule usa in disneys images...ergo...Disney medias rigged an election for donald and mickey.... Intelligent lies mock your perceptions ... Democracy is an illusion of a peoples government..
@markhughes7927 Жыл бұрын
1:10 Whose telling the story? - the narrator? - or bad music? Was this actually edited?
@jaden_bricker6 жыл бұрын
When you’re commentating a documentary but have to literally shout to be heard over the music
@Diane-mf5tr Жыл бұрын
If it wasnt for the loud music all the way i would have listened to it.Narrstor is good image superb tho.
@chasriner3 жыл бұрын
Why the loud background music? It is VERY distracting!
@sandra156066 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the piano tune played in Return to Betjemanland in the segment at Oxford University.
@saskoilersfan4 жыл бұрын
I'm not lost , I'm right here working on the Kennedy Oz enigmas...
@tsundzukashipalana88703 жыл бұрын
Lewis was a good poet. Got the sense that the presenter hates Lewis
@shadowl3gion6412 жыл бұрын
Timeline - World History Documentaries have you made a Tolkien document
@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын
The music track completely covers the narration far too often, and it doesn’t matter if I have my AirPods Pro in,or nothing at all.
@HartKent2 жыл бұрын
I find the music a hot too loud to hear all the narrator is saying
@elizabethwalters77413 жыл бұрын
there were so many ads interrupting I got nothing from this documentary
@SueG353 жыл бұрын
Here is a trick to avoid ads. Fast-forward the video till the very end, and then hit replay. There will be no ads. Another way to avoid ads is to download the video. There are no ads in a downloaded video. Hope this helps🙂
@richard7crowley6 жыл бұрын
Did the wrong version get released? This has not had the final audio mix and mastering. Worst audio mix I have ever heard in a "broadcast quality" production. Bad enough to discourage me from finishing even though the subject (CSL) is of great interest. Can you upload the version with the proper mix?
@omfug71485 жыл бұрын
I honestly think that they do this to avoid copyright infringement, how it works I have no idea.
@jamesbunch89322 жыл бұрын
Elisabeth Anscomb's argument (as presented here) wasn't that difficult to refute though... It certainly doesn't sound like it was an argument against anything Lewis actually believed... I'm confused...
@jonathanellis58114 жыл бұрын
The argument that Elizabeth Armstrong made is hardly a counter to what Lewis said. If anything, it actually proves his point! Lewis' argument states that if everything is "justified" by mechanical processes, then there is no right or wrong. Her response was to step on a machine that says "you weigh 15 stones." Yes, I DO weigh 15 stones, but how heavy are those stones? You've told me absolutely nothing, as no two stones are naturally identical, so the answer that the mechanical machine gave is both right and wrong. If something is both of those at the same time, then it is contradicting itself, which thereby proves Lewis' statement to be true! Perhaps I am misunderstanding... or perhaps Lewis didn't think on this? I dunno - what do you think?
@susanmurray41762 жыл бұрын
,just want to see it but it doesn't seem to turn on.
@bsastarfire250 Жыл бұрын
Piano music too loud and annoying !
@justjohn20115 жыл бұрын
Can somebody name me the scores in this documentary?
@5kehhn4 жыл бұрын
Not bad documentary, but the sound mixing is bad: music overpowers the narration; periodically, the volume jumps up causing me to have to turn my volume up/down.
@charlesblount68586 жыл бұрын
Why do people always need to complain to think they will be heard?
@shadowl3gion6413 жыл бұрын
Have they done Tolkien documents
@ConfessionGang2 жыл бұрын
What is the music at 28:10??
@steveradanovich49623 жыл бұрын
The music rudely interferes with the dialogue.
@probro98984 жыл бұрын
No one ever mentions that what Lewis did - having a sham marriage for immigration purposes - would these days have landed him in prison. It would be interesting to know when and how attitudes changed about this matter.