Broadcast Talks: Reprinted with Some Alterations from Two Series of Broadcast Talks (Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe and What Christians Believe) Given in 1941 and 1942.

LEWIS, C.S.

Item Number: 137122

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942.

First edition of the transcripts of Lewis’s Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe and What Christians Believe; part of his series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944 during the Second World War. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

After reading Lewis's The Problem of Pain James Welch, the Director of Religious Broadcasting for the BBC, wrote Lewis, "I write to ask whether you would be willing to help us in our work of religious broadcasting ... The microphone is a limiting, and rather irritating, instrument, but the quality of thinking and depth of conviction which I find in your book ought sure to be shared with a great many other people." Welch suggested two potential subjects. Lewis responded with thanks and observed that modern literature, the first, did not suit him, choosing instead the Christian faith as Lewis understood it. Now considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity (Broadcast Talks in the United Kingdom) (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944).