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From the award-winning audio drama team that brought you Radio Theatre’s Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast enterprise, have horribly recognizable human attributes: competition, greed, and totalitarian punishment. Avoiding their own painful torture as well as a desire to dominate are what drive demons to torment their “patients.”
The style and unique dark humor of The Screwtape Letters are retained in this full-cast dramatization, as is the original setting of London during World War II. The story is carried by the senior demon Screwtape played magnificently by award-winning actor Andy Serkis (“Gollum” in Lord of the Rings) as he shares correspondence to his apprentice demon Wormwood. All 31 letters lead into dramatic scenes, set in either Hell or the real world with humans—aka “the patient,” as the demons say—along with his circle of friends and family. This Radio Theatre release also stars Geoffrey Palmer (Tomorrow Never Dies), Laura Michelle Kelly (Sweeney Todd), Eileen Page (The Secret Garden), and other world-class actors.
Includes 10 new songs inspired by the classic book, four behind-the-scenes video documentary featurettes, and a 5.1 surround sound mix. Four CDs, approx. 4 hours total.
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The Screwtape Letters are fascinating! CS Lewis has an amazing gift of tapping into the human psyche. He is able to put into words (and voice) exactly what someone has experienced and make them better realize areas of struggle or success. It really enlightened me in so many ways to the very real battle between Good and Evil. It is a certain battle that wages in all our lives. We can choose to ignore it or see it for what it is. CS Lewis absolutely captures this battle in such a twist of thought you will be entertained, challenged and intrigued by what you hear. The voice actors are first class!
Awesome! I really liked this take on The Screwtape Letters – it seemed more modern, and more applicable to the here and now. The Dramatization is top notch, and Andy Serkis is very engaging (From Gollum to Screwtape – is that going up or down?) – I couldn’t turn it off once I got started! Whether you are familiar with the book or not, or whether you are a christian, or religious or not, I think anyone will enjoy it, and find it very… intriguing…you may never look at your world the same again….>:D
The quality of this recording is outstanding, the acting is superbly done, and the essence of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape’s Letters is maintained. I’ve been listening to it again and again, but it doesn’t lose that crisp edge of truth or wit.
I have never read C.S. Lewis’ book “The Screwtape Letters” (insert gasp) so when I had the chance to receive the dramatization of the book on audio CD I jumped at it. The set comes on 4 CDs with a bonus DVD in 5.1 surround and a beautiful collector’s case with slip jacket. This is Focus on the Family’s radio theatre version, so as anyone who is familiar with Focus, this is a quality product.
The dramatization is performed by many world class actors and actresses such as, Andy Serkis (Gollum in Lord of the Rings), Geoffrey Palmer (Tomorrow Never Dies), Laura Michelle Kelly (Sweeney Todd) and Eileen Page (The Secret Garden). The vocalization in this drama is incredible and it feels as if one is actually hearing the letters being read by the demons about their “patients”. I will say my children found some aspects of it scary and hard to follow – it isn’t as easy to keep the voices and characters separate as you would if reading a book or watching a movie. The sound effects are also done so well that I could feel myself actually sitting in the places where the “patients” were – background voices, doors opening and closing and so on.
In the DVD you’ll get behind the scenes glimpses at the making of the dramatization, an interview with Andy Serkis who does the voice of Screwtape (AKA senior demon) and other aspects of C.S. Lewis and the making of the incredible recording of “The Screwtape Letters”. A well done DVD that can be played in both regular DVD player or in your computer to make it easier to view.
**I was given a copy for my honest review by Tyndale.
Do you know the fight your up against? How does the devil work? This is a must have for any christian serious about learning to live the christian life.