S03 E03: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

<p>BOOK SYNOPSIS</p> <p>Wartime Britain. Four precocious and posh children have just been evacuated old manor in the countryside. While exploring the house, the youngest child, Lucy, goes into a wardrobe in one of the house’s many bedrooms, and walks right through the back into a new world beyond. The world of Narnia. In the mystical snowy kingdom, she and her siblings encounter anthropomorphised goats, beavers, birds, Santa Claus and the White Witch, the evil overlord of Narnia who's on the hunt for the children. As the children struggle to evade the her clutches, they're rescued by King Aslan, a magical lion who returns to Narnia after a long absence to save the kingdom from the witches' endless winter.</p> <p> </p> <p>POD SYNPOSIS</p> <p>Misleading titles, questionable logic and the BNP beaver. In what feels a long overdue episode, we're heading through the wardrobe for a thorough exploration of Narnia, as we get stuck into C.S. Lewis' 40s fable The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. For quite some time. Is there more here than a hodgepodge of folklore and Christian allegories? Is Mrs Macready a ghost? Do we, as adults, miss the point by micro-analysing the text? And when would be the least convenient time to fall through the back of the wardrobe? All that and more on this episode of A Novel Adventure.</p> <p> </p>