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Welcome to “The Inklings Variety Hour,” where fans and scholars discuss the lives and works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and the works and authors that inspired them.
Katie Wray Schon joins us to talk about Pauline Baynes, the subject of her new book, Painting Wonder!
It's been a long-held goal of this podcast to devote at least one episode to Pauline Baynes--who, while not an Inkling, illustrated both the Narnia chronicles and many of Tolkien's short stories--in addition to being one of the best illustrators of the 20th Century.
Luckily, Katie Wray Schon has just written and published a children's picture book about Baynes' life, and she joins me to talk about both her work and Baynes'. We talk about Baynes' life--her childhood in India, her discovery of storybooks at dreary British boarding school, her work for the British Navy in WWII, and her career as an illustrator.
Sadly, many of the non-Narnian books Baynes illustrated or created are now out of print or hard to obtain. They include, but aren't limited to:
I Believe: The Nicene Creed
Noah and the Ark
Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary
Good King Wenceslas
A Dictionary of Chivalry, by Grant Uden
Miracle Plays: Seven Medieval Plays for Modern Players, by Anne Malcolmson
All Things Bright and Beautiful
The Arabian Nights, by Amabel Williams-Ellis
The Snail and the Caterpillar, by Helen Piers
Let There Be Light
It would be a worthy project for someone (perhaps a new small press, or even an old, big one) to begin publishing these books again.
In the meantime, of course, pick up Katie Wray Schon's book!
Thanks for listening, as always! We'll see you again in two weeks!
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We've (okay, I've) got a lot more fantastic episodes coming this season, including:
Leaf by Niggle with Ned Bustard and Matt Wheeler
The Abolition of Man: A Roundtable Discussion
Lilith, by George MacDonald
The Oxford History of English Literature (O-HEL Yes!) with Katherine Wyma
That Hideous Strength with Joseph Weigel
Tolkien's Poetry, with Jonathan Geltner
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure 80's Narnia Book (That's right), with Matt Wheeler
And quite a bit more, but I am tired of listing things...
The Inklings Variety Hour
Welcome to “The Inklings Variety Hour,” where fans and scholars discuss the lives and works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and the works and authors that inspired them.
