Screwtape Letters Audio Drama - Behind the Scenes

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  • Purchase the Screwtape Letters Audio Drama CD and DVD at Christianbook.com:
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    Wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis's masterpiece is one of the most engaging accounts of temptation---and triumph over it---ever written. In this audio dramatization, original music and a full cast bring the correspondence of the worldly wise demon Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood to life. 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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  • @wheelzwheela
    @wheelzwheela 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Serkis was a great choice. C. S. Lewis was a genius and his work should be presented by the best we have to offer.

    • @mariodatguy4988
      @mariodatguy4988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's amazing because Lewis dedicated it to Tolkien and none other than Gollum will play Uncle Screwtape

    • @frans3950
      @frans3950 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mariodatguy4988 lol, you are a funny guy.

    • @klouise8248
      @klouise8248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why, he is an athiest.. of course being a child of the devil would make him a good choice. However, Max McClean did a much better job and he is born again, therfore has a better understanding of the wiles of the devil.

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain 7 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    How fitting that Andy Serkis voices Screwtape. It's like now we get to say to Screwtape: "Leave now and never come back!"

  • @MichaelBee19
    @MichaelBee19 11 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This is honestly not only amazing as a theological piece, but it's also turned into a great dramatic piece as well: Screwtape, despite his years of experience and success, is still dead set on continuing his career through Wormwood, as he views the current demon education system to be inefficiently melodramatic. But as the Patient grows as a Christian and subsequently a good man, Screwtape's sanity starts to degenerate as he's confronted with true failure in the face of God for the first time.

  • @marekeos
    @marekeos ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This production of the great literary masterpiece was fantastic! Loved every second of it. The actors were utterly brilliant!

  • @ForGondor01
    @ForGondor01 12 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    "The Enemy wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."...Thank you FOTF Radio Theater for making the Screwtape Letters. It is lively, intriguing, hilarious, and cutting, and excellently represents C.S. Lewis's book. I will enjoy listening to it for years to come.:)

    • @zaggers77
      @zaggers77 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The screw tape letters m.th-cam.com/video/JPvThvejsrI/w-d-xo.html

  • @FullMoonHowl
    @FullMoonHowl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a dynamic cast for such a significant work of literature!

  • @muchahca07
    @muchahca07 14 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    He sounds like scar from lion king : )

  • @rt2wshpMyWay
    @rt2wshpMyWay 9 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This rendition by "Focus On The Family Radio Theater - Collector's Edition": of C.S. Lewis - Screwtape Letters is BY FAR the BEST Ever Produced, I have listened to this 4 CD version several times over the past few years :) I would luv to see these actors collaborate with movie magic's such as Lucasfilm to produce the movie of this book :)

    • @PresbianTier
      @PresbianTier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And no one other than Andy Serkis as Screwtape.

    • @ScotsThinker
      @ScotsThinker 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about a TV Series or mini-series of about 31 episodes?

    • @michaelkingsbury4305
      @michaelkingsbury4305 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh you spoiled it for me. I was interested in buying a copy but now if any of my money would go to that hateful vindictive misogynistic homophobic political agit-propoganda group in Colorado I would rather have Andy Serkis voice this comment as Screwtape.Same demons different company.

    • @edifyguy
      @edifyguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelkingsbury4305 I would suggest that you do not understand these letters at all if you can make this remark.

  • @JeremyRichard82
    @JeremyRichard82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Why am I just now finding out about this?!

    • @yeshalloween
      @yeshalloween 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s what I’m wondering!

    • @withsisu2324
      @withsisu2324 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      For real!! I just found out about this today! I never knew Focus on the Family did audio dramas let alone ones with freaking ANDY SERKIS in them!!!! I can't find a free or downloadable version anywhere though and don't have a CD player to buy the CD version! Really want to listen to this!!

    • @kermitbnc
      @kermitbnc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@withsisu2324 Same here..Went to my local used book store today to by the book while I’m reading the Hobbit..and just stumbled across this just now!!

  • @dontletithappen
    @dontletithappen 12 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is so well-written and now performed. I had not read the book so did not know exactly what this work of fiction would be about. It was excellent and at times very funny and very scary - thought provoking, well done.

  • @facepaintedlegend
    @facepaintedlegend 15 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Andy Serkis! AWESOME!!

  • @PARADIGMCREATIVEGROUP
    @PARADIGMCREATIVEGROUP 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great video!!!! Amazing how beautiful the voice can craft the imagination

  • @ellie698
    @ellie698 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderful wonderful wonderful thank you so much for showing this

  • @Kinglystateof
    @Kinglystateof 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love John Cleese’s performance in this part it was more of an older more brooding version that took a while to build but none the less impactful

  • @jeffcmolik
    @jeffcmolik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just bought on Apple Music. My brother and I are doing an accompanying Bible study and I know this will enrich it. Thank you so much!

    • @Freed_captive705
      @Freed_captive705 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey!What Bible study? I was interested in finding one

    • @jeffcmolik
      @jeffcmolik ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Freed_captive705 when I get home tonight I’ll look at the book and tell you exactly which one

    • @Freed_captive705
      @Freed_captive705 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeffcmolik thank you so much!!

  • @meppy1782
    @meppy1782 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At 4:30 I was so hoping he would say "precious..." Some other time.

  • @calebbowling4137
    @calebbowling4137 ปีที่แล้ว

    hearing douglas gresham speak tickles my toes, i love that man and the influence he uses for good

  • @skylarwarren2496
    @skylarwarren2496 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The ending is hillarious!!!🤣🤣

  • @zissou6928
    @zissou6928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Greatest voice on the planet

  • @poppyseed1987
    @poppyseed1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok I nerded out, not about Andy, but Paul McCusker! Ohmygosh, I grew up listening to him on Odyssey! I love it!

  • @mattmatician
    @mattmatician 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    put this on audible please or at least let us buy a digital form

  • @Topher3088
    @Topher3088 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just read this but now need to listen to this recording. Just found it on YT and also found out that Water Martin wrote a sequel to the Screwtape Letters

  • @rafagambardella
    @rafagambardella 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @RazzleJazzle420
    @RazzleJazzle420 ปีที่แล้ว

    The $30 price tag was high, but definitely worth it. You guys did a phenomenal job

  • @SolaGratia.
    @SolaGratia. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Look! It's Smeagol!

    • @Chaotic_Observer
      @Chaotic_Observer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stephie Calligraphy lol Smeago😆😆

  • @maximummax9851
    @maximummax9851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow whoa!

  • @Scott6459
    @Scott6459 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If ever there was a time when a cinematic dramatization of Lewis' extraordinary work was needful...it is today!! The decline of western culture cries for such an eye-opener as this. Enough Narinia. Let's see Screwtape on the screen!!

    • @buck_williams8841
      @buck_williams8841 ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be a true challenge to accomplish, but still interesting. 🙂

  • @jennywc
    @jennywc 11 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Andy Serkis playing a demon?! (Please tell me he lets loose just one "My precious")

  • @yeshalloween
    @yeshalloween 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh I’m purchasing this!

  • @kellideyoung9655
    @kellideyoung9655 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ll share this audiobook! With my boys

  • @LordQueezle
    @LordQueezle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Andy Serkis really does a brilliant job. But I do think I prefer John Cleese's version. He approaches it much more like a bored English gentle man... Somehow to me that seem more terrifying than "demonic" voice.
    All that said, I am a huge fan of Serkis, he's brilliant and I think this recording was executed really well.

    • @SeenAGreatLight
      @SeenAGreatLight ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The finished recording is actually surprisingly more subtle than the examples in this video! He runs the whole gamut from explosive fury to crafty whispers.

  • @captainjack8319
    @captainjack8319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t believe I found this video, all these years later. I always wonder if working on content like this ends up leading people to Christ-not sure about Serkis, but I wonder.

  • @josevalan2402
    @josevalan2402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is good. Thank you.

  • @supremeoverlordofnaughtine9778
    @supremeoverlordofnaughtine9778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    300!!!

  • @ZacchaeusNifong
    @ZacchaeusNifong 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These are brilliant men.

  • @melissafradette479
    @melissafradette479 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome.

  • @rawfoodelectric
    @rawfoodelectric 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    awesome.

  • @nikosalexopoulos6542
    @nikosalexopoulos6542 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When i first heard the recordings, i thought it was Jeremy Irons

  • @nin3755
    @nin3755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wheres the audio drama though? If its bbc then we have paid for this and deserve to be able to view it

    • @yeshalloween
      @yeshalloween 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry, you deserve it?

    • @nin3755
      @nin3755 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yeshalloween are you american? Bbc here is paid for by license payers you derp

  • @karenkarlik668
    @karenkarlik668 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He is the perfect choice

  • @sonofode902
    @sonofode902 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Screwtape is the greatest devil Advocate.
    Gin,

  • @myvideos6731
    @myvideos6731 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! He's too good. Disturbing!

  • @victorinerotich1424
    @victorinerotich1424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Where can I get the full recording of this dramatised version?

    • @paulewing8166
      @paulewing8166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      follow the link in the description.

  • @katygaston8777
    @katygaston8777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Has anyone noticed most of the excerpts in the video are from the last letter?

  • @jamiepeterson5843
    @jamiepeterson5843 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m surprised that Andy Serkis decided to do this because it deals with themes of the devil and God. Dont get me wrong especially his Gollum is spot on I think Tolkien would have loved to have seen the movies with him in it. Still not many Hollywood actors are Christians much less agree to be in that said production

  • @NedWasHere94
    @NedWasHere94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does anybody know where we could get a digital download?

    • @zaggers77
      @zaggers77 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Free online.

  • @MissLionRose
    @MissLionRose 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m loving this!
    NEW subscriber 🙏
    Thanks for the amazing content 💖✨😍

  • @hanksmithjr5044
    @hanksmithjr5044 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where's the Beef?
    I want to see the movie!

  • @jeremiahclipp
    @jeremiahclipp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Serkis is a voicermind

  • @JillianMae86
    @JillianMae86 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @FewFew77
    @FewFew77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    People that want to trans their kids and have drag queen story time should read this book.

  • @maximummax9851
    @maximummax9851 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Andy from the Lord of the rings!

  • @maximummax9851
    @maximummax9851 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s Peter Jackson! From the Lord of the rings!

  • @jeremydrewry6717
    @jeremydrewry6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this out yet????

  • @blackoutninja
    @blackoutninja 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can somebody explain the context for the "Series of Recordings" lines?

    • @theawesomenesspersonified
      @theawesomenesspersonified 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The original introduction written by C. S. Lewis follows a similar pattern, in which Lewis claims to have "discovered" the correspondence between the demons. Of course the Screwtape Letters is purely fiction written by Lewis himself; but the "joke" was to, in a sense, fictionalize the truth and teach in reverse. Hence his introduction to the book furthering this concept in another way.

    • @Salmonking12
      @Salmonking12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Josiah- I wasn’t asking about CS Lewis’ introduction, I’ve read it many times. I’m talking about the one here

    • @paulewing8166
      @paulewing8166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Salmonking12 I should imagine it's simply to contextualize it, since this is an audio version.

    • @blackoutninja
      @blackoutninja 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulewing8166 But none of what she says fits anywhere into the story... and besides if you listen to the audiobook it isnt part of it anyway

    • @paulewing8166
      @paulewing8166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blackoutninja The context is of this promotional video

  • @joyr4461
    @joyr4461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All I can think of is....
    *Snoke*

  • @charliecrowe6606
    @charliecrowe6606 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Andy Serkis is terrifying.

  • @maximummax9851
    @maximummax9851 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Andy wrong guy

  • @TahloolaDarlin
    @TahloolaDarlin 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where may I find this version?

    • @traykunable
      @traykunable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      archive.org/details/letter.31the.inexplicable.end/Letter.03-Daily.Pinpricks.ogg You're welcome.

    • @patjones4250
      @patjones4250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      5/29/'20: I just ordered it in person from a Christian bookstore called The Parable. $40. Two days from order to arrival. Cd's, bonus DVD, 5.1... go get it 😀👍

    • @patjones4250
      @patjones4250 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@traykunable that's great, but they want this particular version and this link is a different version.

    • @paulewing8166
      @paulewing8166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patjones4250 wrong. The link IS this version.

    • @aliza6984
      @aliza6984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@traykunable thank you so much!!

  • @jquaite
    @jquaite 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Andy Serkis is brilliant but his performance in this feels like it's not quite on point. In the book, Lewis seems to depict Screwtape's demeanor as that of a very decent Englishman (if not for all his evil intentions), not as this monstrous goblin that Serkis is performing. Again, Serkis is normally brilliant, but as Lewis says in the book, it is this over the top, melodramatic depiction of demonism that causes people not to take it seriously. Hopefully he tones it down during portions of the performance. I couldn't imagine how he would deliver "Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape" in the same melodramatic tone.

  • @buidseach
    @buidseach 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Bass level is hurting my ears !

  • @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
    @Geronimo_Jehoshaphat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pretty sure Andy Serkis is a rampant athiest, but anyway.

  • @whynaut1
    @whynaut1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    John Cleese did it better. Cleese brought in the evilness of indifference rather than this pointy-horned demon version that the book actually ridicules.

    • @stevenwiederholt7000
      @stevenwiederholt7000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Cleese is very good, but it is not a zero sum game.

    • @lastswordfighter
      @lastswordfighter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Both a very talented but are different with their performances. It still leaves quite the impression.

    • @themajor333
      @themajor333 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I get what you are saying but damn this creeps me to hell out and makes the content stick more lol

  • @crystalclear6864
    @crystalclear6864 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where can i listen to this? First i heard serkisxwas reading as he will be brilliant( must have been) in this

  • @sonofode902
    @sonofode902 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Screwtape is the greatest devil Advocate.
    Gin,