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Ave Maria University has a number of talks online from past years -- 2004 and on, to be exact. There aren't a ton, but the ones that are there are what you would expect from Ave Maria. Here are some early ones:

Here are some miscellaneous talks from the audio grab-bag. I have no idea the orthodoxy level of these talks, but they're all given from a generally conservative point of view. Take that for what it's worth...

Hadley Arkes on how the defense in the courts of the "right to privacy" has transformed thinking about law and rights in American society

Terence Nichols on how and why religion has become so privatized in America

Jewish bioethicist (and former head of the President's Council on Bioethics) Leon Kass, on how new technologies have changed the assumptions many people have about their children

Russell Hittinger on the reasoning behind the upholding of a right to physician-assisted suicide in Compassion in Dying v. Washington

Bradley J. Birzer on how Tolkien understood the idea of myth

Nigel Cameron on the obstacles and opportunities facing Christians concerned about bioethics

Ralph C. Wood on how Tolkien viewed the use and meaning of human language

James A. Herrick on Mormonism, gnosticism, and the significance of Luke Skywalker

Thomas de Zengotita, on postmodern individualism and "reality" TV

Calvin Stapert, on the sense of resolution, completion, and the sense of the goodness of creation in Mozart's music.

James A. Herrick, on evolution as a religion.

Patrick Deneen, on how Wendell Berry’s thought demonstrates his identity as a “Kentucky Aristotelian.”

Matthew Dickerson, on the glory of trees and the shepherdhood of ents.

I don't really know what a Catholic was doing speaking at a Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (or, rather, what they were doing inviting him to speak) but here are a couple of his lectures...I'm assured that they're quite good....

Joseph Pearce is the Writer-in-Residence at Ave Maria University and Associate Professor of Literature. He previously taught at Ave Maria College in Michigan. Mr. Pearce has published numerous books on the great Christian intellectuals including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, and Oscar Wilde, to name but a few. Several of his books have won literary awards. He lectures widely around the United States and Europe on many topics and has published several articles. He is the Co-Editor of the St. Austin Review and the Editor-in-Chief of Sapientia Press.

Oct. 19, 2005	"Truth and Myth: Unlocking the Lord of the Rings"
Oct. 20, 2005	"Creator, Creation and Creativity: Understanding Tolkien's and Lewis' Philosophy of Myth"

Oct. 21, 2005	Forum with Joseph Pearce, Russell D. Moore, James Parker, and Jim Orrick—Part 1
Oct. 21, 2005	Forum with Joseph Pearce, Russell D. Moore, James Parker, and Jim Orrick—Part 2

Here are some general talks about C.S. Lewis' work. Some are by Catholics, some by non-Catholics, but since C.S. Lewis was Anglican I don't think many will mind. That said...Enjoy!

On Monday 8 May at C.S. Lewis Today in Melbourne, Greg Clarke gave a talk on “Screwtape proposes an apologetic” and the century-old tradition of mocking the devil. Free MP3 download (3.33MB; 29:07).

On Thursday 4 May at Lewis for Educators, Andrew Lansdown gave his keynote address on the subject of whether Christians ought to be reading or writing fantasy literature. Given the controversy in some parts of the world over J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and even C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this is an issue worth exploring in some depth. You can listen to what Andrew has to say on the subject by downloading the MP3 of his talk (22.2MB; 57 min approx).

On Saturday 6 May at Lewis for Everyone, Chris Mitchell, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center in Illinois (an international research centre on Lewis and the other Inklings), gave a talk on C.S. Lewis's address, “Transposition”, and how it relates to The Chronicles of Narnia and Lewis's other works. We are pleased to be able to offer the MP3 of his talk as a free download (23.7MB; 50 min approx).

At Lewis for Everyone on Saturday 6 May 2006, a panel consisting of Don McAlpine (Director of Photography), Tracey Reebey (part of the Academy award-winning hair and make-up team) and Linda Banks (who, in the absence of Douglas Gresham, stepped in to represent C.S. Lewis readers and fans) discussed the film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Robert Banks chaired the discussion. You can now listen to part of it by downloading the MP3 file (15.5MB; 25 min approx).

Peter Kreeft on Mere Christianity


Peter Kreeft on The Problem of Pain


Peter Kreeft on A Grief Observed


What Christians Believe — A review of Part II of "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis, which is the first book Kreeft recommends after the Bible.

For an online streaming interview with Kreeft (and other speakers) regarding C.S. Lewis and the Screwtape Letters, see:

WGBH Forum on C.S.Lewis (Part 1)
WGBH Forum on C.S.Lewis (Part 2)

Philip van der Elst on C.S. Lewis MP3

And last, but not least...here's the full Audiobook Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis:

Another blogger writes:

I had read most of the published material by and about C.S. Lewis long before I had a chance to hear his voice. That was not the experience of most of his countrymen - he was a radio personality first for most of them, presenting short talks on the BBC during the Second World War. Very few of those broadcasts were preserved.

The BBC has made available the only surviving audio recording of the radio talks that C.S. Lewis later adapted to become Mere Christianity. It is of material that contributed to the third section of the book: "Beyond Personality." Listen here: "The New Men." [Realmedia, about 14 min.] The original broadcast was on March 21, 1944.

At the same BBC site is a much shorter reading by Lewis of an introduction to The Great Divorce. It was broadcast on May 9, 1948, and can be listened to here: "The Great Divorce" [Realmedia, about 2 min.].

Thanks to the New York C.S. Lewis Society for the reference.

If you need it, here's my post on how to Convert RealAudio to MP3.

UPDATE:

Here are a couple more, used with permission from HarperCollins:

• Introduction to The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis
• "Agape Love" from The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis
• "Is Creation Necessary?" from The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis

Yes, yes, Lewis is Anglican. I know that. You know that. Now that we both know that, here are the links:


Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker thought for C.S. Lewis than was later evidenced in his Christian apologist writings.

The darkness of the verse is most evident in Part One (The Prison House), begins to change in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout.

Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the landscapes portrayed in his famous Chronicles of Narnia series.

(Summary by Robert Garrison)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Spirits in Bondage
• Zip file of the entire book in MP3 format (37.4MB)

Read by Robert Garrison

mp3 and ogg files

• Part 01 - 00:41:17
  [mp3@64kbps - 19.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 39.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 21.4MB]

• Part 02 - 00:06:58
  [mp3@64kbps - 3.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 6.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3.5MB]

• Part 03 - 00:29:39
  [mp3@64kbps - 14.2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 28.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 14.8MB]