I guess I missed the announcement this summer, because I just learned about Mars Hill Audio’s podcast, Audition. Ken Myers’ most recent recording is dedicated to P.D. James’s ideas on fiction and mystery and her sci-fi novel, The Children of Men. I believe I have heard most of this recording in early editions of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, and here you can listen to it for free.

The previous podcast has many literary subjects too. Taking from the description post, this recording discusses:

• “how W. H. Auden’s conversion to Christianity affected his poetry”
• “J. R. R. Tolkien’s view of language, and the dangers of a society that debases language”
• “how Flannery O’Connor’s fiction reveals her incarnational view of life”
• “how myth differs from the modern novel, and what is lost when the gods disappear from our stories”
• “how C. S. Lewis was more open-minded than his Victorian atheistic teachers, and how that open-mindedness left room for Lewis to become a Christian”

Wonderful stuff.