The Rev. Dr. Michael Ward is an Anglican minister and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. It was made into a BBC documentary called The Narnia Code, broadcast on BBC1 on April 16 and repeated on BBC4 in May. He spoke to EN.
EN: Explain simply your thesis.
MW: In a nutshell: Narnia is based on the seven heavens. Now for the longer answer!
Lewis once said that the whole Narnia series was ‘about Christ’. Yes, indeed. I totally believe him. But how is it about Christ?
