Are there any courses on C.S. Lewis’s work?
AP: Yes… PD: Are you teaching it? AP: {Laughs} Not yet! PD: Are people cheating from your notes? AP: When people talk about university in England, they always emphasise, ‘Oh it’s a riot, they’re the best years of your life,’ which I always think is quite worrying because if you get three years which are the best years of your life then what are you gonna do afterwards? But everyone always talks about how much fun it is, you’re partying, you do this, you do that… And I completely forgot that actually there is work involved. I actually have to go now cos I have to write an assay. But no, it’s quite hard work, but it’s really challenging and really good fun and I’m loving it. Q: Did you choose Magdalen because it was Lewis’ college? AP: Uh, no. I mean I didn’t kind of read a biography and think, ‘Right, I’m gonna follow every step,’ no. I actually applied before I – someone had told me but it had completely gone out of my head – I applied before I’d made the connection. I mean he taught t
