As a point of interest, I've just bought a complete set (on CDs) of the seven Chronicles of Narnia dramatised as radio plays, after reading some really good reviews of the same and hearing some audio samples online! This version was produced in America but using a British cast, including — and
this is going to be interesting — David "Poirot" Suchet as Aslan.
Each production, too, opens with an introduction by Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis's stepson, who was a huge fan of the books as a boy even before his mother married the author! I started listening to
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe last night and the first surprise was discovering that Douglas has an English accent — you'd never pick that he was actually born in America (though it turns out he was 8 years old, younger than I'd assumed he was, when his family moved to the UK).
I was really eager to get into the story, but then, only a minute or two into the production, my CD player — a cheap bedside one from Tesco that has been giving some trouble lately — conked out and would play no more.
I don't have a CD drive on my computer (it's an ultra-thin laptop) or anything else I could play it on at home, so it'll have to wait till I'm in the car. I was hoping the CD set would arrive before my recent holiday (I ordered it from Amazon and it came from the US), so I could be immersed aurally in Narnia while driving through North Wales, but that wasn't to be... Anyway, if others are interested too, I'll be happy to post my thoughts once I've heard more of it!