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Kirk Manton

Kirk Manton

Director of Development at Eastgate Creative and Development and Partnerships Director at the C.S. Lewis Foundation, producer of the documentary series "The Forge of Friendship" about Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Aug 10, 2026

11:28
and i remember that when you brought me in to speak it was about their the motorcycle ride to the zoo when lewis and warnie went to the zoo and somewhere along that ride lewis became a christian and i got to see some of the footage that you guys were putting together from that and one of the things that stuck with me about that was that attention to detail tell us a little bit about you know that scene but also how that's emblematic of how the entire thing is put together
11:52
Yes, we have the details of the scholars and experts' story.
12:00
And then we have additional background details around it.
12:04
And so as best that we can, we add in, we show the things that are being talked about within the atmosphere.
12:16
We would film in the actual locations, the motorcycle rides.
12:21
That road that he rode in, that we showed them riding in, is the actual road to the Whipsnade Zoo.
12:31
The motorcycle is the same year, the same year sidecar, detailed research, and just ended up with amazing coincidences that God put together for us to be able to find a person who had a restored... motorcycle of that year with the sidecar very likely was the kind that he, he would have had.

19 MINS LATER

31:41
Yeah.

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