The story is carried by the senior demon Screwtape played magnificently by award-winning actor Andy Serkis ("Gollum" in Lord of the Rings) as he shares correspondence to his apprentice demon Wormwood. The style and unique dark humor of The Screwtape Letters are retained in this full-cast dramatization, as is the original setting of London during World War II. Avoiding their own painful torture as well as a desire to dominate are what drive demons to torment their "patients." With spiritual insight and wry wit, Lewis suggests that demons, laboring in a vast enterprise, have horribly recognizable human attributes: competition, greed, and totalitarian punishment. Lewis re-imagines Hell as a gruesome bureaucracy. In his enduringly popular masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, C. From the award-winning audio drama team that brought you Radio Theatre's Amazing Grace and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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