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The Inklings For A Digital Age!
Season 1 Episodes of The Bitlings
(Includes not-yet-released episodes; this list will be updated as new episodes are recorded)
Episode 1: "I Do Not Counsel Prudence" – Crucial moments with The Last Debate and the Mouth of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings. Listen or watch on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Audible, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, or YouTube.
Episode 2: Bombadil in the Backyard – Why the "Usually Cut" early chapters of The Lord of the Rings are more important than you might think. Listen or watch on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Audible, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, or YouTube.
Episode 3: Boromir: Unsung Hero of The Lord of the Rings – Learn why Boromir is so much more than just, "the guy who [SPOILER ALERT] tried to take the Ring." SPECIAL GUESTS: Abigail and Kaitlyn Newsom. Listen or watch on Spotify, iHeartRadio, Audible, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, or YouTube.
Episode 4: Lies That Create Despair – What Tolkien is showing us with the parallel stories of Theoden and Denethor in The Lord of the Rings.
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The Bitlings is the official podcast of Sargent Family Productions. Hosted by Generations writer and director Kenny Sargent and author William Chad Newsom (Talking of Dragons, The Crown of Fire), The Bitlings features lively and engaging weekly conversation on the best stories for your family—books, movies, and audio dramas.
Our name, The Bitlings, is a tribute to The Inklings, the group of influential early-twentieth-century writers that included C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and others. They wrote with Ink, we write with Bits (as in, the smallest unit of data in computing). Thus, The Bitlings: The Inklings for a Digital Age.
Our focus on The Bitlings is on this simple question: Why Did We Love It? Rather than simply recapping (and thus spoiling) the entire plot—you can always watch movie trailers if you want that—we will instead talk about scenes, chapters, and character moments that simply knocked us out when we first encountered them; and which we still return to again and again because they changed our lives or our perspectives, or because they made us see something about life in a new way. Because we still love them.
We aim to pour that enthusiasm and love into each episode of The Bitlings, to perhaps kindle a flame in your own heart, and help you find another Story You Can Trust!