C. S. Lewis went through an agnostic period when his faith was tested sufficiently for him to understand that his doubts would enable him to ask questions leading him to answers that would return him to his Christian faith.
He described his last struggle in Surprised by Joy:
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen [College, Oxford], night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England
During the Second World War volunteered his services, broadcasting his thoughts on his Christian beliefs through BBC radio.
Here is one of those broadcasts (audio). C. S. Lewis was an Oxford University don whose precise pronunciation (Received Pronunciation) is no longer in fashion in radio, or television broadcasting. His every word is crystal clear.
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