Actor Robert Hardy recalls learning from C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford

Actor Robert Hardy is probably best known for the role of Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter film series, but what you may not know is that he had at one point called both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis his professors.  That would be incredible.

From Hollywood Jesus:

He was a student of both Tolkien and Lewis while attending Oxford, and related his experience meeting Lewis, whom he thought was the gardener when he first saw him. Hardy describes the famous Narnia author as “absolutely wonderful, humorous, joyful…”

The five and a half minute video can be viewed at the following link: BBC Radio Oxford’s Phil Gayle speaks to Robert Hardy.