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Advertising Creative Director Chas Bayfield takes you on a road trip through the Bible, leaving one significant item of baggage at home- religion. He tells the story from Genesis to Revelation and explains how this more than any other book has impacted western culture. Wholly Buyable is a podcast for people who might never normally pick up a Bible but who feel they should perhaps know a little more about it than they currently do. After all, the Bible is a book for everyone, not just believers. Listeners will be taken through action sequences worthy of a 21st century TV drama. They will be seduced by erotic poetry and bombarded with hallucinatory visions. Fill your boots with betrayal, brutality, beauty and, believe it or not, comedy. This isn’t your average Bible podcast; no one will be told what to believe but everyone who joins in the journey will hopefully feel that they know the world’s best-selling book a little better.
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In this sequence of Psalms, Israel's king, David suffers a long dark night of the soul after sending a man to his death, he berates an evil shepherd who massacred a community of Israel's priests and is betrayed by a close friend.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
The temple musicians known as the Sons of Korah are in full song.A psalm about a glorious king and his bride, three songs eulogising God's earthly capital, Zion, and a song that promises death to those who trust in their own wisdom.\Join us as we jump back into the Jews' ancient song book Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
The Book of Psalms is so long that it is divided up into five smaller books.This is where Book One ends and Book Two begins.However, the familiar themes of God as a rock and refuge continue, and the spirit of David looms large as both author and inspirer of many of the songs.However, the tone is notably darker and gloomier in Book Two, as praise makes way for lament.Join us as we continue through the Jews' ancient but enduring songbook.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Aul...
A betrayal: ruthless witnesses coming forward; accusations, people repaying good deeds with evil ones. Prayers unanswered, enemies laughing, and slander that appeared never to end. At what point will God intervene? David asks.These are some of the darkest verses in the Book of Psalms, and some of the most beautiful. Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music(birdsong accidental)Cover art by Lisa Goff
Hate one another is not a verse you'll find in the Bible but this particular four letter word raises its head in the Book of Psalms.Join us as we navigate our slow moving tourbus through the Bible's longest book and into what seem like stormy waters.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
The Jews' songbook continues.Join us as we travel through this richly poetic literature, much of it believed to be written by Israel's king David - or his more than able ghostwriter.What we lose in story or plot twists, we gain in deeply felt emotion as a man bares his heart before God.These are songs that sing to their own tune.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
By far the most famous Psalm and one of the standout passages in the Bible, the shepherd who leads his sheep into green pastures has inspired writers, artists and musicians throughout the ages.It is just one of the beautiful poems you'll encounter in this podcast.Travel with us as we continue our journey through the Jews' epic songbook.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
Join me on my audacious attempt to narrate the entirety of the Bible, roughly 20 minutes at a time. I do my best to keep it secular; this podcast is aimed at people who might never open a Bible, but who feel that it is too important book not to have a working knowledge of.We're making headway into the Bible's longest book, the Book of Psalms, which is effectively an anthology of 150 hymns.Trust me, it's a lot more interesting than it sounds!Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by M...
The fearless bravado of the young Bethlehem shepherd has long gone. Now he is Israel's king, David has to face threats far more personally draining that that of either the giant Philistine, Goliath or the lions who preyed on his father's sheep.In these songs, David seems worn down by the stress of being Israel's king, and feels threatened from every side. Yet he knows to cry out to God, and genuinely believes that God can and will rescue him form whatever perilous situation he finds himself in.
Adoration, schadenfreude, vindication and hate take centre stage in these songs purported to have been written by shepherd turned giant killer turned king of Israel, David.The king remained close to God for his entire life, and his devout petitions have helped shape how countess Christians and Jews still view God today.
Cancelled.It's easy to think of this as a 21st century phenomenon, but three millennia ago, David is deeply concerned about reputational damage.These songs speak of the king's desire for peace, his distress and his need for healing, but most of all they demonstrate his deep need for - and love of God.What's more, these psalms demonstrate remarkable humility for a proven military conqueror and one of the most powerful kings in the ancient Near East.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by...
The poetry continues as we embark on a journey through the Bible's songbook.The Book of Psalms is an epic collection of ancient, beautiful poems in which the writers cry out to God for help, profess their love for God, marvel at his creative power and generally eulogise about him, his temple, his kings and his sheer awe-inspiring majesty.Its 150 songs make the Book of Psalms the Bible's longest book, but they also contain some of its finest literature and most heartfelt writing. The Book...
Once Job's friend Elihu has wrapped up, it's time for one of the only two people who actually know the truth behind Job's suffering to step up.Having begged for an audience with God and having been ridiculed for seeing himself as worthy of a tribunal with God, God himself joins in the conversation.Prepare to meet two of the Bible's most fearsome creatures as he does so.The Book of Job is coming in to landWritten and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art...
Having seen Job go through the rounds with three of his friends, readers now have a "wait, what?" moment as a fourth man steps up, having witnessed the entire conversation so far. This man is Elihu, and until now, his youth has prevented him from speaking. Now however, he's had enough of Job's nonsense and proves that age - or lack of it is no guarantor that you will get to the truth.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
Tired of hearing his friends' near endless tirade against him, Job launches into a monologue that charts the depths of his distress. It's less a defence and more a wistful look back at how wonderful life was before tragedy struck. Meanwhile God seems utterly indifferent and leaves Job with no answers as to why his life has taken such a dramatic U turn.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
The suffering of Job simply does not add up for his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar.Despite what they know of Job from their own experience, their brains simply cannot compute that he might be innocent.Even when Job points out the very obvious fact that God allows many evil people to thrive, his friends maintain their unswervable position that his suffering has been brought on himself by some terrible misdeed.And so it goes on, with readers knowing what they don't - that Job i...
Job is utterly bewildered.His friends are convinced that he has done something dreadful to warrant so much suffering.He knows that he hasn't, and simply wants a hearing with God.This opens a can of worms.Is Job, a mere human, claiming that God has made a mistake?Listeners feel especially smug knowing that all parties are wrong.Job hasn't sinned, at least no more than the average person.And God hasn't made a mistake, he's simply playing a game.Schadenfreude is set to high as Job's friend...
A man sits in rags while his woulds fester.Three of his friends sit with him, explaining to him why he is suffering.It is crystal clear to them: his suffering is a punishment from God, and because the suffering is severe, so must be the sin that he is being punished for.What none of tyhem know is that Job is the subject of a game that is being played in the heavenly realm by God and the Devil.His suffering is to prove to the Devil that nothing will make Job lose his faith in God.Like three me...
Job is a good man.He enjoys a prosperous life.He worships God.The Devil is confident that Job's faith is paper thin and that a bit of adversity will soon have him rejecting God.God takes the opposite position and so the experiment slash wager begins.With his skin itching and sore, all his material wealth gone and his children dead, Job must now endure the "wisdom" of three of his friends, each of whom claims to know exactly why he is suffering, without any self realisation that they are each ...
In one of the most extraordinary gambits in the Bible, and possibly in the whole of literature, God and the Devil have a wager over the virtue of one man, a farmer named Job.Now synonymous with suffering, Job endures both terrible harships and the judgemental pontification of some of his closest friends.This is where the history section of the Bible ends and the poetry begins and the Devil is about to approach God with a proposal.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and ...
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