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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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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 ...
This has to be the Bible's greatest moment of schadenfreude.A man intent on genocide realises that the person who he believes is one of his closest allies is actually part of the ethnic group who he wants to cleanse.Furious back-pedalling ensues, vengeance is dealt and what might have been the darkest day in Jewish history is averted thanks to the bravery and cool-headedness of a single Jewish woman.Is the Book of Esther the Bible's most page turning book? It has to be up there.Enjoy the finale.
From the pampered luxury of Persia's royal harem to a life or death encounter with the world's most powerful man.It's incredible that Shakespeare didn't write a play about Esther, the characters are so vivid. Then again, he didn't need to as the story is already told so well.Esther, the beautiful queen, ensconced in the harem.Mordecai, who directs the action from the palace gates.Haman the scheming villain who has the king's ear.Xerxes, the king who is duped into sanctioning a holocaust.But w...
You're king of one of the largest empires ever amassed.You're hosting a banquet for the governors of all your territories.And you want your queen to make an appearance.She feels that she is only being paraded in front of the men as a trophy, and refuses.The stage is set for one of the Bible's most remarkable stories, a literal rags to riches fairy tale with enough grit and gore to make it a genuine page turner.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCov...
The Jews may be back in Jerusalem but things are far from rosy.Nehemiah wades in like a teacher in an unruly classroom, desperate to create order and restore a level of godliness as Judah is resettled.His concern is that this is the Jews' last chance to get things right with God, and so they should avoid any of the behaviours that led to them being captured and exiled in the past.It's more talk than action, with plenty of lists and laws as Nehemiah attempts to tighten up the slack and inspire...
Jerusalem's wall may be rebuilt but Nehemiah's problems are far from over.There are people in his midst who are happy to betray him.There are also people within Israel who are denying their fellow citizens human rights, and who seem happy to exploit tose less well off than them.It's time to go back to basics. To reboot the nation spiritually as well as physically.It makes life harder for Nehemiah but having started the project, the cupbearer to the King of Persia seems determined to fini...
A refined member of the Persian royal court plans a remarkable restoration project in his Jerusalem homeland.Without a building qualification to his name, Nehemiah becomes cheerleader for one of the greatest construction projects in the Bible, the rebuilding of Jerusalem's curtain wall.But before he can execute a project as near impossible as this one, he needs to pull off another near impossible task: getting Persia's king to let him go. Nehemiah's is a fabulous story, and it begi...
The embattled returnees discover that rebuilding their temple is fraught with opposition. Like modern day battles about planning permission and with much resistance from hostile locals who moved into the region while the Jews were in exile in Persia, a letter is sent to Persia's king. Jerusalem is in his jurisdiction and so Artaxerxes has the final say on whether the city gets a new temple. The bigger question for Ezra however, is whether his people are living according to God's rules. Withou...
Told differently to a different audience, the utter collapse of Judah's monarchy, its principal city and its temple still hits home.Its kings deposed or captured, the survivors are dragged to Babylon where they languish in exile for the next seven decades.A ragged bunch of survivors eventually makes it home to the wasteland that was once Jerusalem, and these are this book's original readers.Awful though the events were, the Jews are now in no doubt that obeying God in the new Israel is ...
The propaganda machine continues apace.In this episode, one of Judah's most virtuous kings, Hezekiah, reinstates the religious calendar and celebrates Passover. Then his son Manasseh, the nation's most wretched and evil ruler is given a moral makeover after and leaves the Bible both reformed and forgiven. The end destination of absolute destruction for Judah is still the same, but for those Jews who were the Books of Chronicles' first audience, it will have been an absolute cliffhan...
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