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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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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 cliffhanger.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michaael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
If nothing else, the account of the Kings of Judah who rule after David and Solomon shows a fascinating range of personalities, from psychopath to narcissist to saint, and pretty much everything in between.Given that rule one in Judah's monarchy, and in daily life for every Jew is to put God first, an amazing number of the nation's kings fail to do this.The question is, do Judah's godly kings do enough to pull the nation over he line and rescue it from destruction?Regular listeners will have heard the previous account of these events in the Books of Kings and know that the answer is an emphatic no.Still, it does make for a fascinating read.Chapters covered: 2 Chronicles 25-31Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
To see the Books of Chronicles as a rehash of the Books of Samuel and Kings is to do them a disservice. It's actually the same events seen through a different lens, and these events are some of the most thrilling in the Bible - epic battles, assassinations, heroic act of rescue and grisly deaths from disease. But there are also unique events which only exist in Chronicles which add to and enrich the story. That said, one fact doesn't change. Thanks to a series of godless kings, Judah continues to spiral into spiritual oblivion. The catastrophe continues here.Chapters covered: 2 Chronicles 14-24Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
After eulogising about King David for an entire book, the Chronicler now turns his attention to David's son, Solomon and Solomon's son, Rehoboam.The elephant in the room that is the almost complete collapse of Israel that happens on Rehoboam's watch is fabulously airbrushed out. Including it doesn't help the agenda of this book which is to make the newly returned exiles from Persia to feel good about their nation and to be motivated to rebuild it.Enjoy the spin.Chapters covered: 2 Chronicles 1-13Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
I'll be honest, the Books of Chronicles are no one's go-to place for encouragement and spiritual succour.Mostly a repetition of the Books of Samuel and Kings, there is little new material and a lot of pro monarchist propaganda.However, there are unique passages and in this one, David lays out his vision for Jerusalem's first temple and encourages his son Solomon to be the godly king that Israel needs.Chapters covered: 1 Chronicles 17-29.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and John Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
Not many books have the audacity to stop in the middle of the action, go back and retell exactly the same thing, but the Bible is no ordinary book. Spun for a new generation of Jews who are struggling to rebuild their nation after returning from exile, the writer of Chronicles cherry picks history. His people need building up, not reminding of what a shocking mess they and their kings made of their country.Chapters covered: 1 Chronicles 1-16.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and John Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
Judah has one last roll of the dice.After the appalling, godless reign of Manasseh, Josiah is a complete saint.But are his virtue and his religious reforms enough to turn the ship around and avoid annihilatioon by Babylon?Will Judah survive agains almost impossible odds?It's time for Josiah's sons to take the wheel and lead their nation into either gory or oblivion.This is the Second Book of Kings dramatic season finale.Chapters covered: 2 Kings 23-25Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffConversions:280 miles = 450km27 feet = 8.2m
Terrified that Jerusalem will fall, one of Judah's holiest kings, Hezekiah seeks the help of the holiest man he knows, the prophet Isaiah. The result is one of the biggest acts of carnage in the Bible.However, Hezekiah's son Manasseh is an absolute horror show, a man who thinks nothing of sacrificing his own children, and it is left to Israel's final devout king, Josiah to try and bring his nation back from the edge of oblivion.Chapters covered: 2 Kings 19-23Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
After centuries of autonomy and nineteen almost exclusively godless kings, God calls time on the northern kingdom of Israel.Meanwhile, an Assyrian force threatens the southern and much smaller kingdom of Judah.Is God about to call time on his chosen people and write the whole project off as an experiment that went badly wrong? Or is there still some fuel left in the tank, a shred of hope that they might overcome the overwhelming threat at Jerusalem's gate?Chapters covered: 2 Kings 17-19Bible used: New International Version, UK edition.Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover Art by Lisa Goff
Rogue monarchs, assassins, war and intrigue.The Bible continues to toggle between the nation of Judah to the south and Israel to the north as the spiritual needle moves further away from God and edges ever closer to outright paganism.With the Jerusalem temple now seen by Judah's kings as an exercise in architecture and interior design, the outlook for the nation has never been bleaker.Chapters covered: 2 Kings 14-16Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
They don't call it the greatest story ever told for no reason. This is without doubt one of my favourite episodes in the entire Bible. At incredible personal risk, a teenage girl saves the royal bloodline by hiding her tiny nephew away, Ann Frank-style, under the radar of her psychopathic and homicidal queen. In doing so, she allows the continuation of David's line which, the Bible tells its readers, ultimately includes Jesus Christ. Cometh the hour, cometh the woman, Why she isn't more famous is a whole other question. Chapters covered: 2 Kings 11-13 Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover art by Lisa Goff
As grisly an episode as it sounds.Blood and gore abound as the Second Book of Kings goes full throttle on schadenfreude.It's not a good time to be a king or queen of Israel or Judah, or evena friend of=r relative, particularly not a pagan one.A violent end is coming and the Bible doesn't hold back.A warrior is coming.Chapters covered: 2 Kings 8-10Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
Elisha continues to pull off some of the Bible's most extraordinary miracles - one of these is the kind of showstopper that only Jesus might attempt.From lowly holy men to foreign dignitaries, the miraculous makeovers show no favouritism.However, Elisha's servant is less of a saint than his master. His head is turned and his fall is mighty.Chapters covered: 2 Kings 4-6Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffConversions:17 miles = 27km728 lb = 330kg146 lb = 66kg73 lb = 33kg
Seson 11 begins.When a king of Israel decides to consult a pagan deity to see whether he will recover from an accident, the Jewish prophet Elijah steps in with dramatic effect.Elijah then departs the earth in spectacular fashion leaving his protégé, Elisha to steer Israel back towards some form of godliness.It's an uphill battle. Israel's kings seem genetically conditioned to worship pagan gods, but thanks to Elisha's spectaculafr intervention, one particular battle does go Israel's way. Chapters covered: 2 Kings 1-4
Jezebel proves her creds as Israel's most evil queen when she plots to kill a nighbour just because she covets his vineyard.Then Ahab ignores a prophet's dire warning that he will die in battle because he has a plan that will help him evade death - he will wear a disguise...Without giving too much away, the First Book of Kings does not end well for Israel's royal family.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 21-22Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
On the run from his homicidal queen, the prophet Elijah is given a heads up by God as to how things are about to play out.Israel may be an ungodly nation but its king, Ahab is given an opportunity to see God in action when his meagre fighting force goes into battle against a vastly superior enemy.However, the king's inability to follow actions and his queen's greed prove to be their undoing.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 19-21Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffSnakes and Angels, a Secular Walk through the First Five Books of the Bible is available here: https://shorturl.at/rvJZ3
As Israel spirals into paganism, a new hope rises in the shape of a Jedi-like holy man, Elijah.Elijah's showdown against the shamans sponsored by Israel's evil queen, Jezebel is one of the most dramatic in the Bible.Without giving away any plot spoilers, it's quite a show.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 15-18Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic my Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
The Kingdom of Israel has split into two.Judah is tiny but retains Jerusalem and its temple, and a dynasty descended from David.Israel is vast in comparison but in separating from Judah, it appears to have also separated itself from God.In these chapters, Israel enters a kind of death spiral from which it seems impossible to pull out, while Judah just about clings on.However, this nation seems one godless - or childless - king away from ending the bloodline and cancelling the divine promise that a son of David will remain on his throne forever.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 13-15Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goff
It's fair to say Israel's King Solomon doesn't hold back when it comes to getting married.His enthusiasm for the opposite sex is legendary, as is his immense harem.However, according to the Bible this does not sit well with God, especially as some of Solomon's wives are from pagan nations, and the women prove as seductive as their religions. The seeds are sown for a complete unravelling of Solomon's kingdom, and within a few short chapters, Israel is in complete freefall.Enjoy the schadenfreude.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 11-13Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffX: Wholly Buyable Podcastcontact@whollybuyable.com
Solomon's reign is spectacular, if only for its opulence.Foreign rulers make pilgrimages just to marvel at the wealth and wisdom of Israel's king.But all is not golden in this particular kingdom.Solomon slowly begins to lose his grip on what being king of Israel actually means.His marriages are foreign alliances and he appears to be putting his faith in his own power rather than in God.In Bible terms, this is a huge red flag and by the end of his reign, the nation that looked so solid under the rule of David begins to crack.Chapters covered: 1 Kings 8-11Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa Goffcontact@whollybuyable.comX: Wholly Buyable PodcastConversions:4 tons = 4000kg13 tons = 14000kg18 miles = 30km2000miles = 3200km23tons = 20,865kg1.7tons = 1540kg
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