Wholly Buyable
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.
Wholly Buyable
86: The Woman who Ate her Son (2 Kings 6-8)
It's hard to imagine how awful life in a besieged city was in the ancient Near East.
As the title of this episode suggests, with no food, people resorted to desperate and degrading measures just to stay alive.
It os during such a siege that four men with an incurable skin disease find themselves at the centre of one of the most incredible yirnarounds in the Bible.
I think this little known episode from teh Second Book of Kings is one my favourite Bible stories.
Chapters covered: 2 Kings 6-8
Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff
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