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.
Episodes
211 episodes
205: Dem Bones (Ezekiel 34-37)
The toe bon'e sconnectoed to thefoot bone.The foot bone's connected to theheel boneIn one of the most famous passages from the Old Testament, the prophet Ezekiel sees a valley strewn with dry bones. Bones...
204: A Bed Among the Slain (Ezekiel 32-34)
The day before a messenger arrives in Babylon with news that the mighty city of God, Jerusalem has fallen, Ezekiel tells the exiled Jews that it will fall.As if this weren't amazing enough, he shares the astonishing news that ...
203: A Time of Doom (Ezekiel 28-31)
These chapters of Ezekiel are some of the least read - and least quoted - in the Bible.One by one, the prophet takes nations and city states surrounding the kingdom of Judah and describes what calamities will befall them and why.I...
202: The Lost Kingdom (Ezekiel 25-28)
Judah's people me be about to meet with catastrophe, but neighbouring nations will also be on the receiving end of a kicking, they are told.Ammon, Edom and Tyre all receive dire storm warnings from the prophet Ezekiel.Though none ...
201: Two Whores (Ezekiel 23-24)
This is one of the most remarkable set of chapters in the entire Bible. And that's a Bible that includes the creation of the earth, a boat filled with animals, a man swallowed by a giant fish and a man who comes back to l...
200: The Slasher (Ezekiel 20-22)
“A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin!” Ezekiel shouts at Israel's Jews.These, he says, are God's words, not his own, adding:"I will gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you."...
199: The Maneater (Ezekiel 17-20)
More florid description pours fom the pen of the prophet Ezekiel.Vines, lions and the perfect man all take centre stage in an episode where, through Ezekiel, God hammers home the truth that everyone is responsible for their own spiritual...
198: The Nymphomaniac (Ezekiel 14-16)
Surprisingly for an episode entitled 'The Nymphomaniac', this really is about a nymphomaniac. or a metaphorical one at least.God is so angry at his people's rebellion against him that he orders his prophet to explain in colourful languag...
197: The Cull (Ezekiel 9-13)
In a vision that will have shocked those who first heard it, Ezekiel sees God leaving the Holy of Holies. This is the sacred room in the Jerusalem temple which is believed to have been God's earthly HQ since Solomon completed the building 400 y...
196: Pant-wetting Fear (Ezekiel 5-8)
If Jerusalem's elders weren't fully aware of what awaits their city, their nation and thei people as a result of turning away from God and worshiping pagan idols, they are now.In a dramatic vision, the prophet Ezekiel is telep...
195: The UFO (Ezekiel 1-4)
Ezekiel's vision at the beginning of his book is so other-worldly that he barely has words to describe it.What follows is a dramatic life change for a man who has already been wrenched from the comfort of priestly life at the Jerusalem t...
194:The Parents Who Ate Their Children (Lamentations 3-5)
Trigger Warning: Contains reference to infant deathThe Bible's darkest book just got darker.The fourth chapter of the Book of Lamentations makes for some harrowing reading as the writer is caught up in the wretched, slow death of ...
193: The City That Died (Lamentations 1-2)
Trigger warning: This episode includes accounts of infant death In 597 BC, the city of Babylon was besieged.Eleven years later, Nebuchadnezzar II's army returned and laid siege to it once again.The privations of...
192: The War Club (Jeremiah 51-52)
With an ending shrouded in mystery, the finale of Jeremiah's book asks more than it answers.What is certain - at least from the prophet's perspective - is that the Babylonian Empire is going to crash and burn.God may have used Bab...
191: Run! (Jeremiah 49-50)
To his audience, the prophet Jeremiah's words must seem beyond belief.The city of Jerusalem has been battered and besieged, its king has no real authority to rule, and its greatest and best people have been hauled away to exile in Babylo...
190: Blind Panic (Jeremiah 48-49)
After more than forty chapters where it is Judah who is in God's crosshairs, it's refreshing to see that a few other Near Eastern Nations will also be on the receiving end of a kicking.None of these countries exist any more, which is tel...
189: Cakes for the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 45-47)
After most of Judah's Jews have been exiled to Babylon, the few who remain have rebelled, opting to settle in Egypt rather than follow their compatriots east.According to God, this is a terrible life choice, and he spells out what will h...
188: Blinded and Burned (Jeremiah 39-43)
Finally! Some action.Jeremiah reports from the front line of the siege as Judah's renegade king bolts for freedom.Reprisals follow, some especially grisly, but the drama doesn't end there.Where there is a ball to be dropped...
187: Left for Dead (Jeremiah 35-38)
In a ceasefire, Jeremiah heads off to claim the field he has recently bought - and is arrested on suspicion of deserting to the Babylonians.His love-hate relationship with Judah's reckless puppet king, Zedekiah continues, with home for t...
186: The Deal (Jeremiah 32-34)
The last thing most people would do as an enemy invades their land is buy property.And given that no defeated nation ever gets its land back, this appears to be throwing money away.Or in other words, madness.Often when ther...
185: Rogue Nation (Jeremiah 30-31)
No captured city in the Ancient Near East has ever been repopulated by its own people.This kind of thing simply does not happen, and so to promise it appears to be madness.Jeremiah is not only confident that God is planning to do ...
184: The Lie (Jeremiah 26-29)
The last thing a prisoner in the ancient Near East is expected to do is buy land.Especially when that land is currently being trampled by enemy armies.Who might kill him.Jeremiah's book is all about theatre, especially if t...
183: Maddening WIne (Jeremiah 23-26)
An apocalyptic storm “from the ends of the earth” is coming, one that will see Near Eastern nations toppling like dominos.Everywhere, the corpses of God’s enemies will lie unburied and unmourned, littering the ground like dung. ...
182: Oblivion (Jeremiah 21-23)
O land, land land!It's a pitiful lament from the prophet Jeremiah as he attempts to rescue the nation he loves.No one in power or authority appears to see the danger of worshipping pagan gods in a country which, the Bib...
181: Cancelled (Jeremiah 17-20)
The human cost of being God's mesenger is spelled out in graphic detail in this episode.Jeremiah feels gerrymandered into being a prophet, and even wishes that the man who brought his father the supposedly joyful news of his birth had be...
