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
218 episodes
212: Terror Angel (Daniel 9-11)
Now an old man, the prophet Daniel is blindsided by a terrifying angelic visitor as he stands by a Persian river. The angel delivers a bewildering message that maps geopolitical developments in the Ancient Near East. If the message w...
211: The Death Cats (Daniel 6-8)
In one of the most famous stories in the Bible, if not literature, a Jewish exile from Judah who has risen to power in the Babylonian regime is thrown into a pit filled with ravenous lions. Written and produced...
210: The Incinerator (Daniel 3-5)
When Babylon's tyrannical king, Nebuchadnezzar erects a giant golden effigy and expects everyone in his kingdom to worship it, there is pushback, especially from Daniel's companions from Judah, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo. Threat...
209: The Necromancers (Daniel 1-2)
The last of the great prophecty books begins.With its pin sharp predictions and epic action sequences, Daniel's book has transcended the Bible. The man thrown to the lions has long been part of popular culture, but there is fa...
208: The Impossible River (Ezekiel 43-48)
Having spent multiple chapters taking down notes for the design of Jerusalem's new temple, Ezekiel sees a dramatic vision of a great river flowing from beneath the building.A river so fast and wide that after less than a mile,...
207: Return of the King (Ezekiel 42-44)
Bible experts have long been confused as to why the chapters at the end of the Book of Ezekiel go into such granular detail about a building which, over 2500 years later, has yet to be constructed.It's one of the marvels of the Bible...
206: You Will Eat Flesh and Drink Blood (Ezekiel 38-41)
After detailing a formidable future enemy of Israel whose ultimate and catastrophic defeat will demonstrate God's power, Ezekiel's book segues into design specifications for a future Jerusalem temple.If ever a book in the Bible sung to i...
205: Dem Bones (Ezekiel 34-37)
The toe bone's connected 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...
