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
228 episodes
221: Terror on the Mountain (Amos 9, Obadiah 1)
As Amos' book ends, Israel's renegade Jews are told there is nowhere to hide. God will send a monster to hunt them out of the sea, he will smoke them out of mountain caves and snatch them out of the sky.Attention then turns to the prophe...
220: Darkness at Noon (Amos 5-8)
In a morally bankrupt Israel, a priest orders the shepherd-prophet Amos to take his message of doom back to Judah.“Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there,” he tells him.The man sees Amos' words as counter-cultural and...
219: Naked Soldiers (Amos 2-5)
“The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life.The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away, and the horseman will not save his lif...
218: The Stench (Joel 2-4, Amos 1)
The land may have ben scourged by a locust swarm but punishment will not last, the prophet Joel says.God will drive the hordes or insects into the Dead Sea and wine will flow from Israel's mountains.The shepherd Amos then takes th...
Israel Palestine Special
Given how central Israel is to the Bible, it seems at best avoidant to not attempt to put this ancient nation - and its present day iteration - in context.No politics or agenda, just a bit of history that allows listeners to u...
217: Black Dawn (Hosea 12-14, Joel 1-2)
It's n0t too late for Israel's Jews to turn back to God and abandon the idols and other pagan deities who they have been worshipping themselves.To help them reach that decision, Hosea paints a terrifying future wher...
216: The Slayer (Hosea 9-12)
If the Old Testament prophet Hosea is known for anything, it is because God orders him to marry a "promiscuous woman".And though this action dominates the early part of Hosea's book, it is not even referred to in the later cha...
215: The Murder Priests (Hosea 5-9)
The narrative moves on from Hosea and his promiscuous wife to a full on diatribe against Israel.The nation is ruled by adulterers whose sins burn like an oven so hot that it doesn't need stoking for over two hours.God is fur...
214: The Whore Wife (Hosea 1-4)
A man is told by God to find himself a promiscuous woman as a wife. Not only that, he names their children as warnings to wayward Israel. This isn't the kind of story that springs to mind when people think of the Bible, but here at Wholly Buyab...
213: The Abomination (Daniel 11-12)
The prophet Daniel receives an epic account of the future from a terrifying angel. Detailed predictions spanning centuries of Near Eastern history pour from the angel's mouth, and incredibly, almost every one of these can be mapped against real...
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...
