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
134: Dead Man Walking (Psalms 85-89)
The Psalms is not a book you can rush.
These poems pack an even greater punch when you stop to inspect them more closely.
If you're not religious and just want a better handle on what is in between the leatherette cover of a Bible, you've found your happy place.
We're currently sailing through the Book of Psalms, the ancient Jewish songs that not only accompanied worship in Jerusalem's temple, but which have encouraged believers for millennia.
If nothing else, you'll leave this podcast far better informed about Psalms 85-89 than almost everyone you know.
See you on the other side!
Written and produced by Chas Bayfield
Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music
Cover art by Lisa Goff