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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

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108: The Game. (Job 1-5)

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2024/07/02

In one of the most extraordinary gambits in the Bible, and possibly in the whole of literature, God and the Devil have a wager over the virtue of one man, a farmer named Job.Now synonymous with suffering, Job endures both terrible harships and the judgemental pontification of some of his closest friends.This is where the history section of the Bible ends and the poetry begins and the Devil is about to approach God with a proposal.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and ...

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107: A Day of Rage (Esther 6-10)

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2024/06/25

This has to be the Bible's greatest moment of schadenfreude.A man intent on genocide realises that the person who he believes is one of his closest allies is actually part of the ethnic group who he wants to cleanse.Furious back-pedalling ensues, vengeance is dealt and what might have been the darkest day in Jewish history is averted thanks to the bravery and cool-headedness of a single Jewish woman.Is the Book of Esther the Bible's most page turning book? It has to be up there.Enjoy the finale.

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106: The Impaler (Esther 2-6)

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2024/06/18

From the pampered luxury of Persia's royal harem to a life or death encounter with the world's most powerful man.It's incredible that Shakespeare didn't write a play about Esther, the characters are so vivid. Then again, he didn't need to as the story is already told so well.Esther, the beautiful queen, ensconced in the harem.Mordecai, who directs the action from the palace gates.Haman the scheming villain who has the king's ear.Xerxes, the king who is duped into sanctioning a holocaust.But w...

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105: The Queen Who Said No (Esther 1-2)

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2024/06/11

You're king of one of the largest empires ever amassed.You're hosting a banquet for the governors of all your territories.And you want your queen to make an appearance.She feels that she is only being paraded in front of the men as a trophy, and refuses.The stage is set for one of the Bible's most remarkable stories, a literal rags to riches fairy tale with enough grit and gore to make it a genuine page turner.Written and produced by Chas BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCov...

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104: Ritual and Rage (Nehemiah 9-13)

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2024/06/04

The Jews may be back in Jerusalem but things are far from rosy.Nehemiah wades in like a teacher in an unruly classroom, desperate to create order and restore a level of godliness as Judah is resettled.His concern is that this is the Jews' last chance to get things right with God, and so they should avoid any of the behaviours that led to them being captured and exiled in the past.It's more talk than action, with plenty of lists and laws as Nehemiah attempts to tighten up the slack and inspire...

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Episode 103: The Sharks

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2024/05/28

Jerusalem's wall may be rebuilt but Nehemiah's problems are far from over.There are people in his midst who are happy to betray him.There are also people within Israel who are denying their fellow citizens human rights, and who seem happy to exploit tose less well off than them.It's time to go back to basics. To reboot the nation spiritually as well as physically.It makes life harder for Nehemiah but having started the project, the cupbearer to the King of Persia seems determined to fini...

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Episode 102: The Dung Gate and the Jackal's Well

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2024/05/21

A refined member of the Persian royal court plans a remarkable restoration project in his Jerusalem homeland.Without a building qualification to his name, Nehemiah becomes cheerleader for one of the greatest construction projects in the Bible, the rebuilding of Jerusalem's curtain wall.But before he can execute a project as near impossible as this one, he needs to pull off another near impossible task: getting Persia's king to let him go. Nehemiah's is a fabulous story, and it begi...

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Episode 101: The Man who Tore out his Beard

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2024/05/14

The embattled returnees discover that rebuilding their temple is fraught with opposition. Like modern day battles about planning permission and with much resistance from hostile locals who moved into the region while the Jews were in exile in Persia, a letter is sent to Persia's king. Jerusalem is in his jurisdiction and so Artaxerxes has the final say on whether the city gets a new temple. The bigger question for Ezra however, is whether his people are living according to God's rules. Withou...

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Episode 100: Weeping and Whooping

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2024/05/07

Episode 100!I need to say that again.Episode 100!Almost two years into the journey and we're still only 15 books into the 66 book epic that is the Bible.Still, why rush. You see a lot more from a slower bus.You join us at the start of the Book of Ezra, an exiled Jew who has returned to Jerusalem to rebuild its temple, a project that is not without its obstacles.Fun fact: Ezra probably also wrote the Books of Kings and Chronicles.Chapters covered: Ezra 1-4Written and produced by Chas Bay...

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Episode 99: The Few

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2024/04/30

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Episode 98: The Pious and the Proud

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2024/04/23

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Episode 97: Rampage

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2024/04/16

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Episode 96: Jezebel's Daughter

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2024/04/09

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Episode 95: The Glorious and the Golden

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2024/04/02

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Episode 94: Spin

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2024/03/26

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Episode 93: The Golden King

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2024/03/19

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Episode 92: The Broken and the Blind

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2024/03/12

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Episode 91: The Death Angel

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2024/03/05

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Episode 90: I Know Where You Are

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2024/02/27

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Episode 89: The Leper King

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2024/02/20

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