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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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194:The Parents Who Ate Their Children (Lamentations...

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2026/02/24

Trigger Warning: Contains reference to infant death The 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 a city under siege. With the horror of his situation all around him, he composes without doubt the bleakest chapter in the entire Bible. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover art by Lisa Goff Send any commen...

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193: The City That Died (Lamentations 1-2)

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2026/02/17

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 living through these sieges are hard to imagine, but readers don't need to use their imagination. They have the poet or poets who lived through these terrible years and saw the horror with their own eyes. If Jeremiah's book ended bleakly, Lamentations takes that desolation ano...

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192: The War Club (Jeremiah 51-52)

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2026/02/10

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 Babylon as a useful agent to annihilate Judah, and his people may have needed to learn the heard way that they must not worship other deities, but destroying God's people and desecrating his temple comes at a price. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music ...

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191: Run! (Jeremiah 49-50)

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2026/02/03

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 Babylon. Yet Jeremiah promises that the mighty, all-conquering Babylonian Empire which dominates the Near East from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean and south to the Egyptian border will one day be reduced to rubble and dust. Even more unbelievably, less than sev...

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190: Blind Panic (Jeremiah 48-49)

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2026/01/27

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 telling, and the language used by the prophet to describe their downfall is dramatic. They won't be crowing at Judah's downfall for long, Jeremiah promises, they'll be too busy fleeing the ruins of their own shattered countries Written and produced by Ch...

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189: Cakes for the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 45-47)

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2026/01/20

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 happen to these renegades, and why. Surprisingly, it isn't just Judah who receives a kicking from God. He's about to call time on all neighbouring countries, none of which will survive the Babylonian onslaught.

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188: Blinded and Burned (Jeremiah 39-43)

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2026/01/13

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, Judah appears to have any number of clowns to drop it, even after the nation has fallen to Babylon. You can almost see Jeremiah clutching his head in despair, and its no wonder they call him the weeping prophet. In Judah, there is plenty to weep about. Written and pr...

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187: Left for Dead (Jeremiah 35-38)

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2026/01/06

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 the prophet now being a jail cell. Worse still, the book which he and his scribe Baruch have so painstakingly put together has fallen into enemy hands. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover art by Lisa Goff S...

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186: The Deal (Jeremiah 32-34)

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2025/12/30

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 there is madness in the Bible, there is method. Better still, everyone learns a little bit about 6th century BC real estate deals. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover art by Lisa Goff Send any comments or feedback to cont...

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185: Rogue Nation (Jeremiah 30-31)

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2025/12/23

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 this, he looks ahead to a time when his people will have a new king, a man who seems not a million miles away from Jesus Christ. As far as Bible pages go, these are big ones. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music ...

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184: The Lie (Jeremiah 26-29)

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2025/12/16

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 that theatre can provide a teachable moment. And so papyrus, ink, scales for weighing silver, sealing wax and witnesses are brought to the prophet's cell.

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183: Maddening WIne (Jeremiah 23-26)

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2025/12/09

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. Expect another lively episode from the Bible's most down-at-mouth prophet as Jeremiah continues to rage at a people who don't want to hear. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover art by Lisa Goff Send any commen...

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182: Oblivion (Jeremiah 21-23)

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2025/12/02

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 Bible tells its readers, was founded by God. Turning away from him is seen as an act of rebellion, and rebels must be punished. The question is, will Judah's kings listen? And if the ship can still be saved, who will do it, and how? Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Musi...

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181: Cancelled (Jeremiah 17-20)

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2025/11/25

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 been murdered. Despite this, he continues haranguing Judah's great and good, even taking them on a field trip to a rubbish tip. Speaking out against Judah's love affair with pagan gods is a tough job, but someone has to do it, even if it does mean ridicule and ...

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180: The Widowmaker (Jeremiah 14-17)

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2025/11/18

What a mess. Judah's people are being assured by their prophets - holy men who should know better - that all will be well. Business as usual will win the day, they say, even if that business is worshipping pagan deities rather than capital G God. Jeremiah warns these bogus seers that they will die in the disasters which they have promised their people will never happen. Unsurprisingly, he is in for a tough ride, but in taking one for the team, Jeremiah is able to write a fabulous account of...

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179: Smashed (Jeremiah 11-13)

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2025/11/11

The warnings to Judah's people continue. Rogue shepherds will trample its vineyards, turning pleasant pasture into parched and desolate wasteland because there is no one left to care about it or take care for it. These shepherds are Babylon's armies which arrive decades after Jeremiah is writing. There is still time to turn the ship around, but no one appears to be listening. If they are, they don't take Jeremiah seriously. He is a ranting holy man, and they have plenty of sane prophets tel...

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178: Ghost Town (Jeremiah 8-10)

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2025/11/04

The slow tour through the Bible's longest book (by word count) continues. Standing at the entrance to Jerusalem's temple, Jeremiah accuses the nation's Jews of simply paying lip service to worshipping God. These people are so convinced that their Jewishness alone will rescue them that they are happy hedging their bets by worshipping lots of other gods. God however, is a fan of exclusivity, and the price for Judah's people not giving him their undivided adoration is a costly one. Writt...

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177: The Valley of Slaughter (Jeremiah 5-7)

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2025/10/28

There's no telling some people. Judah's Jews assume that they have a free pass when it comes to enjoying the good life. Simply because of an accident of birth and their ethnicity, they feel that God will turn a blind eye to the fact that they have wholeheartedly abandoned him, choosing instead to immerse themselves in pagan religion. Jeremiah has news for these people, and as the title of this podcast suggests, it's not especially good... Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Micae...

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176: The Lustful and the Lost (Jeremiah 3-5)

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2025/10/21

It's not easy being an Old Testament prophet. Jeremiah describes the feeling of being stabbed in the heart and writhing in pain. His compatriots seem not only content to turn their backs on God - the 'Big I Am' believed to have set the universe in motion - they are hedging their bets with every other deity then can grab hold of. The prophet describes his people as lusty stallions and adulterous men fired up over other men's wives. It's lurid, but Jeremiah doesn't baulk at telling it how he se...

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175: Skullcracker (Jeremiah 1-3)

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2025/10/14

A sex worker waiting by the road for hook-ups A young camel so on heat she doesn't even need chasing. Such is the out of control idolatry of the nation of Judah. Yet one holy man can see the writing on the wall and is is tasked with warning his people before it's too late and God calls time on their nation. That man is Jeremiah. Join us as Season 20 begins. Written and produced by Chas Bayfield Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music Cover Art by Lisa Goff Send comments and feedba...

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