The Old Testament like you’ve never heard it before. Using original translation from The Unauthorized Version.

The Old Testament like you’ve never heard it before. Using original translation from The Unauthorized Version.

The Old Testament like you’ve never heard it before. Using original translation from The Unauthorized Version.

The Old Testament like you’ve never heard it before. Using original translation from The Unauthorized Version.

Shorter episode in which the Bible Pirate returns to tell of shipwreck, chart the next voyage, and introduce the Advent Calendar. 

In which purity is set against hybrids, and we acknowledge our fear of the foreign. Stories of Tikka Masala, Brexit, migration, and the unexpected piracy of Yahweh.  

In which any dream might not quite do. Stories of slavery, famine and family, and a smoke-and-mirrors subversion to undermine racist empires who want to be great (again). 

In which Matt reads The Epic of Joseph, and the Sons of Israel (Genesis 37-50) from The Unauthorized Version, an original retranslation of the Bible into English. 

In which Abraham nearly sacrifices Isaac and the terrible conundrum of responsibility is exposed. Stories of death with Moses at a Parisian cafe inside the mind of Jacques Derrida. Recorded on the Armistice Centenary. 

In which Abraham, Isaac and Jacob plot the future, while children are taken from their parents by the state. Stories of promise and betrayal and the problem of living together.