• 48 minutes 9 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes - Lord Mackay, Bonnie Tyler; Anne Widdecombe; the World Cup and Spain

    This week we look at the murder of Anne Widdecombe; the death of Lord Mackay; the World Cup and religion; Norway v. England;  Are Argentina being supported by a Zionist plot? Are Brazil too evangelical?  Should Dundee have played Maccabi Haifa; Country of the week - Spain; Indonesia warns about LGBTQ culture; The UK Health Secretary now says that women can't have penises; the death and faith of Bonnie Tyler;  no. 1 guitarist - Mark Knopfler; Edinburgh ditches Knox's bonnet ceremony;  Kate Forbes at the ARC;  Jennifer Aniston on Religion; with music from Otis Redding;  Dire Straits; Bonnie Tyler; The Beatles; The Three Tenors; Lynard Skynard; Ruth Naomi Floyd

    14 July 2026, 10:36 am
  • 42 minutes 52 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 39 - Happy 250th Birthday America!

    This week we look at the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US - its culture, religion and population; Angela Mackenzie on the Founding Fathers;  Muslims at the World Cup; Trump's Red Card;  Taylor Swift's Marriage; German influence in the US;  Germany's sick economy;  NY Pride goes after Children; The BBC and Trans athletes in the US; Yanis Varoufakis on AI; Feedback; King Charles stops defending the faith;  Stephen Furtick preaches a different faith;  and the Final Word - Revelation 3:7-10. with music from. Jimi Hendrix; Simon and Garfunkel; Taylor Swift;  Duke Ellington;  BB King; Connie Francis; and the Mississippi Mass Choir 

    7 July 2026, 2:52 am
  • 50 minutes 46 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 38 - Earthquakes, Austria, Lara Bird-Leakey and Skillet

    This week we look at the Venezuelan earthquake; Ukraine war;  New York forgets 9/11; Religion and the World Cup; Country of the Week - Austria: Imam mob leader gets police award; Reem Alsalem, UN Raporteur does not believe all women; NSW education department want white men out of science; Pyra Lara Bird-Leakey and the new SNP; The National cancels Kate Forbes;  A new Bach song? ; Skillet's monster no 1 Christian song on Spotify; Eric Clapton - no.2 guitarist; Belgium goes nuclear;  EU Aircon for the bosses but not the workers; Feedback; Bishop of Manchester supports draconian anti-lgbt conversion therapy;  Geoffrey Donaldson;  and the Final Word - Rev 22:12-15 

    with music from Eric Clapton; Skillet;  Bach;  The Who; Strauss;  The Sound of Music; ACDC;  Johnny Cash.

    30 June 2026, 5:02 am
  • 54 minutes 44 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 37 - World Cup Songs, Japan, Humanism, the Grooming Gangs Report, Starbucks in South Korea, and Starmer

    In this weeks podcast we reflect on Keir Starmer, the Iran peace deal; Change in Colombia; Fauci lied about Covid; The UK grooming gangs report; Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why all cultures are not the same;  The World Cup - the nations of the world; Best fans of the world cup; Cape Verde; Country of the Week - Japan;  Ideologies that kill - Humanism; Pauline Hanson on abortion; Men in womens prisons in Australia;  California reserves government contracts for gay companies only; West Midlands police inspector spared jail; Indoctrination of children in Scottish Highlands schools;  Disclosure - the Church and Aliens ;  The Hawkstone Farmers Choir wins BGT;  James Burrows dies;  Bob Newhart; No. 3 guitarist - Robbie Robertson; Starbucks Korea have an AI disaster; Feedback;  The NSS report a Church for its preaching;  the Final Word - Reveleation 7:9with music from The Hawkstone Farmers Choir; Baccara;  Oasis; Nick Morgan; Neil Diamond; Deep Purple; Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton; Maasaki Suzuki; and Roy Turner

     

    23 June 2026, 4:51 am
  • 55 minutes 37 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 36 - The World Cup - Curacao; Peace; AI Model Collapse; and Paganism

    This week we look at the Iran/USA peace deal; John Healy resigns; The Global Justice Report; Elon Musk the worlds first Trillionaire; the World Cup - Scotland, Australia and Curaco; Killer Ideology of the week - Paganism; Dark Mofo in Tasmania; Dr Who - Goes Woke and Broke;  Peter Hitchens - Remembering Poetry; AI - Model Collapse?; the state of Coal in the world; Argentina and AI companies; Feedback; 'Sophie from Dundee';  AI writing sermons; Simon Guilleband and Tim Hughes; the Final Word - 1 Timothy 4:8  including music from Dave Alvin; Tim Hughes; Izaline Calister; Jethro Tull;  Glenn Campbell; The Proclaimers; 

    18 June 2026, 6:18 am
  • 57 minutes 28 seconds
    Beauty For Ashes - The Killer Ideologies Special

    This week we are looking at the ideologies that kill in our society and the antidote to them.    Including anti-racism; Queer and Trans; Anti-Semitism; Autonomy - euthanasia and abortion; Statism, Facism and Communism; Islam; The Green ideology; Christian Heresies;  and the solutions given by Christ, the Gospel and the Church, Schaeffer on No Little People' and the Final Word - Colossians 2;8 with music from Coldplay, Gary Moore; Paul Macartney and Stevie Wonder; U2;  Leonard Cohen; Dean Martin and Helen O’Connell;  Bob Marley; Geoff Bullock; 

    11 June 2026, 5:06 am
  • 47 minutes 7 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 34 - Henry Novak, Cambodia, Pregnant men in Australia; the Pope and AI....

    This week we look the Murrell/Sturgeon scandal in Scotland;  Ireland and Iran;  The British Museum cancels Israel; Country of the Week - Cambodia;  Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner wants to protect pregnant men;  Pride returns to Sodom and Gomorrah;  The racist death of Henry Novak;  Transgender Extremist who plants bomb in Melbourne spared jail;  the Pope on AI; Newcastle Knights; Married at First Sight;  Top ten guitarists - no. 6 Jimmy Page;  Feedback; Iain McGilchrist on the need for Christianity; Jesus turns up on the Gold Coast; and the Final Word - Genesis 11:5-9 -   with Bachman Turner Overdrive;  Sinn Sisamouth; Preah Ang La Hor; Mike Zito; Kraftwerk;  Led Zeppelin and Dave Henderson 

    4 June 2026, 4:40 am
  • 48 minutes 30 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 33 - Freedom!

    This week we look at the subject of freedom - including why we are no longer on Christian radio; freedom from the rush of the modern world; the Australian Christian Freedom Index; Country of the Week- Afghanistan;  Morrisey on Diversity; Worlds Top Ten Guitarists; Feedback;  The Fall of the Plymouth Brethren; Freedom of Religion; and the Final Word - Psalm 124 

    with music from Lynyard Skynard; Faryad Darya; the Smiths; Carl Perkins; Dave Henderson; Disciple; Mateus Asato;  and the Sons of Korah. 

    28 May 2026, 5:08 am
  • 44 minutes 39 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 32 - Cuba, Eurovision, Father Ted and Trio Mandili

    This week we look at whether the world is burning, Guy Macpherson and Roger Pielke; Polygamy in the UK; Hamas and women;  Father Ted and Eurovision; Tickle v. Giggle; Scotland and Misgendering; Country of the Week - Cuba; Feedback; Green Lamborghini hypocrisy; Zack Polanski and tax avoidance; Negative gearing and Australian government ministers; the Drewitt-Barlow scandal; the decline of Latin and Greek in Princetown Classics; Blasphemy and Churchill; and the Final Word.with music from the Ruts, Trio Mandili, Celia Cruz, the Bottle Rockets, Andromeda, Dara, BB King, Seven Nation Army in Attic Greek, and Petra

    21 May 2026, 8:29 pm
  • 45 minutes 21 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 31 - Weltanschaung, India, Cats and Sam Alberry

    This week we ask what is your Weltanschaung; the UK Elections; Green overseas trans student elected to govern Scotland; Holland and Sandbrook on non conformist Protestantism in UK politics; One Nation in Australia; Country of the Week - India; Pete Townsend and John Entwhistle;  The battle that was won by cats; Feedback;  Some of the Oldest things in the world; Sam Alberry;  Christians slaughtered in the DRC; and the final word - Matthew 23:27-28 

    with music from Bob Dylan, Ma Rewa, Yeshua Ministries, the Who, Squeeze, Mozart, and Stephen McWhirter....

    14 May 2026, 5:48 am
  • 44 minutes 6 seconds
    Beauty for Ashes 30 - Trigger Warnings, King Charles in the US, the UAE, and ZZ Top

    This week we look at Trigger Warnings; King Charles; the Scottish Elections; the anti-Christian Lib Dems; the SPLC funds Hate groups they oppose;  Country of the Week - the United Arab Emirates; Feedback; Trevor Phillips on Anti-Semitism; The Top Ten Rock Guitarists - Billy Gibbons; Ausustinos Saaman in Egypt;  Ben Sasse; and the Last Word John 15:18-20 with music from the Corries, Steeleye Span, Hussain al Jassmi, Hazidim, Blue Oyster Cult, and Dues Metallicus 

    7 May 2026, 6:35 am
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