Episodes

  • Beauty for Ashes 38 - Earthquakes, Austria, Lara Bird-Leakey and Skillet
    Jun 30 2026

    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.

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    51 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 37 - World Cup Songs, Japan, Humanism, the Grooming Gangs Report, Starbucks in South Korea, and Starmer
    Jun 23 2026

    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

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    55 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 36 - The World Cup - Curacao; Peace; AI Model Collapse; and Paganism
    Jun 18 2026

    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;

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    56 mins
  • Beauty For Ashes - The Killer Ideologies Special
    Jun 11 2026

    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;

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    57 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 34 - Henry Novak, Cambodia, Pregnant men in Australia; the Pope and AI....
    Jun 4 2026

    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

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    47 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 33 - Freedom!
    May 28 2026

    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.

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    49 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 32 - Cuba, Eurovision, Father Ted and Trio Mandili
    May 21 2026

    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

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    45 mins
  • Beauty for Ashes 31 - Weltanschaung, India, Cats and Sam Alberry
    May 14 2026

    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....

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    45 mins