Episode 382. Bible Boys Update

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”The Bible: The Complete Word of god (abridged) - UK TOURAs our UK tour of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) is two-thirds of the way through it’s three and a half month tour of the UK and Ireland, it seemed high time to hear from producer Davey Naylor and actors Richard Ede, David Ellis, William Meredith, and (faintly from the driver’s seat of the van) Gary Fannin about how it’s all going. Featuring a new definition of ‘air guitar’, lovely theaters, culinary delights, reduced protests, weird accent mixtures, scheduling announcements, shoddy kettle workmanship, cutting edge podcasting, and the strange and utterly fascinating British obsession with roads. (Length 17:12)

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