RHLSTP Book Club 99 - Catherine Nixey

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Book Club #99 - Heresy - Richard talks to journalist and author and daughter of a nun and a monk, Catherine Nixey about her witty and informative book about the early days of Christianity, Heresy. They chat about what the word Heresy really means, the extraordinary gospels that didn’t make it into the New Testament which show Jesus’ murderous side and the magical powers of the Virgin Mary’s anatomy, the varying beliefs of early Christian sects, including one that said he hated kids and their parents, the many magical holy men who performed very similar miracles to Jesus and even provided dressing when they magicked up food, the Romans who couldn’t understand how you’d choose between them and how in spite of this the religion was adopted by the empire. Did Jesus have a twin? Did he persuade someone else to get on the cross for him and how close did Life of Brian get to the truth?

Buy the book here - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/heretic-the-many-lives-of-jesus-christ-and-the-other-saviours-of-the-ancient-world-catherine-nixey/6452719?ean=9781529040357

And the audiobook here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretic-Lives-Christ-Saviours-Ancient/dp/B09LJXMH46

See Rich's stand-up tour Can I Have My Ball Back - https://richardherring.com/ballback/

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome to my podcast feed powered by a-class plus of course
0:04.9	There's a brief hiatus in the Can I have my ballback tour for half term, but I am back on the 7th of June at the Bluesbury Theatre 9th of June at the Lesser Square Theatre. Those are the last
0:14.5	two London gigs. We need to sell some tickets for those two, I have to say the first Lesser
0:19.2	Square Theatre gig was fantastic and full, but there are still plenty of tickets for those two
0:24.8	London dates and there will be reviewers coming so if you are even just thinking
0:28.9	about coming to the tour please consider coming to one of those two gigs.
0:33.0	But then I'm on to Cambridge, Leicester, Leeds, the Solford Lowry, Newcastle,
0:37.0	Newcastle, which is sold out, Bridport, Ipswich, Swindon, Portsmouth, Basingstone, Cheltenham and Monmouth, Carlisle, Lancaster,
0:43.6	Castle, Shrewsbury, Alton, Froom, Bristol, Sheffield, Guilford, Norwich,
0:48.0	sold out and Andover.
0:50.1	Richard Herring.com slash Ballback slash tour for all details.
0:54.0	Thanks to everybody's come so far. It's been really fun doing the show.
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