A retelling of ‘Genesis’ — “Why not make the world out of sugar?” asks the snake. “Instead of stingers, give bees lips they can kiss you with.”

 Posted by on 20 February 2010  Vintage/Retro
Feb 202010
 

As I picked up Amy from work for a little bit of lunch this afternoon, I caught a brief snippet of something on the radio. It was a retelling of the Genesis story, but with humour instead of ponderous moral overtones.

After some searching online, I found it — it’s actually a rebroadcast of a Jonathan Goldstein show called WireTap on CBC. This one included the retelling of Genesis, but also some other religious-themed stuff.

If you’re already a fan of WireTap, you’ll fit right in. If you’ve never heard it before, it’s kind of like a radio grab bag. The podcast (and all the archived WireTaps) can be found on the CBC site here.

I’ve embedded the one I was talking about, below. The Genesis retelling starts about 5:30 in. The full podcast is a little under half an hour.

WireTap – The Genesis Story

Oh, and I found a transcript here.

Grant Hamilton

  • Colin

    Count me in as a HUGE Wiretap fan. I even geeked out and got Jonathan Goldstein’s autograph last spring at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

    He has a book out, called Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible, on this theme. I subscribe to the podcast and urge anyone else to, as well.

  • thebanana

    Wiretap rules. The woman who read the Genesis story is Heather O’Neill (JG’s real life partner) and is a terrific author on her own right. You should brig her in to next year’s writer’s festival!

  • Colin

    They’ve been reading David Eagleman’s “Sum: 40 Tales From the Afterlife” lately and it’s just brilliantly original. Another choice, if possible.

    That show was the one I took in at the Wpg Comedy Fest last spring at the WAG. On a related note, the music was played by John K Samson of the Weakerthans and Leanne Zacharias who teaches at BU…both were on stage at BU recently for a concert.

    • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

      If you were there, maybe we can hear you! That Wpg show might have been the one that they recorded and rebroadcast and is therefore in the podcast above. I *think* I remember reading something about that on one of the CBC pages I was looking at to find the mp3.

  • Colin

    It’s the show I was at, yes. Pretty sure the hundreds of other peeps present drowned out my fanboy-ness, though…