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Biblical Time Machine Podcast Transcripts

Helen Bond & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones · 260 episodes with transcripts

Join Helen and Lloyd as they travel back in time (metaphorically… it’s a podcast) to explore the real history of the people, places and events of the Old Testament, New Testament and everything in between.

Spoken has transcripts of 260 Biblical Time Machine episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 5, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1648738323/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest Biblical Time Machine transcripts

The Bible's Golden Oldies

October 5, 2026

Helen Bond (0:20)

My name is Helen Bond, and I am Professor of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh.

And as always, I am joined by my bestie, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, who is Professor in Ancient History at the University of Cardiff.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (0:39)

Oh, Helen, I'm always feeling my age these days.

Helen Bond (0:43)

Thirty, of course.

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