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Beauty for Ashes

The Wee Flea
Beauty for Ashes
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  • Beauty for Ashes

    Beauty for Ashes 56 - To Boldly Go - Serbia, Poland, Scottish Chick-Fil-a; Mbappe and Mao

    02/11/2026 | 53 mins.
    This week we look at the endless cruise ends; Constitutional crisis in Poland; Deadlock in Israeli elections;  The French 'far right/left' killing;  Scotlands paid non jobs; Abortion promises in Victoria;  Country of the week - Serbia; Mbappe and Mao; Fined for letting your teenager work with you in the UK; Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig;  Australian government Paedophile website;  Islamaphobia and Armistice Day in Tower Hamlets; 'Jew Free' in Sweden; MSF cancelled by the Swiss over abuse allegations; German raped girl accused of misgendering her attacker;  Chick-Fil-A arrives in Scotland;  Harald Bluetooth; the first personalised cancer vaccine;  Poetry - Les Murray; Feedback; Election biding war for Hindu temples in Victoria; Jordan killers named; American pastors celebrate their polygamy; and the Final Word - 1 Peter 5...with music from Fleetwood Mac; Rod Stewart; Lore Track; Dire Straits;  Ceca; Thunderclap Newman; Tim Hawkins; and   The Red Clay Strays;
  • Beauty for Ashes

    Beauty for Ashes 55 - French Riots, Croatian anti-semitism and Californian Toilets

    25/10/2026 | 47 mins.
    This week we look at the riots in France; Heather Tomlinson v. Andrew Neil; Attack on an Australian politician; Saudi Arabian Executions; Country of the Week - Croatia; Glasgow museum wants permission from the dead mummies;  Gillian Mackay and eradicating Israel; Swedish education returns to pen and paper; an expensive San Fransisco Toilet; Snowy 2:0 price blows out; BBC Bitesize propaganda; Hamas apologist now senior BBC advisor; The Buddy Holly Story; Wisdom from Stephen PRessley; Giorgi Nemzadse;  Danish turbines v. Swedish nuclear; Fishing and Pubs in Scotland; The Scented Internet; Feedback; poetry from Leonard Cohen; a New Christian School in Cessnock; the Final Word. with music from The Clash; Scott Mackenzie;  Oliver Dragojevic;  The Bangles; Buddy Holly; Nirvana; Leonard Cohen;  Shane and Shane;
  • Beauty for Ashes

    Beauty for Ashes 54 - India, Winnie the Pooh and Those Russians

    19/10/2026 | 51 mins.
    This week we look at Russian interference; The EU 'anti Russian' censorship; Why are the number of teens identifying as gay falling?  What is causing high diesel prices?  Discipline in Danish schools; Country of the Week - India; Christians demonstrate for Israel in Amsterdam; Muslim woman demands polygamy in Scotland; Mandani says Amen to death prayer; Somali rapist wins court case against NHS; County Councillor disciplined for opposing sex stall at childrens library; 100th anniversary of Winnie the Pooh; Paid to applaud; Sweden returns to cash; Fake indigenous story blocks gold mine in Australia; Poetry from Rabbi Burns; Feedback and the Final Word - with music from Boney M; CW McColl; Guns ‘n’ Roses; Ravi Shankar; Banke Stuti and Anish Masih; Mahler; Abba;  Supertramp; City Alight
  • Beauty for Ashes

    Beauty for Ashes 53 - Singapore, the Nobel Peace Farce, Burnham and Badenoch and the Atheist Songbook

    12/10/2026 | 59 mins.
    This week we look at the Cockroach Party;  Trump's Diesel Deal with Russia; Houthis attack Saudi Arabia;  Pilay wins Nobel Peace Prize;  Progressives celebrate Oct 7th in Amsterdam; Humza Yousaf defends his response to Oct 7th; Andy Burnham v. Kemi Badenoch; Country of the Week - Singapore;  City Harvest Church Scandal; Dundee Girls vindicated; The first left wing terrorist in the UK? Mothin Ali, Robin Harper and the Greens;  FlyDubai attacker radicalised in Melbourne Mosque; Lucy Connolly and two tier justice again; Shabana Mahmood states that every woman travelling illegally to the UK has been raped; a teenager in Australia who raped an 18 year old walks free because he was an immigrant; Oxford City Council declares that biological sex is not scientific; Kate Blanchett interview on the BBC; Angus Young's faithful marriage; No. 1 Classical - Beethoven's sixth; The attempt to replace God at the French Revolution;  NSW Judge rules that coal plant must close; Poetry Keats  - Oh, How I Love a Summers Day; Feedback; Rev Brandon Robertson; and the Final Word - with Joshua Luke Smith.  with music from Matchbox; Black Sabbath;   JJ Lin; Sun Ho; Bryan Ferry;  ACDC; Beethoven; Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
  • Beauty for Ashes

    Beauty for Ashes 52 - The FlyDubai heros; France; Tucker and Hitler....

    05/10/2026 | 59 mins.
    This week we look at the FlyDubai attack; Danny Tommo and British injustice; The Iranian airbase attack; the Jamaican rapist who can't be deported because he is bisexual; Country of the Week - France;  Students reject Pride in the US;  The Police being trained in Islam and against Farage;  The National Secular Society warn about Mosque;  The Greens go madder; Tucker Carlson wishes Hitler had won;  Partick Thistle go Christian; Swan Lake;  Dame Esther Rantzen; Coal mines extended in NSW; The poet Joshua Luke Smith; Feedback; The pastor who thinks Lazarus was gay; the hypocrisy of Pastor David Wigington; The Pornographer who worships God;  Who Created God?  and the Final Word - Ps 90with music from David Bowie;  Benny Friedman; Sam Cooke; Tchaikovsky;  Alan Stivell; Plastic Bertrand; Dream Theater;
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About Beauty for Ashes
David Robertson discusses faith, culture and politics from a Christian perspective - this podcast was known as Quantum of the Wee Flea.    Now it has been turned into a radio programme with Rhema FM.   
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