More Ramblings with Dave Bonta from Morning Porch

Back in April I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet up with Dave Bonta – poet, editor, thinker and photographer – and spend a couple of hours in Birmingham chatting about philosophy, Buddhism, Chinese thought, Levinas, happiness, religion and almost everything else. Dave has done impressive things attempting to wrestle our ramblings down into something more or less coherent and posted it as an epic two-part podcast.

Somewhat foolishly, when Dave asked about where we should meet, I suggested the Museum and Art Gallery Café. Foolishly on two counts: one that the food is terrible; and the other that the only noisier place to meet in Birmingham is probably spaghetti junction. Anyway, if you want to have a listen – and see me making such spurious assertions as "Zhuangzi is perhaps one of the only philosophers for whom misreading the text is justified by the text itself" – then both parts of the podcast are now online. You can subscribe to the Woodrat Podcast via iTunes.