Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Professor David Cheetham, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham where he has been based since 1999. David and I were both Theology students at Lampeter, with David studying for his PhD at the time that I was an undergraduate, and David talks about how Lampeter influenced him – and how there was more going on than his academic achievements. We talk about the second nature element of Zoom and how it has affected our teaching and we learn why David is an optimist about life post-lockdown. We discuss his memories of living in Lampeter back in the days when you ‘had to make your own entertainment’ in a way that wouldn’t have happened in a city university and why Lampeter was like a self-contained ecosystem of people in which he didn’t have to worry about ‘tomorrow’.  We learn all about the legendary Edmund Estafan and the Mydroilyn Sound Machine where David was the band’s keyboardist and David reveals that he had originally wanted to be a musician and