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Sunday 1st February 2015 at 10am – Sunday Spirit

Michael talks to documentary maker Ian Lawton about his new film ‘The Dharma Bum’.

The Dharma Bum is a feature length, part animated documentary, on the tantalising subject of a freethinking atheist alcoholic Irish hobo, born in 1856, who traveled across the globe to Burma, renounced the bottle, shaved his head, became a monk and in doing so could very well prove to be the missing link in the origin story of Western Buddhism!