I know, I know, I’m a man who can turn any conversational subject under the sun into a discussion about tango, but I genuinely had no idea that the topic of my latest interview would turn out to have dance as a core element.

After really enjoying listening to people talking about tango, my plan was to conduct some other interviews where the common thread was people talking about things they love. Admittedly, the second of these was with a dancer, but when it came to the third, I had no idea that the backstory involved dance …

Bonny Astor’s Thought Experiments in Pubs (TEiP) group brings together a mix of regulars and strangers to discuss a wide variety of fascinating scenarios. It’s a community devoted not to debate but rather open-minded conversation in which the goal is to find out how other people think.

The topics are as fundamental as love, choice, friendship, happiness, belonging, trust, justice, kindness, bravery and meaning – and the group quickly became one of my favourite social activities.

It was only once Bonny started sharing with me the story behind TEiP that I discovered dance had played a surprisingly fundamental role! Along with Pentonville prison and sunrises, obviously.

You can watch the 14-minute video below …