EPISODE 1: A Fight

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

Conversation, Strangers, Park, Society & Culture, Random, Bench, Documentary

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a random stranger in a park in London and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.

This is what happened!

Produced by Tom Rosenthal

Edited by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song 'Tryna Change' by Yvonne MK

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:07.0	Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:09.0	I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench
0:14.0	where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.
0:19.0	Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:46.3	No.
0:49.3	So that means you kind of just spring out of bed in the morning,
0:52.3	you feel good about your life? Most days I try to, yeah, most days I try just spring out of bed in the morning, you feel good about your life?
0:55.0	Most days I try to, yeah, most of the time, I try to come out of bed and feel the best.
0:59.0	I mean, obviously, depending on what happens the night before and what's going on in that period of time in my life, I guess it can waver.
1:06.0	But I mean, most days you're grateful to be seeing the light day the next day. So yeah, it's nice.
1:11.6	I had someone who's going to for this every day.
1:15.6	As soon as they got up, they just said thank you.
1:17.6	Yeah, that's really like.
1:18.6	That's beautiful.
1:19.6	As a way to start the day, it seems like a lovely thing to do, right?
1:22.6	Yeah, nice beautiful thing.
1:23.6	What are you most excited about at the moment? Probably, I'd say it's basketball again.
1:29.3	I'm a big basketball player and I've recently kind of got back into it.
1:33.3	I've been playing every day for the past two weeks now.
1:36.3	And that was like, you know, as a teenager, that was probably my biggest passion.
1:39.3	So I tried to follow that dream and got injured.
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