EPISODE 10: Shall We Roll Down the Hill?

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench 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 : 'Golden Now' by Will Cookson

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you. Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:08.0	Yeah, sure. I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a Bench, where essentially I sit next to people for 10 or 15 minutes and ask a few questions about the lives.
0:19.0	Would you be up for something? Yeah, sure. Fantastic. That's fun. questions about the lives. Would you be up for something thing? Yes, sure. Fantastic.
0:21.6	That's fun.
0:22.6	That's the dream.
0:23.6	What's your favourite day for the week?
0:44.4	That would have to be Sunday morning.
0:47.4	Just Sunday morning.
0:48.4	Yeah, Sunday morning.
0:48.8	Yeah, Sunday morning.
0:51.0	Why?
0:52.1	Well, for me anyway, you've got the day to relax, and I always put on the same playlist.
0:57.8	I always put on the Velvet Underground, have some tofu.
1:01.0	It's always a good morning.
1:02.3	I love it.
1:03.2	Just straight off Velvet Underground, tofu on its own?
1:06.8	Scramble on toast.
1:08.8	You know, you've got that ritual for Sunday.
1:10.5	Perfect.
1:11.0	It sounds like you love it.
1:12.6	Yeah, I love it.
1:13.2	Could you kind of try and replicate it for other days of the week?
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