EPISODE 11: If I Had a Boat

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 25 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 'If I Had a Boat' by Chris Brain

Stream it here : https://ffm.to/ifihadaboat

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:05.0	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? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:45.3	Wow.
0:47.3	Friday.
0:53.3	The weekend comes with responsibilities
0:57.8	even if they're only to enjoy yourself
1:00.3	whereas Friday is a workday that sort of morphs into the weekend
1:05.0	and that feels enjoyable and exciting
1:08.4	so Friday represents the best of both worlds for you, something of the workday,
1:14.2	something of the prospect of leisure. Yes, yes, it's a good way of putting it. And let's think leisure.
1:23.1	Yeah. Can you take me through for you what would be a kind of really ideal day?
1:30.3	I want you waking up, I want anything, any detail you want to chuck in there is good.
1:36.3	Gold star.
1:37.3	Right, okay.
1:40.3	So wake up magically late.
1:45.0	I say magically because it doesn't happen very often.
1:49.0	To be able to look at the clock and say, wow, this isn't going to sound very late to you, but like,
1:57.0	9.30 or something like that. It would be wonderful.
2:01.6	Not having anything in the agenda too early on in the day.
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