EPISODE 12: Quiet Chainsaw Man

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 18 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 : 'Miles and Inches' by Billie Marten

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Transcript

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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? This is the only time this will ever happen.
0:46.3	I've just met.
0:48.3	What's your favourite day of the week?
0:51.3	Favorite day?
0:53.3	Honestly, I'm stuck between like Friday and Saturday?
0:56.5	Because Saturday it's just like a day just to like completely unwind.
1:00.2	And then Friday's kind of like, oh, you know, end of the week, I guess.
1:05.2	Yeah, I say Friday, definitely Friday.
1:08.5	If you could do a dream day of yours
1:12.3	where you could take me from the morning to the evening,
1:16.2	what would it look like?
1:17.7	A great day.
1:19.2	Just a day where, I don't know, like,
1:22.3	just a day where I don't have to do anything, honestly.
1:24.3	Because it sounds lazy, but I don't like being productive.
1:27.0	I do, but like it's just, I don't know.
1:29.5	Like, the only type I'm productive is when my brain just, like, you know, just get up
1:32.9	and do it.
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