EPISODE 13: Maybe I Need To Go Home

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 39 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.

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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

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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? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:47.3	I don't know, maybe Saturday or Sunday I suppose. I never talked about that, I don't know.
1:00.3	It's welcome. Yeah, probably the weekend I suppose, yeah. Friday maybe, yeah.
1:04.2	Oh, we've got three options there now suddenly. Yeah, probably Friday, probably Friday.
1:09.8	Can you take me through what would be an ideal day for you? Uh, probably at the weekend I suppose I'd get up, about half six, I read,
1:17.6	and then I'll do something like this, I come to Hampstead Heath or sometimes I go for a drive.
1:22.6	I go places, yeah, that's it, yeah.
1:25.6	Nothing too exciting, I mean if I go to a casino and got to a strip club or something?
1:32.3	Yeah, I mean, it's excitement is in the eye of the behold, isn't it?
1:36.3	So whatever you fancy is, is absolutely fine.
1:39.3	You say you get up and you read straight away.
1:41.3	Yeah.
1:42.3	That's interesting.
1:43.3	I just doing it for years.
1:45.1	Probably lockdown, it became more of a kind of routine.
1:48.4	Just to not go mad.
1:51.1	Yeah, I don't know if I succeeded actually in lockdown.
1:53.2	But yeah, I just do that.
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