EPISODE 15: Family Business

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 33 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 : 'Life Long Love' by Rachel Sermanni

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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? Are you ready for the first question?
0:46.3	First question is really easy.
0:49.3	What's your favourite day of the week?
0:51.3	See I told you, I told you it was easy.
0:53.3	What a question. I know my worst day of the week
0:56.3	was Tuesday. Everything goes wrong on a Tuesday. Why? Like any bad luck I've ever had, I feel like
1:06.3	always happens on a Tuesday. And it's also like the added added you've lost that Monday motivation it's not even
1:12.4	halfway through the week yet you can't even look forward to the weekend so I'm always like
1:15.7	Tuesdays are the worst day best day it's got to be a Friday it's the end of the week and you know
1:21.6	that you've got the whole weekend to sort of enjoy yourself classic classic Friday so let so let's fast forward
1:28.1	then to a weekend
1:28.8	day for you
1:29.6	yeah
1:30.0	let's go Saturday
1:30.8	okay
1:31.1	take me through
1:33.5	from waking up
1:35.1	to going to bed
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