EPISODE 19: Covid in Cambodia

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 30 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 : 'Covid in Cambodia' by David Thomas Broughton

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

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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? Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:47.3	Mondays, I would say, today.
0:51.3	Can you tell me why? Because the weekend's over
0:57.0	and
0:59.0	I do a lot of my business on a Monday
1:02.0	and I enjoy my business, so Monday's a good start.
1:06.0	Have you always done business on a Monday?
1:08.0	No.
1:09.0	I, um, in fact, up until about three years ago,
1:15.3	I worked in the jungle for 20 years in Cambodia
1:20.0	as a tour guide on dirt bikes,
1:24.5	which I just lost the business,
1:26.8	so I had to come back to Blighty which I've been here since
1:31.3	two thousand and twenty one twenty two I left on New Year's Eve and flew to Germany
1:41.3	with my girlfriend who came and got me when COVID was on.
1:46.7	So I sold all my motorbikes, 22 motorbikes I had, and survived COVID in Cambodia.
1:55.9	Wow.
1:57.4	That's a lot of motorbikes to sell.
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