EPISODE 2: Fruit Sculptures for Breakfast

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger in a London park and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.

This is what happened!

Producer 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 : Fruit Sculptures by Sophie May

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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 is your favorite day of the week?
0:46.3	I'll say Saturday, because I can wake up whenever I want I clean my house it helps me
0:58.6	reset I love the smell of bleach and detergent you're the first person that's
1:06.9	got so quickly to the smell of beach and detergent I. No, I'm not a junkie. Probably within 11 seconds of talking.
1:13.7	Love it.
1:15.7	Yeah, I also think of what I would like to cook during the week.
1:21.7	So I get inspired for ingredients.
1:25.3	I speak to my family.
1:31.7	Yeah, it's a lot of me time. Do you know where this feeling of liking things being really clean, do you know where that comes from? I grew up in a house
1:38.5	where my mom was working a lot of hours. My dad was working too, so she would come home exhausted and she would
1:47.0	only cook for us, but she was not a fun of cleaning. So yeah, I learned to clean since I was very little.
1:58.0	Can you remember a time as a little person when you first experienced the joy of a clean space?
2:07.5	I was still going to school and my parents left me home alone for the first time. They went to my village to visit my grandpa. And I always had this
2:19.9	fantasy of taking a bath because I've never had a bath since then, always shower. And I was like,
2:26.2	okay, I have to clean my bath first. And that's the first time I did it, turned off the lights,
2:32.9	put on some candles, listen to my favorite music.
2:36.0	So yeah.
2:38.0	Wow.
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