EPISODE 20: Two Funerals and a Faulty Printer

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 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 : 'God I Love a Funeral' by Katie Gregson-MacLeod

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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? Do you have a favourite day of the week?
0:46.3	Do you have a favourite day of the week?
0:51.3	I feel like I have my least favourite days of the week, but that feels maybe a bit of a negative answer.
0:58.0	But that's okay. It doesn't have to be instant joy, you know?
1:02.0	Probably is Friday, which feels very kind of...
1:06.0	But I almost now want to hear about the least favourite of days.
1:10.0	I work in an office, Tuesday is hard.
1:12.6	Monday you got a bit of pep and this might be a good week.
1:15.6	By Tuesday you know it's not going to be a good week.
1:17.6	And there's still so much more to go.
1:19.6	You know what I mean?
1:21.6	It does feel very geared towards the weekend, which is maybe a bit depressing.
1:26.6	What's it like to work in an office?
1:29.3	Well, I work for a theatre.
1:31.3	It's office vibes, but it's not like corporate at all.
1:34.3	How would you describe being in an office to an alien?
1:38.3	To an alien.
1:39.3	Or someone that had never done it before.
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