EPISODE 21: I Want to Be Un-Unique

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 26 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 : 'Powerful Things' by The Howl & The Hum

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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? So, first question.
0:47.3	Is there a day of the week you favour?
0:51.3	Oh, um, I think I like the days that I work, because I don't work in a location every day of the week.
1:01.0	So I kind of like those days and Friday's good as well.
1:06.0	Friday. It's a safe Friday.
1:09.0	Let's imagine you're not working.
1:13.5	And the day is entirely yours to do what you like with it.
1:18.1	What's the ideal happening?
1:19.9	I would get out early, if I could, and maybe I would go to the Thames Estuary
1:29.1	and take a long walk
1:31.8	along the Thames Estuary
1:32.8	start a Benfleet
1:35.0	and walk all the way
1:36.2	to Fowness Island
1:38.3	maybe
1:38.7	I mean I would stop off
1:41.1	a few cafes along the way
1:42.6	and also maybe have some seafood at Leoncy.
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