EPISODE 22: Libraries, Angels, and Anxiety

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 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 : 'Flying The Nest' by Merrick Winter

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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? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:47.3	Favorite day of the week?
0:51.3	It's probably Saturday. That seems so cliche though, doesn't it?
0:56.0	It's okay. It's society's fault.
0:58.0	Isn't it just?
1:00.0	I am a firm disbeliever in the five-day working week, but I've had to confirm to it.
1:06.0	Same, bro, same. Have you tried fighting it?
1:09.0	I have. I've tried very hard to fight it, which leads me sitting
1:14.1	on a bench on what day of the week is it Wednesday? Usually my least favourite day of the week,
1:19.9	so I'm doing something right at the moment. Let's think of a Saturday. From getting up to going to bed, what is an ideal Saturday for you?
1:31.6	Okay.
1:31.7	But we can't have any fantasy in there.
1:34.5	You're not suddenly getting a helicopter somewhere or whatever, unless, of course,
1:37.1	you're a helicopter pilot, which you may surprise me either you are.
1:41.2	I wish I was.
1:43.3	I have thought about it. Still time. Yes, there is still
1:45.9	plenty of time. Perfect Saturday always starts with a little bit of a lion but not too much.
1:53.3	Yeah, we're talking, 8 o'clock? Yeah, 8.30. And then food is like always the first thing on my mind, coffee and brunch, which I've
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