EPISODE 24: A Clown for a Day

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 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: 'Neighbors' by Genevieve Stokes

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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 favorite day of the week?
0:48.1	Oh, I like Thursdays because you're still anticipating the weekend, but it's after hump day.
0:57.7	I also won't have any class on Thursdays this semester, so that's going to be really nice.
1:01.8	What is hump day?
1:02.9	Wednesday. It's the middle of the week.
1:05.1	Is that what we call humm day?
1:06.1	Yeah. You learn something new.
1:08.2	Yeah, you do. I feel like I really should have known that.
1:11.8	Oh, wow.
1:12.3	Okay.
1:13.8	So does that mean you're feeling glorious today?
1:16.5	Oh, it is Thursday.
1:17.3	That's right.
1:17.9	Oh, my God.
1:19.7	Maybe it's not my favorite day then.
1:21.9	I didn't have any true plans today.
1:24.5	So I was like, I'll go somewhere scenic and read.
1:27.1	Today's been a kind of day you've had today off if you've had it to yourself.
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