EPISODE 25: The Teacher Will Appear

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 32 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 & mixed by Eloise Whitmore

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song : 'The Teacher Will Appear' by Danny Casio

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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 is your favorite day of the week?
0:46.3	My favorite day of the week, it needs to be Friday.
0:51.3	It needs to be Friday, or it is Friday.
0:53.3	It's Friday, yeah, yeah. Okay. Can you say why?
0:57.8	It has the whole promise of the weekend ahead and at work everybody's just a little happier.
1:03.1	It's always a good day. There's bad Sundays, you know, and even bad Saturdays, but there's
1:09.0	almost never a bad Friday so that's why the pleasure
1:12.1	is in the anticipation exactly that's something like that do you do anything differently on a Friday
1:17.3	the other day so I am and you wouldn't tell for my appearance but I'm I'm a lot into Latin dances
1:23.3	so yeah so like I practice salsa for a while for Dutchman I a good dancer, which doesn't say anything because we're notoriously
1:30.8	bad dancers.
1:31.9	Oh really?
1:32.9	Why is that?
1:33.9	Why we're bad dancers?
1:34.3	It's a general lack of rhythm.
1:37.7	Like there's a sort of a Dutch, like a swear word, a cheese head.
1:42.8	Cheese head.
1:44.0	A cheese head, a cheese head, a cheese hat. Cheesehead? A cheese head, a casket, a cheese hat.
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