EPISODE 26: £5 Bread and Concussion

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 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: £5 Bread by Lily Lyons

Stream it here: https://ffm.to/fivepoundbread

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hi.
0:02.0	Hello.
0:03.0	Sorry to bother you.
0:04.0	That's great.
0:05.0	Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:07.0	Go on.
0:08.0	I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a Bench, where essentially I sit there to someone I don't know and talk to them for 10 or 15 minutes about life and anything in between.
0:21.6	We're going to be up for such a thing?
0:23.6	Yeah, sure. Fantastic. What's your favourite day of the week?
0:44.3	Oh, um...
0:48.3	Saturday?
0:53.3	A little bit of a delay there before the Saturday came.
0:57.0	Were there any others near?
0:58.0	I was between Thursday and Saturday.
1:01.0	Why did Thursday lose?
1:03.0	Because you have to work on a Thursday.
1:05.0	Why did Thursday come close to, really?
1:07.0	I usually have fun plans on a Thursday, so it'll be like work drinks with colleagues or like,
1:11.6	I'm doing something with a friend and you're like, oh, the week's almost over.
1:15.6	But then Saturday the week actually is over and you can just spend all day doing fun things,
1:19.6	not just the evening.
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