EPISODE 27: Lunch Break Loving

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 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 by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song: 2 > 1 by Will Joseph Cook

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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?
0:47.8	I think it's Saturday.
0:50.1	But when I was younger, it was Thursday
0:51.9	because of the anticipation of Friday approaching.
0:56.0	Yeah, but not anymore.
1:00.0	Are you saying you're not young?
1:01.0	Well, I was in school back then.
1:05.0	What were you like in the school?
1:07.0	I was good, but I didn't like studying that much, so I was more outside playing with my friends.
1:15.4	If I say to you, trying to think of one school memory that stayed with you, what would that be?
1:26.6	What comes out straight away?
1:28.3	I think it would be in my university, starting my radio show in the radio club.
1:34.3	That was fun. I remember enjoying that moment, entering the studio, making my first program.
1:42.3	Nice. The first time were you presenting it? Yeah. Were you nervous?
1:48.2	I was. Yeah. But it went pretty good. So after the first two minutes, I wasn't nervous anymore.
1:57.2	Yeah. In other times in your life when you've been nervous, how do you overcome your nerves?
2:02.7	What are your tactics? Well, I think I'm a pretty calm person by nature, so I don't have
2:09.6	difficulty in that aspect. For example, at my job, I'm expected to do some things with a very
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