EPISODE 29: Mushrooms, Mothers, and Dark Hours

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

**Content warning : this episode discusses self-harm**

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: 'Losing You' by Fauzia

Stream it here: https://ffm.to/losingyou-soab

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Transcript

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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? Okay, we're off.
0:45.3	We're flying, we're absolutely flying.
0:47.3	Big winners, big winners.
0:49.3	Hi, first question, nice and easy one, the first one.
0:53.3	What's your favourite day of the week?
0:55.0	My favourite day of the week?
0:57.0	I really do like a Monday actually. I'm not going to lie to you.
1:00.0	Oh, controversial.
1:02.0	I know, I know.
1:03.0	Tell me why.
1:04.0	Because that's one I can actually get my week started.
1:07.0	It definitely used to be like a Friday or a Saturday.
1:10.0	But I feel like now, because I'm very much in the process of finding myself, I'm excited to have the beginning of the week come where I can fully indulge into the things that enlighten me.
1:22.6	So it's her one day.
1:24.6	Love that. You mentioned the process of finding yourself.
1:26.6	Yes. How does one start that process?
1:29.3	Did you wake up one morning and go like, I'm finding myself now?
1:32.3	Do I mean?
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