EPISODE 3: I Threw My Phone in the Pond

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 19 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 : You'll Never Be John Cleese by Alex Brenchley

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hi.
0:02.0	Can I ask you a bit of a wild question?
0:07.0	Really?
0:08.0	I've got hearing problems.
0:09.0	Can speak to me a bit louder?
0:10.0	Yes, a bit louder.
0:11.0	I'm making a podcast.
0:13.0	Making a pod?
0:14.0	Podcast.
0:15.0	It's called strangers on a bench.
0:18.0	And the idea is I talk to people I don't know. I say people like me sitting on a bench.
0:22.6	You want to sit if you like.
0:24.6	I mean, you could have caught anything.
0:25.6	I mean, if I can't hear what you're asking me.
0:28.6	Ha ha ha ha ha ha. What's your favourite day of the week?
0:48.3	I don't have a favourite one. Any day is lovely.
0:51.3	If it's not raining. When you wake up in the morning, what is the first
0:56.7	thing you think about? Run to the toilet. Can you run? Well, I try to run. I can't run. I can't run.
1:07.3	I have to walk slowly with my walking stick.
1:13.0	There it is. What's your definition of the perfect day?
1:17.8	Well if I have nothing else to do, come to the heath, go for a walk,
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