EPISODE 30: He Thinks He's Guru Nanak

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 36 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: 'Coloured Glasses' by Uwade

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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 day of the week do you favour?
0:47.3	You know, it's funny.
0:49.3	I get asked all types of different questions about what do you favour.
0:54.7	Who's your favourite band?
0:56.9	He's your favourite actor.
0:58.3	What's your favourite day?
1:00.0	And I can honestly say, I don't have a favourite anything.
1:04.8	That's good.
1:06.1	Yeah.
1:06.7	But day is a little bit different to actor, though, isn't it?
1:09.0	Not really.
1:09.5	It's a preference, isn't it?
1:10.5	Yeah.
1:11.0	What do you have a preference for a day?
1:12.7	No. No, no. Okay. Okay, that's fine.
1:14.6	Okay, let's just go for any day then.
1:17.6	Take me through from getting up to going to bed.
1:21.6	What for you is, within reason, what for you is the ideal day of being alive?
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