EPISODE 32: Becoming a Superhero

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 37 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 and mixed by Eloise Whitmore

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song: 'There Are Many Ways To Say I Love You' by Edgar Hurley

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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? Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:46.5	I would have to say a Monday.
0:49.7	Today?
0:50.4	Yeah, because there's a classic song, I don't like Mondays.
0:53.9	By Bob Geldof band.
0:55.3	That's the one, I believe.
0:56.9	And, you know, sometimes...
0:58.0	Do you know what that's about?
0:59.1	It's about, was it about a shooting or stabbing in America where there was an incident
1:05.1	and the song was inspired by that because he turned around and said the reason why he
1:09.8	committed the offence was because he
1:11.7	don't like Mondays. So I asked myself the question, well, why don't you like Mondays? It's just another day.
1:20.2	But I think it all stems from stress, Monday work. So Monday is always a fearful thing because people
1:27.2	are just recovering from the weekend,
1:29.7	Saturday and Sunday, and then you have to return to work and life returns to normal.
1:34.6	So why Monday's few? What's the joy in them?
1:37.1	Well, the joy for me is that it's the start of a new week, a fresh start.
1:41.6	Yes.
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