EPISODE 33: Follow The Blood

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

**Content warning : Injury detail**

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: 'Follow The Blood' by Georgia Ruth

Stream it here: https://ffm.to/followtheblood

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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? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:44.3	Probably Friday.
0:47.3	Solid, straight in with the Friday.
0:49.3	I like that I can go out after work
0:52.3	and I don't need to worry about what time I'm coming in because then
0:55.1	Saturday I'm off because Sunday then I want to enjoy my day and have like a more relaxed
1:00.6	me day. Yeah. Because then I'm ready for Monday to start it all again. This makes sense.
1:05.8	Do I mean? Saturday I can just rot if I want to and not do anything. What's a good rot?
1:11.6	Oh God.
1:12.6	What is a perfect rot day?
1:13.6	I don't think it's a good day, a rot day in a sense.
1:16.6	What is the best rotting day possible?
1:19.6	Best rotting day.
1:20.6	Probably bundled up on the sofa, duvet on or heated blanket, favourite heated blanket yeah heated blanket so you're
1:30.8	just bundled up sweating gross this is the day you're allowed to look ugly me
1:35.1	and my best friend called each other and we're like this is ugly day when no one
1:38.2	else is allowed to see it but we see each other you know just on FaceTime and then yeah
1:42.5	just watching favorite films, watching crap films.
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