EPISODE 35: Vulnerability Is a Bridge

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 39 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: 'Sculptor' by Tamzene

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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?
0:46.3	A day of the week that I favour. Let's think about this.
0:49.3	I quite like Fridays.
0:51.3	Solid. Take me from waking up to going to bed.
0:55.4	What is a good Friday lived on this weird earth?
0:58.3	Well, I can't honestly say that it will differ from a Monday.
1:02.2	It's just the feeling.
1:03.4	The feeling?
1:04.1	Yeah.
1:04.3	It's the feeling of a Friday.
1:06.6	But my routine is I'm an early bird anywhere between like 6 a.m. and like 7.30.
1:14.3	It's my preferred wake-up start.
1:19.2	I'm sort of in a spiritual practice, so I will tend to say thank you for returning my soul.
1:30.0	Who are you saying thank you to?
1:31.3	I'm saying it to...
1:33.1	Cosmos?
1:34.4	To Cosmos? It could be God. It could be...
1:37.5	The person next to you in bed?
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