EPISODE 38: Casinos, Cheating, and Chamomile

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 42 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: 'Might Go Outside' by Seb Lowe

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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?
0:22.0	Do you want to give it a go? Hello? First question is nice and easy, man.
0:48.3	Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:53.3	I favour the Friday. Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:58.0	I favour the Friday. I favour the Friday.
1:00.0	Just the beginning of the weekend.
1:02.0	A weekend signals when a lot of your mates and stuff like that are going to be free as well.
1:07.0	So you kind of forget that you had the past week and then back to reality on Monday.
1:13.9	So yeah, I favour the Monday.
1:15.2	I favour the Friday, sorry, so I definitely don't favour the Monday.
1:19.2	Definitely don't favour the Monday.
1:21.1	So tell me, what's an ideal Friday lived for you?
1:25.9	You know, what's the dream?
1:30.3	Well, perfect Friday to me right now would look like waking up with no alarm straight off the back, wake up when the sun's
1:36.3	coming through the windows and then make some food for myself or go to one of my favourite breakfast spots,
1:45.0	have a nice greasy spoon breakfast.
1:47.0	What's on your greasy spoon list?
1:49.0	You've got the whole shabang!
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