EPISODE 45: The Air Is My Ocean

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 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 by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

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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	I prefer Saturdays.
0:50.3	To every other day.
0:52.3	Take me through your ideal Saturday.
0:56.0	Blue skies, winds are up to six to seven miles an hour.
1:02.0	Do you say six or seven?
1:03.0	Six or seven is the sweet spot of flying.
1:06.0	Flying what?
1:07.0	Kites.
1:08.0	Okay.
1:09.0	So that's why I've come up to kite hill. And what I tend to do is the day before I look at the weather forecasts to determine
1:16.4	how much wind speed there is so I can be able to fly my kites to my heart's content.
1:23.6	That's wonderful.
1:24.6	It's to refresh myself for the week ahead.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.3	Re-energize emotionally.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:32.3	And also doing some physical exercise, which is flying kites, walking up that hill.
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