EPISODE 46: Looking for the Dangling Carrot

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 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 by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

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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? Okay, so we're on.
0:46.3	Me and you on a bench is only going to happen once in our whole lives.
0:49.3	Indeed. Well, you never know.
0:51.3	No pressure. Is there a day of the week
0:55.5	that you favour
0:56.1	probably
0:59.5	Saturday
1:00.5	do I need to be more
1:03.5	definite than that
1:05.1	well you do
1:06.2	it's right
1:06.6	I mean you do
1:07.1	you don't
1:07.5	can I
1:08.1	absolutely
1:08.4	extrapolate
1:09.6	absolutely
1:10.3	so I'm freelance. So at the moment, any day of the week is fine.
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