EPISODE 48: Outliers, Hugs, and Biscuit Thrusters

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 55 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?
0:47.3	In the last couple of years it used to be the weekend because that's when you'd have university
0:56.5	or work off but I now work as of the last two years in a profession that requires me to work
1:04.3	out of hours quite frequently.
1:07.0	So my favourite day of the week tends to be the day that I have off, but that varies.
1:11.6	Okay, so let's imagine a day off then.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	Your kind of ideal day from waking up to go into bed.
1:19.6	What does it look like for you?
1:21.6	It can vary. Sometimes I'm in the mood just to spend the day by myself.
1:26.6	I don't really get a lot of time to myself.
1:29.5	And so when I get up...
1:31.3	What time are we getting up?
1:33.5	Usually later in the day, just to get some sleeping.
1:36.9	Yeah.
1:37.3	Usually about 10 o'clock.
1:38.5	And then I like just to keep the day out of slow pace.
1:41.6	I like to make myself a nice cup of coffee, enjoy it, go into the garden,
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