EPISODE 5: Michael's Tree

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 28 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 : Michael's Tree by Sammy Copley

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:07.0	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? Do you have a favourite day of the week?
0:47.3	I think Friday, I'm not really quite sure why.
0:57.0	Maybe it's after long years of a five-day week.
1:02.0	Friday was always nice to look forward to, you know.
1:07.0	Then you were free for a couple of days at least and you still have that
1:14.5	feeling now even though are you still working no I'm retired thank you for
1:19.5	asking from the days when you were working uh-huh and you're looking
1:25.5	forward to Fridays what was a typical Friday
1:27.9	evening that you might look forward to oh I think it was going out to the pub with
1:33.6	pub friends people you knew for years especially in Camden Town yeah that was it
1:39.8	it's been free you know and been able to stay out late. Have a couple of pints or more.
1:48.0	Is there one drinking establishment which you feel particular connection to from that time?
1:56.0	The black carp.
2:01.6	Carp the fish.
2:03.6	Black carp.
2:05.6	A cap, sorry.
2:07.6	That black cap, sorry.
2:09.6	That car, that tells you a lot about me
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