EPISODE 51: A Song For My Daughter
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 43 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 : '10/10' by 'Cinnabar Wood'
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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? Do you have a favourite day of the week? |
| 0:46.3 | I'd say Friday. I really like the excitement that comes with Fridays. You've got the kind of working week behind you and you've got the possibilities of the weekend and Friday night. |
| 1:00.5 | Yes, Friday night. Although I'm self-employed, so technically every day is great. |
| 1:06.3 | Friday. Every day is Friday. |
| 1:09.1 | Okay, so let's imagine one of these Fridays then. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.6 | What is your vision of the ideal Friday for you? |
| 1:15.6 | Waking up without an alarm, I've got a daughter, a nine-year-old, so I have to take her to school. |
| 1:22.6 | Is she your alarm? |
| 1:23.6 | She is my alarm. Well, not always. |
| 1:25.6 | But in an ideal world, I would just wake up when I naturally want to wake up. |
| 1:31.7 | Maybe do something like this, come to the park, sit on a bench, talk to somebody like you. |
| 1:35.9 | Oh my God. We live in your ideal day now. So you wake up without an alarm. Your daughter's around though. |
| 1:41.8 | Maybe she wants her to be... |
| 1:43.0 | So you don't want your daughter there for the ideal day. Maybe she's saying like parents. There we go. |
| 1:44.4 | So you don't want your daughter there for the ideal day? |
| 1:47.0 | You already got her in a daughter. |
| 1:49.6 | Well, no, because it's a restriction of like having to get up. |
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