EPISODE 54: We'll Be Holding Each Other's Hands

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 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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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? Well, here we are.
0:46.3	It's a good hat, by the way.
0:49.3	Good colour.
0:50.3	Anyway, first question for you.
0:53.3	Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:55.8	Hmm.
1:01.9	No.
1:07.4	No.
1:09.5	Drop done.
1:10.5	We've got everything we need now.
1:12.6	Perhaps could elaborate.
1:17.6	You don't have to.
1:20.6	It was one word answers you wanted, wasn't it?
1:23.6	This is a quiz, right?
1:24.6	It's a yes and no game, fundamentally.
1:26.6	Closed questions. Keep them coming. I know we do keep going.
1:29.3	No. Was there ever a one?
1:31.3	Or will there be a...
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