EPISODE 56: Rebellion and The River
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 53 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
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Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton
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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 favorite day of the week? |
| 0:48.3 | Hmm. I do actually. I'd probably say it's like Monday. |
| 0:56.6 | Good. Why? |
| 0:59.1 | I'd say it's my day off. Day off in the sense everyone's busy doing stuff and I can just enjoy the being not so busy. |
| 1:08.2 | During the weekend, there's tons of people around, can't go anywhere. |
| 1:11.7 | I don't like to be around loads of people. So Monday is great. Let's go for then any given Monday |
| 1:17.6 | in as much detail as you possibly can with someone you've literally just met. Yeah. What for you is |
| 1:23.8 | is a really good day on earth? |
| 1:27.7 | Waking up, hit me. |
| 1:29.3 | Feed the cats. |
| 1:30.6 | What time are you waking up? |
| 1:32.2 | Six-ish. |
| 1:34.4 | Early? |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:36.5 | I live on a boat, so during the summer it becomes bright quite early. |
| 1:41.5 | And then the cats wake me out for food anyway. |
| 1:43.7 | So yeah, I'd see it. So it goes light, cats wake me out for food anyway. So yeah. |
| 1:44.2 | So it goes light, cats, action. |
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