EPISODE 59: The Back of His Neck

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 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 : 'The Back of His Neck' by Anna B Savage

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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? Are you ready?
0:45.3	I am.
0:47.3	I'm stunned.
0:48.3	Go on.
0:49.3	What's your favourite day of the week?
0:52.3	Friday. Hopeful going into the weekend because I've worked all my life.
0:59.0	So Friday was like a joy.
1:03.0	Let's go from waking up to go to bed.
1:06.0	What is your idea of a Friday really well lived?
1:09.0	Hopping out of bed because it is Friday.
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:12.6	Love it.
1:13.2	You kind of hop out with a really good feeling.
1:17.1	Kind of thinking, oh my God.
1:19.3	So it's just like instant spring?
1:21.1	Instant spring.
1:22.3	You don't sit there and bed thinking about life.
1:23.7	No, not on a Friday.
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