EPISODE 6: Love, Death, and Parisians

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 29 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 : 'To Be Held' by Augusta

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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? Is there a day of the week that you favour?
0:48.3	Yeah, I like the Wednesdays.
0:51.3	Wednesdays.
0:52.3	Yeah.
0:53.3	Why? It's the middle of the week and when the Wednesday starts, it's like the end of the week starting
1:01.0	and it's the moment when you can hang out and go out with friends and stuff.
1:06.0	Mondays and Tuesdays are like the days when you have to do your stuff like serious stuff and then
1:11.7	after Wednesday it's chilling I love that mentality that's great yeah although
1:16.6	today is a Monday yeah and you're doing what looks like at least quite a relaxing
1:22.0	thing in a relaxing place yeah well I'm in holidays so it doesn't really count it's
1:27.1	always Wednesday there's always Wednesday on holiday.
1:30.1	What is exciting you at the moment about your life?
1:35.3	I quit my job a couple of months ago, and now I'm kind of excited by the opening of opportunities.
1:48.0	Yes, perfect.
1:49.0	Yeah, so now every time when I wake up, I'm like, okay, what I'm going to do today?
1:55.0	I'm not going to look for a job.
1:58.0	I'm going to just enjoy and do the stuff I would like to do.
2:01.6	Can you tell me about the moment you decided to quit your job?
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