EPISODE 61: Seven Paramedics
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 32 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
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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? |
| 0:47.3 | No. |
| 0:49.3 | No. |
| 0:50.3 | Every day is the same to me because I'm retired. |
| 0:53.3 | I lost my partner in November, so I'm bored to tears. I've got no to do, apart from come here, watch people go by, envy them because they're normally in twos, and I'm on my own. Or you can see joggers going by and thinking, I wish I could do that because I can't, because I can't walk good. Oh. But that's it, you know. I know it sounds like a soft, sob story, but it isn't. Retirement's a great life if you're healthy. And you've got hobbies and this, that, the other. Apart from that, it's not. Have you got hobbies? |
| 1:28.0 | No. |
| 1:28.9 | No. |
| 1:29.4 | No. We've got to get you some? |
| 1:30.3 | The reason I haven't got hobbies, I want a lorry driver. |
| 1:33.5 | I used to go away Sunday and come back Friday night. |
| 1:37.1 | So my hobby was going all over England, Scotland and Wales. |
| 1:40.9 | In the lorry? |
| 1:41.8 | I didn't have time for... |
| 1:43.4 | What were you driving around? |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, kitchen units. |
| 1:46.0 | Kitchen units. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, so it were all at building sites. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
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