EPISODE 63: All You Need Is One Good Night
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 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
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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? You're feeling good? |
| 0:46.3 | Me and you on the bench is only going to happen once ever. |
| 0:50.3 | I remember this for the rest of my life. |
| 0:53.3 | Let's hope so. Let's hope so. |
| 0:54.7 | Let's hope so. |
| 0:56.5 | Hey, let's do it. |
| 0:58.6 | First question, easy. |
| 1:01.2 | Is there a day of the week that you favour? |
| 1:05.1 | Has to be the weekends, Saturday. |
| 1:07.3 | Everyone's out, no one's working, when the sun is out, you know, having a cocktail, April Sprits. |
| 1:13.6 | Abril Sprits? |
| 1:14.6 | That's what, it has been April Sprits. |
| 1:15.6 | This is the fastest anyone's mentioned in April Sprits. |
| 1:18.6 | I reckon they get us probably 13 seconds before after all Spritz came in. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, it has to be April Sprits. |
| 1:22.6 | How early can you have an Appar Sprits on a Saturday? |
| 1:25.6 | As early as you need. |
| 1:26.6 | Once you see the sun, apple spits on your hands. |
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