EPISODE 64: A Letter To My Mum
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 50 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? Right. |
| 0:44.3 | We're on. |
| 0:47.3 | Will she regret it? |
| 0:49.3 | That's the big question. |
| 0:50.3 | I know. I'm scared. |
| 0:52.3 | Don't be scared, honestly. |
| 0:53.3 | It's just two humans on a bench talking. That's all big question. I know, I'm scared. Don't be scared, honestly. It's just two humans on a bench talking. |
| 0:56.0 | That's all it is. |
| 0:58.0 | So yeah, the first question, you can't get this wrong. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Is a really easy starter. |
| 1:03.0 | Do you have a favourite day of the week? |
| 1:05.0 | I mean, Saturday, probably, one's favourite day of the week, yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | What for you is like a really great Saturday on this funny planet that we both share? |
| 1:17.9 | I would try to have a lion and it wouldn't happen. |
| 1:20.6 | Why? |
| 1:20.8 | Because obviously when you have to wake up for work on a weekday... |
| 1:24.2 | Oh, you're programmed? |
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