EPISODE 68: I Hate This House
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 55 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 : 'I Hate This House' by Jas Ratchford
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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? What's your favourite day of the week? |
| 0:49.1 | Friday. |
| 0:50.0 | Straight off. Why? |
| 0:52.2 | It always used to be the end of the working week and although I don't work anymore, |
| 0:55.0 | it stayed as a favourite day and there's a lightness about a Friday. So Monday today, it's lovely, |
| 1:01.7 | but there's not that lightness there on a Friday. So you still feel heavy on a Monday even now? |
| 1:06.3 | No, I don't feel heavy. I just feel lighter on a Friday. |
| 1:14.6 | Okay, let's go from this Friday from the start of it to the end of it. Yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | How are you spending an ideal Friday? |
| 1:17.6 | Waking up without back pain, doing a bit of exercise, looking at the weather, planning a walk, going for a walk. It could be two hours, it could be four hours. |
| 1:33.5 | Quite a chunky walk? Yes. Four hours? Yeah. How many miles per hour is that? |
| 1:40.0 | I've no idea. Well, it's just walking speed. Well, I'm sitting now looking at the little ducklings, so I factor in sitting down. |
| 1:47.1 | Oh, I see. So is that part of the four hour? |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah. Well, not always, but sometimes. |
| 1:51.4 | I always like to do some hills, because hills, I think that's the exercise bit. |
| 1:55.1 | So I'll go up and down a few hills. |
| 1:58.8 | Home, chat with the husband few chores read the paper that's about it really do you not walk with |
| 2:09.9 | the husband no why he's got a bad back so of you and he walked too slowly he walks too slowly |
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