EPISODE 69: I've Never Felt This Way Before
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 40 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? Here we're rolling. Ready for the first one? Yeah, go on then. It's only going to happen once, me and you on a bench. |
| 0:52.3 | That's funny thought. I didn't even think it would have happened in the first place. |
| 0:56.0 | I mean, probably the only two people doing this right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Almost certainly in London. |
| 1:00.0 | Is this London? |
| 1:01.0 | Can you count it? |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, God, is this? Yeah, good question. |
| 1:03.0 | Is this London? |
| 1:04.0 | Is it? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, we're actually in... |
| 1:07.0 | Can we anywhere? |
| 1:08.0 | Madagascar right now. No one's going to know, you know? Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | They don't know what we look like. |
| 1:12.6 | They don't know what I look like. |
| 1:13.6 | They don't know what I look like. They've got no idea what you look like. Do you want to say what you look like? Rough right now. This isn't the first question by the way, describe yourself. Is it not? We haven't got us the first one yet. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm at 5, 4, 5.5. |
| 1:29.6 | Blonde. No. We haven't got us the first one yet. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm at 5, 4, 5, 5.5. Blonde. |
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