EPISODE 70: When You Realise Who You Are
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 57 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 do this. |
| 0:47.3 | That's the best race to start anything. |
| 0:50.3 | You know, but you look, you'll be a, I mean, look, it's a short life, it's something different for the day. |
| 0:56.5 | You know, worst case scenario. |
| 0:58.4 | I don't know what the worst case scenario is, actually. |
| 1:00.1 | What would be the worst case scenario? |
| 1:01.3 | Worst case scenarios when you realise who you are. |
| 1:03.9 | That's the worst case scenario. |
| 1:06.5 | I'll try and, you know, I'll try and steer it away from who you are. |
| 1:09.3 | It will never be revealed. |
| 1:10.4 | It's unavoidable. |
| 1:11.4 | Okay, well. |
| 1:12.1 | Taking a long time for me to realize what I really am, yeah. Okay. And it was not good. Okay. Because I'm in a bad place, so. Okay. Well, look, let's, you know what we're gonna do? I'm gonna start as, as all these start, Everyone gets the same question at the start. |
| 1:26.1 | And the lucky few, the start one's relaxed. |
| 1:28.1 | Right. |
| 1:28.7 | So if you can spin it into darkness. start, everyone gets the same question at the start. Right, yeah. And the lucky for you, the start one's relaxed. |
| 1:28.3 | Right. |
| 1:29.3 | So if you can spin it into darkness, |
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