EPISODE 72: Just Ask The Trees
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 46 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. |
| 0:06.0 | 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? Do you have a favourite day of the week? |
| 0:48.3 | Drum roll? |
| 0:51.3 | I think it's Monday now. |
| 0:53.3 | You mean you think it's Monday now or you think it's Monday? |
| 0:56.6 | It used to not be Monday. |
| 0:57.9 | It used to be probably more like the typical Friday, Saturday. |
| 1:01.5 | But then this year I've not been working and so Mondays is like, I drop my son at school |
| 1:07.1 | and then come for a walk and so I really enjoy like just some time to myself. |
| 1:11.1 | So like I was just thinking it has become probably my favourite way to start a week. |
| 1:15.6 | This is very good. |
| 1:17.6 | How do you spend these Mondays? What's the dream one? |
| 1:21.6 | There's a backstory to how my dream has changed for Mondays. |
| 1:25.6 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:26.6 | So at the start of this year, I was diagnosed with cancer. |
| 1:29.3 | And it coincided with me knowing I want to take a break from work, |
| 1:32.3 | so thankfully I had just finished working. |
| 1:35.3 | So I kind of found myself in between hospital appointments |
| 1:38.3 | with a lot of stuff going on in my head. |
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