EPISODE 8: Youngest of Six

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

Conversation, Strangers, Park, Society & Culture, Random, Bench, Documentary

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 23 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 : 'Everything I Need' by Maddie Ashman

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Transcript

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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 is your favourite day of the week?
0:45.3	Oh, probably Saturday.
0:50.3	Can we say why?
0:53.3	Sunday you're kind of getting ready for the week.
0:56.0	And then Friday you've just unwinded from the week.
1:00.0	So Saturday is kind of, I feel like you're just yourself.
1:05.0	If your dream Saturday could happen, what does it look like?
1:10.0	Nice lion.
1:11.6	Full English.
1:13.6	Really, it's like slow, chill morning.
1:16.6	Just chill in the park with friends.
1:19.6	And then a nice meal.
1:21.6	Dessert, of course.
1:23.6	Come back, watch a movie. I like that you put dessert in there, just in case.
1:30.3	Yeah, I love, that's mandatory.
1:32.3	I'm also a dessert fan.
1:33.3	Yeah.
1:34.3	So, tell me how you feel about London.
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