EPISODE 80: Pépito
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
**Content Warning - abuse and sexual assault**. 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
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, sorry to bother you. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
| 0:09.0 | I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a Bench, 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? Okay, look, this is official now. |
| 0:48.7 | Cool. |
| 0:49.8 | That was just rehearsal. |
| 0:51.4 | Is it recorded? |
| 0:52.4 | What we do is I'll run us through very quickly what we had talked about. |
| 0:57.0 | I asked you what's favorite day the week is. |
| 0:59.0 | You said Wednesday because of your school life, no longer Wednesday because you're working. |
| 1:03.0 | It's now Friday because you have restful days to come. |
| 1:07.0 | So what would be your ideal Friday when you were not working? While it's getting up at 7, it's getting dressed with your Kindle, |
| 1:15.6 | reading at the same time, which I've never heard of, but I like. |
| 1:19.6 | Did you say what you have for breakfast? |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, my bread. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, the bread, of course. |
| 1:22.6 | Come on. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh my God. |
| 1:24.6 | It's a massive important detail. |
| 1:26.6 | You're dipping the massive bread in the tea. |
| 1:31.3 | Then you're getting out and you're getting a train. Yeah. With ideally the love of your life you have not met yet. |
| 1:37.3 | Yes. We're meeting up at a train station and we're on the train together. |
| 1:41.3 | And then you're going to... |
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