EPISODE 86: Talking To Gina
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 47 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
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, sorry to bother you. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
| 0:10.2 | 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. |
| 0:19.6 | Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? So traditionally, obviously I get built to be anonymous so I don't say their name. |
| 0:51.3 | And I find if I need to remind myself your name, I'm touching your name. |
| 0:56.6 | You are. |
| 0:57.3 | It's a funny thought, isn't it? |
| 0:58.6 | Yes. |
| 0:59.7 | There you are. |
| 1:01.4 | Are we recording? |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, we're recording now. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay. |
| 1:04.5 | We're on. |
| 1:05.7 | This is the reason why I'm here. |
| 1:09.8 | Right. |
| 1:10.7 | Okay. So, on one side of the bench, your side you're sitting on, it says Gina. |
| 1:21.6 | And then on this side of the bench that I'm sitting on, it says, and Sue. |
| 1:30.3 | Yep. |
| 1:31.3 | So, I mean, do you want to tell me about all this? |
| 1:38.3 | Who's Gina? |
| 1:39.3 | She was my wife. |
| 1:55.0 | She died last year, as you can see. She did it. And she wanted a bench here. We chose this spot. Well, I chose this spot, well I chose this spot because... |
| 2:05.6 | In the last couple of years of life, she was quite disabled. |
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