EPISODE 87: Charge It To The Game
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 64 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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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 on a bench. but it started raining. |
| 0:58.0 | Heavily. |
| 0:59.0 | So this is a bench first. |
| 1:02.0 | We are on a bench. |
| 1:03.0 | Technically. |
| 1:04.0 | Technically. |
| 1:05.0 | But this bench is in your van. |
| 1:08.0 | 100%. |
| 1:09.0 | It is a small little leggie boy, but it's a bit. |
| 1:11.6 | You know? |
| 1:12.6 | There you go. |
| 1:13.6 | So, this is new territory. |
| 1:16.6 | Okay, shall I tell you how this works? |
| 1:18.6 | Let's go. |
| 1:19.6 | There's a start question and an end question that's the same for everyone who does this. |
| 1:24.6 | And whatever happens in the middle just happens in the middle. If there's any questions you don't like, just do they shove me out of the van. |
| 1:30.3 | Sounds good. |
| 1:32.0 | Sounds all right. |
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