EPISODE 88: Feels Like We're Untouchable
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 55 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. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
| 0:08.5 | I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench where essentially I talk to people I don't know on |
| 0:17.1 | benches for 10 or 15 minutes. Are you up for that? |
| 0:22.0 | Do you want to give it a go? Yeah. Exciting life, is it. |
| 0:47.3 | Anything can happen. |
| 0:49.3 | Do I mean, it's absolutely mad. |
| 0:51.3 | You ready for the first question? |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, I'm ready. |
| 0:53.3 | Is there a day of the week that you favour? |
| 0:57.4 | Oh, that's a tricky one. |
| 0:58.8 | I'd say probably Fridays. |
| 1:03.4 | It's the end of the work week. |
| 1:04.7 | You've got a weekend to look forward to. |
| 1:06.9 | You might have some plans. |
| 1:09.0 | It's a tricky one though because in some ways... |
| 1:10.7 | Well, there are the other contenders? Yeah. What's a tricky one though because in some ways... |
| 1:11.6 | Well, there are the other contenders? |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, I'd say we've... |
| 1:13.6 | What's the other contenders in every Friday? |
| 1:14.6 | This is a bit of a weird one but I'd just probably say Monday. |
| 1:18.6 | I guess it's like a fresh start to the week, like whatever's happened, his chance to go into the week fresh. |
| 1:25.6 | Hmm. So... |
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