EPISODE 9: Deli Meets

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 28 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 : 'Nice to Meet You' by Tom Odell

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:07.0	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? First question, nice and easy one.
0:47.3	Gentle, gentle in question.
0:50.3	What's your favourite day of the week?
0:55.2	Sunday.
0:57.3	Why?
0:59.2	Relaxing day.
1:01.4	It's poor peace.
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:04.6	Tell me what you do on Sunday to relax.
1:10.5	Well, I just get up and don't rush everything. Nowadays, on the Sunday, sometimes.
1:13.6	Later on in the day, lunchtime, I go to the cemetery.
1:18.6	Lovely. Go to the cemetery or lunchtime.
1:21.6	Who'd you go and see?
1:23.6	My partner.
1:25.6	Who's dead?
1:26.6	Who's dead? Your daughter's dead as well? Yeah. Oh God, sorry about that. My partner And my daughter
1:27.5	Who's dead?
1:28.6	Your daughter's dead as well?
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