EPISODE 78: We Forget How To Play
3/9/202638 min
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 : 'As You Turn Another Page' by Morgan Harper-Jones
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First 90 secondsTom Rosenthal· Host0:00
[footsteps] Hello. Sorry to bother you. Um, can I ask you a slightly odd question?
Speaker 2· Guest0:08
Yes, sure.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:09
Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
Okay. Oh.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:14
Where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for- Okay ... 10, 15 minutes. Um, are you up for that? Do you wanna give it a go? [upbeat music] Do you have a favorite day of the week?
Speaker 2· Guest0:49
Favorite day of the week? Saturday.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:51
Straight in there with the Saturday.
Speaker 2· Guest0:54
Yeah.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:54
Lovely. Uh, can you say why?
Speaker 2· Guest0:56
Why? Most of my children are at home, so we usually have a Saturday night together.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:03
Lovely.
Speaker 2· Guest1:03
I do a bit of shopping in the morning. I work five days a week, so Saturday I sit and have a drink and we play music and we do games. Yeah.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:12
Oh, wonderful.
Speaker 2· Guest1:13
Yeah, that's sort of my Saturday.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:14
Y- when you say most of your children are at home... What- Well, I have three.
Speaker 2· Guest1:17
Middle one has a girlfriend, so we may fluctuate as to whether- Oh, okay ... we are in the house.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:23
[laughs] That's quite fun. What's it like when your children have girlfriends suddenly?
Speaker 2· Guest1:28
It's okay.