EPISODE 80: Pépito
3/23/202659 min
**Content Warning - abuse and sexual assault**. 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 : 'A Light' by Núria Graham
Stream it here : https://ffm.to/alight
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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
Yeah, 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] Okay. Look, this is official now.
Speaker 2· Guest0:48
Cool.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:49
That was just rehearsal.
Speaker 2· Guest0:50
[laughs] [laughs] Is it recording or not?
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:52
What we'll do is I'll run us through very quickly what we had talked about. I asked you what your favorite day of the week is.
Speaker 2· Guest0:58
Okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:59
You said Wednesday because of your school life. No longer Wednesday 'cause you're working. It's now Friday because you have restful days to come.
Speaker 2· Guest1:06
Mm-hmm.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:07
I said, what would be your ideal Friday when you w- were not working?
Speaker 2· Guest1:10
Mm-hmm.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:11
Well, it's getting up at 7:00. It's [laughs] [laughs] Getting dressed with your Kindle.
Speaker 2· Guest1:16
Yeah.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:16
[laughs] Reading at the same time, which I've never heard of. [laughs] But I like. Did you say what you have for breakfast?
Speaker 2· Guest1:20
Yeah, my bread.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:21
Oh, the bread. Of course.
Speaker 2· Guest1:22
Come on.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:23
Oh my God.
Speaker 2· Guest1:24
It's a massive, important detail.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:26
You're dipping the massive bread- Mm-hmm ... in the