EPISODE 82: The Only Mussel Road in Cornwall
4/6/20261 hr 4 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: 'Mussel Shell Road' by Toby & Jen Kessell
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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· Host0:10
Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
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· Guest0:48
A day off?
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:50
Day of the week.
Speaker 2· Guest0:51
No, just a day off.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:53
Any day off.
Speaker 2· Guest0:54
Any day off.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:54
Any day off is great.
Speaker 2· Guest0:56
[laughs] Is my favorite day of the week.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:57
[laughs] Okay. Let's imagine a day off.
Speaker 2· Guest1:00
Yep, yep.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:01
What for you is a perfect day lived on this funny Earth thing- Okay ... we call home?
Speaker 2· Guest1:08
We call home, this funny Earth thing. And my perfect day, I have three children, so if I could see all of them, that would always be my first starting spot. I have two granddaughters, so if I can see them...
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:22
This is also good ...
Speaker 2· Guest1:25
this makes my day.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:26
But can we start from waking up?
Speaker 2· Guest1:27
Well, okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:28
I need to, we need to start in bed. Presuming