EPISODE 84: Called To The Fanny
4/20/202655 min
*Content warning - suicide*. Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.
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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 : 'Ella's Still Alive!' by Lizzy and The Palm
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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?
Ella· Guest0:08
Yeah, sure.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:09
Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Ella· 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?
Ella· Guest0:22
[upbeat music] [birds chirping] Why am I nervous all of a sudden?
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:48
Because it's a, you know, it's a terrifying proposition, talking to a stranger on a bench. No. Because it's just life.
Ella· Guest0:53
Okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:54
And if it's all possible. You ready?
Ella· Guest0:56
I'm ready.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:57
Great. Uh, do you have a favorite day of the week?
Ella· Guest1:01
Not really, no. I guess Friday. But it kind of is meaningless 'cause I work any day, so I think that's just ingrained leftover from school.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:12
Yeah. Okay, let's imagine a Friday.
Ella· Guest1:15
Okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:15
You have complete freedom. You don't have to work.
Ella· Guest1:19
Mm-hmm.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:19
How would you spend that day? What, for you, represents a really good day spent on earth?
Ella· Guest1:26
I- On that Friday ... am