EPISODE 90: So Glad I Didn't Hide Away
6/1/20261 hr 3 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 : 'Pyrrhula pyrrhula' by Him Gone Ape
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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
Oh, okay.
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] So you've already heard two episodes? [laughs] Do you re- do you rem- [laughs] They were great.
Speaker 2· Guest0:53
One was about throwing the, the, um, mobile in the pond.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:56
Yes.
Speaker 2· Guest0:56
That was the second one. And the first one was the guy, he'd been to pri- Been to prison ... prison.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:01
Yeah.
Speaker 2· Guest1:01
Yeah, and that was brilliant.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:02
So you're s- so you're two down.
Speaker 2· Guest1:03
I am. Many, many more to go.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:06
And here we are. And here we are.
Speaker 2· Guest1:06
[laughs] Here we are. That's so strange.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:09
Can we say where we are? Are we allowed to say where we are?
Speaker 2· Guest1:11
Yeah. Why not?
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:13
We're in Lewes, uh, on a bridge that I don't know the name of, nor the river we're over.
Speaker 2· Guest1:17
No.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:17
Do you know the name of the river?
Speaker 2· Guest1:18
I should probably know that, but no, I can't remember.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:21
[laughs] But it's a good spot.
Speaker 2· Guest1:23
It's a lovely spot, yeah. It's why I chose this bench. [laughs] [laughs] The reason I'm here is because I'm on jury service.