Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
Documentary and investigations · Ongoing · ~59 min · Explicit
Taste attributes: documentarytalk-showslowfresh & originalwholesomeheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringunlikely connections
Boxlist takeInventive and intimate: a stirring documentary podcast, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Taste details
Pace: slow · Originality: very fresh · Tone: wholesome · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
Based on your film and TV taste: podcasts are matched on the same ten characteristics, with your own match bands.
About this podcast
Have you ever walked past a mysterious stranger on a park bench and wondered about their lives? Tom Rosenthal (singer-songwriter by trade) has spent the past year walking through various parks across the UK and Ireland, approaching random bench-dwellers and asking if he can sit next to them and reco…
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- Publisher
- Tom Rosenthal
- Format
- Ongoing
- Typical episode
- About 59 minutes
- Latest episode
- 10 August 2026
- Categories
- Documentary, Society & Culture
- Taste scores
- How we score
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Podcasts are scored on the same ten characteristics as films and matched with your own match bands, from your film and TV taste. The scores are estimates, from fixed rules plus a one-off AI reading of each show's own description and episode titles. Quality badges never change your match.
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