EPISODE 95: Periscopes and Bagels

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 RosenthalEdited by Rose De LarrabeitiMixed by Mike WoolleyTheme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton Incidental music ...  Show more

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 RosenthalEdited by Rose De LarrabeitiMixed by Mike WoolleyTheme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton Incidental music ...  Show more

Katey and Quigley listen to "Strangers on a Bench," a look into the inner lives of everyday people sitting on park benches. Other topics include Tom Odell, the importance of telling stories and not being completely sure what day (or week) it is. 

On a freezing January evening, Tommie and Producer Nicky wait in a carpark for a stranger.The Interruption is solved. They know who was behind it. So why are they here? What can this stranger tell them that they don’t already know? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...  Show more

In our first episode, we take the overdone medium of podcasting and throw it to the outside world. Guests include a musician named "Dr Nick", Megan the pizza slinger, and a guy pretending to be Jon Hamm! Recorded in front of Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles. See Priva ...  Show more

Usually for this show, Rachel is in the NPR studio in Washington, D.C., and the guests are famous people in another studio. But Rachel recently brought the Wild Card deck to Washington Square Park in New York City and asked the questions to people face-to-face in the park. Today, ...  Show more