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Oct 2024
29m 22s

EPISODE 6: Love, Death, and Parisians

Tom Rosenthal
About this episode

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 : 'To Be Held' by Augusta

Listen to it here : https://ffm.to/tobeheld


Listen to all the end songs featured on the podcast (so far) on one handy playlist :

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