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Mar 2025
34m 46s

EPISODE 29: Mushrooms, Mothers, and Dark...

Tom Rosenthal
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**Content warning : this episode discusses self-harm**

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: 'Losing You' by Fauzia

Stream it here: https://ffm.to/losingyou-soab


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