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Apr 2025
36m 48s

EPISODE 32: Becoming a Superhero

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 and mixed by Eloise Whitmore

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton 

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman


End song: 'There Are Many Ways To Say I Love You' by Edgar Hurley

Stream it here: https://ffm.to/therearemanywaystosayiloveyou


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

https://ffm.to/soabendsongs


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