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Sep 15
59m 35s

EPISODE 53: A Very Different Place

Tom Rosenthal
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*Content warning : this episode contains references to suicide and 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 : 'Thunder and Lightning' by Clara Mann 

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