Episode 1. Who Are We?

Published by austin on December 7, 2006December 7, 2006

“Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin host the first ever Reduced Shakespeare Company podcast! Featuring a look back at the history of the company and a look ahead at exciting things to come. (MP3. Length 19:56)

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Categories: Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Tags: Austin TichenorReed Martin

2 Comments

austin · July 16, 2016 at 6:34 am

Hi Megan —

Great question! Here’s the link to episode 449, and you can follow the Older Posts link at the bottom of the page to find previous episodes. There’s supposed to be a link where you can find episodes by YEAR, but I can’t find it! I’ll keep looking! http://www.reducedshakespeare.com/category/podcasts/page/11/

Megan N Westbrook · July 14, 2016 at 8:35 am

Hi RSC,

I was wondering to see how to download the beginning portion of the RSC podcast on itunes before episode 450. I have episodes 450-500 downloaded on itunes because that’s all that’s showing so far. I know on the RSC website, you have the podcasts you’ve guys done.

Thanks

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