Episode 296. Davey’s Thameside Walk

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”The Reduced Shakespeare Company PodcastUK Production Manager Davey Naylor gives us on an epic tour of the Thames Embankment from Vauxhall Bridge to London Bridge. Featuring famous landmarks as Cleopatra’s Needle and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the source of the phrase “monstrous carbuncle“, historical trivia, the new name for the tower which holds Big Ben, confused movies, and the answer to the question, “Who is the Golden Hinde of the Reduced Shakespeare Company?” (Length 28:10)

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Beardedian · August 7, 2012 at 11:42 am

Great episode, so much knowledge imparted

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