West Bath soap opera podcast airs 100th episode, hits 46,000 listeners
“Now, 46,000 people in over 70 countries have listened to this podcast and it freaks me out to think of all the people I’ve reached with this soap opera, said Marsha Hinton of West Bath, creator of Restless Shores.
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WEST BATH In her West Bath living room, Marsha Hinton stabs pins into a world map hanging on the wall. Each tiny pin represents somewhere someone downloaded her soap opera podcast, “Restless Shores,” which released its 100th episode on Thursday. Some pins are as near as Brunswick while others dot countries including China, Israel and Brazil.
“Scandal, Intrigue, and Salaciousness”: Acting in a Podcast Soap Opera
Rhonda Weppler is “a smart, sexy, and calculating woman who knows how to get what she wants.” Ivan Bulgakov is a Russian mobster and not a man to be trifled with. They are also fictional characters played by two Bowdoin members of the Bowdoin community in a popular podcast drama.
Denise Shannon
“It’s fun, and it’s exciting,” says
Denise Shannon, who plays Rhonda and who, as well as being an accomplished actor (“short films, commercials, theater, life in general!”), is executive assistant to the senior vice president and dean for student affairs at Bowdoin College. Bulgakov is channeled by music scholar Tony Antolini ’63, who for many years was director of the Bowdoin chorus until his recent retirement.