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The Rest Is History

101. James Bond

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

History

4.626.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The fictional British agent James Bond returns to our cinema screens this week, but what do the history and evolution of Ian Fleming’s iconic character tell us about our changing society? Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore 007 in both book and cinematic form.  A Goalhanger Films & Left Peg Media production Produced by Vasco Andrade Exec Producer Tony Pastor *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Restless History, Dominic. Have you heard the latest exciting news about our live tour?

0:10.0

I have, Dominic. It's actually shocking news. It's shocking but also heartening. But just to remind you the listener, the rest is history is going on a nationwide tour at the end of April 2023.

0:21.0

I say tour but it's for three nights only. We'll be in London on the 25th of April and the historic Drury Lane Theatre. Then we'll be able to Edinburgh the following evening on the 26th of April to play at Usher Hall.

0:33.0

And we will finish on the 30th of April at the Larry in Sulford Greater Manchester. But Tom, the listeners are gacking to know about this shocking news that you have for them about the tour.

0:43.0

Ladies and gentlemen, I can announce that our London live show has now sold out. I repeat, all 2000 seats, yes 2000 seats at Drury Lane Theatre are now sold out.

0:55.0

So not even frozen the musical the show that we are of course replacing at Drury Lane, not even frozen sold out that quickly.

1:03.0

I can imagine Elsa listening to this right now, fuming at the very thought of the rest is history stealing her snowy thunder. But Elsa, all I will say to you is let it go.

1:15.0

People can go to both shows.

1:17.0

But just to emphasize, that's our first live date already sold out and tickets are selling incredibly quickly for Sulford and Edinburgh too.

1:24.0

So if you do want to come, please buy your ticket right now to avoid disappointment. Now, if you've never been to one of our live shows, what a treat or wait. So we have an incredibly inventive approach.

1:34.0

Tom will take the first half and he will be running through his repertoire of Marilyn Monroe songs and I do be the do thanks for that.

1:40.0

And I will be picking up after the interval with the PowerPoint presentation on the economic policies of Stanley Baldwin. It's an absolute riot.

1:47.0

Fun for all the family. So these are our first ever shows outside London as a podcast. So we'll be putting on a tour de force. I think Dominic is the only word for it in both greater Manchester and the Scottish capital.

1:58.0

There'll be impressions, perhaps a Mureguin pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history.

2:05.0

Here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straightforward. That is www dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

2:24.0

This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew from the writer Bohemian rap city. This is what they want. America sweetheart. You won't give it to us to watch me.

2:40.0

I want to dance with somebody only in simmers from boxing day.

2:56.0

Now it may only be a myth and it is certainly not medical science, but there is a popular theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies.

3:12.0

That was in a Fleming in man with the golden gun, bond novel of course written in 1965 and with me is massive James Bond fan, Dominic Sambrut Dominic.

3:28.0

We are doing this episode on James Bond because the new Daniel Craig film no time to dies out this week. Do you imagine that that's the kind of dialogue we'll be getting?

3:39.0

I thought you could have asked me to whistle. I'm not going to whistle. I mean, I feel like it's a loose, loose, whatever I'm not going to do.

3:49.0

I think it's very bad for the reputation of this podcast if we start whistling and attempt to prove our sexuality one way or the other.

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