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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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. 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.

It's 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.

So they'll be impressions, perhaps a Mureguin pipe music and plenty of absolute lads from history. Here is how you can get tickets. Just go to rest is history pod dot com. It is very, very, very straight forward. That is www dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

Bonjour mes amis. Et bienvenue au rest is history avec moi Dominic Sandrug.

Tom, Tom, Tom, that was some beautiful French. We are well, we say it every time. No, we were in the middle of our work up marathon. I'm actually sick of saying it. We are in the middle of a world. We don't know when that what order they'll be put out in the city.

We could be the end. But who knows that's the jeopardy. It's the World Cup. We're doing a series of podcasts about the history of the competing countries choosing sort of slightly off beat subject sometimes and we come to France. Now, Tom, a few weeks ago, we did an absolutely even if I say so myself.

An absolutely magnificent podcast about French history through film with the French critic, Mura Zagga, and it was brilliant, not because of anything. It was magnificent. It was super. It was extra. And that wasn't because of anything you and I contributed at all.

It was because she was brilliant. And so if you have listened to that, go back and listen to that. If you have listened to that. Keep listening because Tom is going to Tom, you're going to do the whole podcast in a French accent or not.

No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm going to keep it very British because actually the subject today does have a British angle and indeed an American angle. And indeed, it has a link to the theme of the podcast that you were talking about, which is a film because today's subject is Louis Amy Auguste, that Le Passe, who I think can legitimately be described as the father of cine film of moving film.

Moving camera. And it's a very interesting and ultimately rather tragic and mysterious story.

That's how we like him. Have you ever heard of Louis Lepras?

I'll be honest with you. The only time I've ever heard of him is when you told me you're going to do a podcast.

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