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.

Hello and welcome to the rest is history world cup special. We're going through all the various countries that are competing in this year's world cup and a couple of days ago.

I very much focused on Dido, the legendary founder of the city of Carthage and Dominic today you have someone with the name Gannibal, which is I gather the Russian, the way the Russians pronounce Hannibal, the great military hero Conqueror of the Carthaginians.

But this person is he's not Carthaginian, is he? He is from today's country, which is Cameroon. He is from Cameroon. So I don't know if they are. Well, which comes to this. How are you with Cameroon in history, generally Tom?

Not probably not as they say fairs I could be. Well, I think it's fair to say that a lot of Cameroon in history is terror incognita for many British and indeed English speaking listeners. So I mean Cameroon historically was never obviously single nation states. It was a place of competing kingdoms and chieftains. Do you know where the name Cameroon comes from? I didn't know this actually until I looked it up.

No, it comes from friends, the Portuguese. Yes, probably most yes, that would make sense. So there's a really only thing I know about about Cameroon is Roger Miller.

Right, 1990. Yeah, 1990, 1990. We are called to find anything in the workout. They do get the course of ours and lost to Gary Lenek as England. I don't really know anything else beyond that. So before to be educated.

There's a river called the Wury and the Portuguese when they sailed up that in their 16th century. It was full of shrimps and they called it the Rio dos Camerois.

Okay, and that became Cameroon. So it could it could have been Langas de Nail, something if the Spanish had got there. Yes, very good. Well, anyway, what's now Cameroon was colonized by the Germans and then it was divided up between Britain and France at the end of the first World War.

And then obviously became independent. But although this is a podcast about the history of Cameroon and about one of Cameroon's most famous sons.

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