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.

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.

There'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 straightforward. That is www dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

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And welcome to the rest is history now you may be wondering why I welcomed you in Serbian and the answer Tom is that we have reached the Balkan Republic in a survey of the countries that have qualified for this year's well cup in Qatar.

You chose to do Serbia. You were very keen to do it. Yeah, I was. I would have liked to have done it, but you chose to do it. What would you have chosen to do? Oh, something involving 20th century coups.

I might have chosen the black hand, but you know what Tom? I'd probably have chosen the battle of Kosovo poly. Okay, field of the black birds. That's probably what I've chosen.

Okay, you're looking deflated when we say that. Not at all. Not at all. So we obviously before recording episodes, we have discussed that we what we're going to do. So I think I ended up choosing Stefan Dushan, the great 14th century Serbian emperor. Yeah, which is what you may be expecting me to do.

No, this is what I'm expecting. I'm not going to. Oh, no, I was really forward to that. No, I was really forward to him. I've got a totally new one. And the thing that will really excite you about this is that it's prehistory of Christ. You love a bit of prehistory. Don't you? It's not science. It's prehistory. I believe you're a little based lighting up with joy, but dominate. I want that.

This is actually a brilliant, I think, and I'll be interested to see whether you agree. Okay, because basically where would you say the first script, the first written language originated? You might say Samaria. You might say Mesopotamia. You might say Nisha Novi Sad. Someone like that in Serbia.

You'd be right. Or would you? Because there is a possibility that the birthplace of written scripts was Serbia. And that Serbia was the home of one of the original great civilizations. Did you know that? No, I've never heard that claim made before.

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