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 there will 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, welcome to the rest is history. We are continuing with our World Cup marathon and today Dominic is Morocco or Mauritania as I prefer to think of it.

You don't call Morocco Mauritania. Do you? Well, when talking to Romans.

OK, fair enough. So Morocco Tom Tom, how about with Moroccan history? Are you sort of post Roman Moroccan history? I will I obviously it's from Morocco that the Mares invade Spain.

So I know about that. And I know about the way in which once the Ray conquistar in Spain has been pushed back Spanish and Portuguese forces are endlessly dipping their toes into Moroccan affairs. And then the French pilot, don't they?

They do. And there's all kinds of of shenanigans in Tangier with various loose behavior from there is loose early 20s.

Williams used to go to Morocco on holiday with Joe water. So I see me. Yeah, we will not be proud. We will not be discussing any of that that's more insolubris end of the Moroccan history spectrum.

I'm happy to say. So what have you what have you chosen? So I have chosen an enormously important and interesting war that I think very few people know anything about.

Certainly the English speaking world. And it's called the Riff war. And it took place Tom. It's sort of high point of the Riff war was the 1920s, but it had kind of been bubbling away since the beginning of the 20th century.

It is an amazing story. And I know I've got a sort of dog in the fight here, but it's got Franco is in it. Marshal Peter is in it.

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