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.restishistory pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

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In the first century BC, the philosopher Athena Doris was looking for a house to rent in Athens. He found one under remarkably good rate given how large it was. And he soon realized why.

The very first night he was working late on a ghost appeared with a long beard and bristling hair clanking its iron fetters. The ghost led him outside and indicated a spot in the courtyard. And the next day when Athena Doris had the spot dug up, his men found a pile of all bones.

After the bones had been laid to rest, the house was haunted no more. Tom Holland, that is a great story isn't it? It's a fabulous. It's never been a clinic. It is a younger clinic.

But I remember it from childhood. I had a the bumper book of both ghosts. And that was the very first story in it and it had a fabulous black and white illustration of Athena Doris and the ghost with the manacles and the beard creeping up behind him.

So I remember it very, very vividly. And the ghosts have always I've always loved stories about ghosts. And in fact, over the course of the lockdown, one of my activities was to go on ghost hunting walks across London.

So I did two huge walks up to the tower across London back down again. And I went right right the way up to high gate cemetery, which boasts perhaps the most haunted road in Britain.

It's got the high gate vampire. It's got a kind of strange psychic blob that creeps up on people and then leaps away all kinds of terrifying things. But at the top of the top of that road, there is pond square.

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