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.

The Germans are a good people on the whole the best people perhaps in the world and amiable unsulfished kindly people and positive that the vast majority of them go to heaven indeed comparing them with the other Christian nations of the earth when it's forced to the conclusion that heaven will be chiefly of German manufacture.

Now that was the comic writer Jerome K Jerome in his book three men on a bumble published in 1900 and I'll try to remember those words when in this week's Titanic footballing clash between our two great nations.

The last German penalty screams into the net and it is heartbreak for England yet again. Tom Tom Holland. It is just as well as know that the Germans don't play cricket. Imagine that.

Well, they actually don't know if they do and they do probably the most humiliating moment in last year's lamentable moments on the covid front in England was when Germans came out of lockdown before we did.

And as a result, they were playing cricket when it was banned in England. So I think that's the only time probably in history that cricket has been legal in Germany and banned in England.

That's a bad for me. It was a terrible moment. I still haven't read the end of days. Yeah, that's what it felt like. I mean, that's when it really hit me.

Have we ever, obviously, we've played Germany multiple times in different arenas. Have we ever played them a cricket?

They think we have, but it's obviously a matter of time. Yeah, they actually watching their path to greatness.

Imagine that moment when they win when they win at lords or something. I know. I know on penalties. I'm sure they're by no way to do it.

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