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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I love the sound of podcasts on the Vietnam War in the morning. It sounds like the rest is history. It is indeed the rest of history and our theme today is the Vietnam War Dominic.

Hello Tom. A field of particular interest to you, I think. Yes, I'm sure listeners will be thrilled to hear that this is the sort of the subject of my PhD. So my PhD was on a very little known American politician called Eugene McCarthy who ran for president in 1968 against the Vietnam War. He thought it was a bad idea and he basically toppled Lyndon Johnson who was the sort of democratic incumbent over the issue of the war.

And so, you know, I spent I wasted three years reading about the anti-war movement and writing this sort of unread PhD, but not not wasted because now you can entertain and inform our listeners exactly the depth of your scholarship.

Exactly. I knew it would be worth it. I knew one day after having spent a year in an archive in Minneapolis or other in St. Paul, the twin city in Minneapolis. I knew that one day I would get 45 minute podcast.

Oh, listen as how lucky you are. But Dominic, we fed say that because the Vietnam War is not just about the reactions to the Vietnam War in America, there is actually fighting going on in China.

Yes, do we have a world-beating expert? Well, on the way we needed somebody at the absolute top of the game. I thought of an old friend of mine who is absolutely steeped in the Vietnam War as devoted much of his career to it.

He sadly can't make it. So we've got we've got Professor Andrew Preston from Cambridge, who's another ex acquaintance of mine soon to be former friend once he's done this podcast.

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