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 edit more of 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 awaits you. 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 restishistorypod.com. It is very, very, very straightforward. That is www.restishistorypod.com. Buy your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

Oh, death. Rock me a sleep. Bring me the quiet rest. Let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

These lines are attributed to Anne Berlin. She supposedly wrote them in 1536 in the Tower of London as she was awaiting execution at the hands of a French swordsman who had been brought over specially for the purpose by her erstwhile husband King Henry VIII,

whose marital history has inspired another poem, Divorced Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. And Dominic Sambrough with me probably the most famous, the most famously disastrous sequence of marriages in English history.

In English history, probably in the whole of history. It is a non-resistible subject, isn't it? It is the stuff of soap operas, the stuff of costume dramas. It is the stuff of about a thousand channel five documentaries.

We are well into the 70s, I think we have done over 70 episodes. It is kind of extraordinary that we have not done one before. It was so in Herkilly and Sulford strain I think. I guess if we were to do the six on the already put.

Actually the reason why we have delayed it, doing the six wives of Henry VIII, obviously there have been many, many great scholars over the years who have written about the reign of Henry VIII, one of the things of Sir Jeffrey Elton, J.G. Scarris Brick, David Starky.

But these scholars have now been joined by a new kid on the block. Dominic Sambrough, Dominic, your book, the six wives of Henry VIII.

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