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 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 riots 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 Capitol.

There'll be impressions, perhaps some Uruguayan 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 straightforward. 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 want to dance with somebody only in cinemas now.

Welcome to the rest is history, which comes not inappropriately from Greece or at least Barley from Greece.

The historian Herodotus tells the story of the battle of Thermopoli when the Spartans made their heroic stand against the Persian king Xerxes.

And afterwards when the Persians had wiped the floor with the Spartans, they asked a group of Greek deserts why there were so few Greeks at the battlefield.

And the deserts supposedly replied that the rest of the Greeks were off at the Olympic Games watching the horse racing. The Persians asked what was the prize, what was the point.

And the Greek said the prize was a crown of olive leaves. And at that the Persians supposedly cried out and gnashed their teeth and rent their garments and said what kind of men are these that we're fighting against they fight not for riches but for glory.

Now another person who fights only for glory is my collaborator Tom Holland. The translator of Herodotus's histories, no less. Tom you're very keen on the Olympics aren't you.

I imagine you're dying to see the kickoff in Tokyo you can't wait. Well, I'm breaking on the age of Olympics. I actually find them on ones.

They're rubbish.

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