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 they'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 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.

Once there was darkness and then there was light. Once human beings lived in a state of superstition and savagery enslaved by magic and the doctrines of the Catholic church.

And then beginning in the sallons of 18th century France, a group of thinkers in weeks led them out into the light of reason, science, revolution and the guillotine.

That's the traditional. That's the Dominic. That's the traditional explanation of the enlightenment. Anyway, and I'm joined by my very own Jean-Jacques Russo, a man of chili cerebral faith. Tom Holland.

Tom, was that a fair description of the enlightenment, do you think? Well, you could almost have been describing the Protestant Reformation, of course. I could. Yes, well, go on to say won't we whether they are different or not.

Well, yes, I mean, I know that I'm kind of nervous about what I'm about to say because I know that certain listeners to the podcast have begun the a drinking game in which huge amounts of alcohol have to be drunk if I mentioned Christianity.

Essentially, essentially, the mythology of the enlightenment, yes, that it's an emancipation, not just from the Catholic church, but from Christianity and religion, full stop. Yes.

Whereas I think that that is a myth and the reason that, you know, I point out that your description of the enlightenment could equally have applied to the Protestant Reformation and indeed with certain kind of provisos with how Christianity saw itself against the context of pre-Christian paganism.

Yes, I think that the enlightenment is best understood as one of the great mutational processes in the history of Christian Europe.

And Western thought, Tom, I mean, it's bigger than just Christian Europe, is that? Well, I'm not sure about that. I mean, that said them.

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