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 dot rest is history pod dot com by your tickets now to Sulford and Edinburgh before it's too late.

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In February 2018, the winter Olympics were held in South Korea and there was obviously huge interest in the presence at these games of an North Korean team.

And perhaps the most dramatic and sensational contribution to the Olympics from the North Koreans was the figure skating competition at which Rihom, Tai, Ok and Kim Ju-sik performed a stunning routine.

And the music to which they performed this routine was a day in the life by the Beatles, the last track on perhaps their most famous album, Sergeant Peppers, Lonely Hearts Club Band.

So in 2018, it was what? It was 51 years since Sergeant Peppers had taught the band to play. And yet here were figure skaters from perhaps the most isolationist regime on the face of the planet.

And then there was a state absolutely committed in its opposition to everything that the West represented, choosing a track from a pop group that had split up many, many decades before.

And I think it's a kind of stunning tribute to the enduring influence of the Beatles and a tribute that I think entirely justifies studying them not as musicians but as I think seminal figures in modern history.

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