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

On the evening of the 11th of September 1683 in the hills outside Vienna, the Polish king Jan Sobieski launched what remains the largest cavalry charge in history within the air his has started smashed the morale of their Ottoman opponents and driven them from the field.

Each of Vienna was lifted the tide of Ottoman imperialism was turned back in that moment. It's often said the balance of power between Christendom and Islam changed forever.

So when exactly 20 years ago, a summer bin Laden chose the same date the 11th of September to launch his attacks on New York and Washington DC. He did so very deliberately.

This was his attempt to reverse what Jan Sobieski had done outside Vienna and to pull off a similarly spectacular world changing victory that would be remembered for centuries to come.

Will it Tom Holland will 911 be remembered as long as the siege of Vienna.

That's a very good question. I suspect it will because it was filmed.

I think that anything that's filmed is destined to last. And that was a key aspect of 911 was that it was designed to have an incredible visual impact.

Planned as a spectacle, wasn't it? It's planned as a spectacle.

So we're doing this obviously because it's the 20th anniversary of 911, which when it happened felt like the most seismic of global events.

Yes.

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