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.

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.

Hello, welcome to the restishistory. This is going to be in every way a historic episode. Firstly because it's the first episode that we've done at a podcast festival.

So it's absolutely fantastic to be here. We've been going for less than a year and so to actually be here and to see you guys, I can just about see you guys out there, is really fantastic. So thanks so much for coming.

Also this is going to be a historic episode because as you can probably tell, even though they have a similar degree of follicle challenge, this is not Dominic.

This is Professor Ali Ansari of the University of St Andrews, Professor of Iranian Studies. And the reason that Ali is here rather than Dominic is because Dominic has only gone and caught Covid.

He's over the worst. I think he was quite ill, so I mustn't be horrid about it. I think he was ill. He's on his last day of quarantine. So absolutely terrible timing. But every cloud has a silver lining.

And the silver lining in this case is Ali. And those of you who are regularly listeners to the podcast may well remember the episode we did on Persia in which Ali was set the challenge of basically proving that everything came from Persia.

Which I think did rather well. You did.

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