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Hello and welcome to the first episode of The Rest is History,

and you podcast about all things historical. I'm Dominic Sambrook and my sidekick because I like

to refer to him, although he would no doubt refer to himself as my puppet master is opposite me

and it's Mr Tom Holland. Hello Tom. Thank you very much Dominic, and I'm Bivalent Introduction.

That was lovely to be here. You're looking forward to the podcast,

done a podcast before? I've never done a podcast before. I've been on lots, but I've never actually

done a podcast. But since everybody else in Britain is doing one, I thought that that

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