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Hi everybody, welcome to the Rest is History and Happy New Year.
And welcome back to the recording of the live show that Tom and I did at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 4th of May 2025.
Now, on Monday, you should have heard the first half of that show,
which was the episode on the Russian composer, Tchaikovsky.