A new series of Ludwig starts on @BBCOne at 9pm! The first three episodes will then be available on @BBCiPlayer but you'll have to wait until September for episodes 4-6. Hope you enjoy it!
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Outside the UK, Eire, or Australia? You can now watch a load of Mitchell and Webb sketches on YouTube plus a new series of us discussing them in a soundproofed void. If you're inside those places you can't for legal reasons! So it's all good! 'Subscribe'!
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I am in Last One Laughing series 2. They're calling it "season 2" but I am predictably resisting that. The first three episodes are available on @primevideouk NOW. Here is the official trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=GsEWNV…. Here is the official hashtag: #LastOneLaughingUK.
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Announcement! I provide the voice of Theo the rabbit in #HeyAJ, which launches on @DisneyJr on 13th Jan (& @DisneyPlus from 14th). I haven't played a rabbit since a 1985 school production of Winnie-the-Pooh, for which, I regretfully confess, no rights payment was made to Disney.
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Good news if you're in London next week and fancy watching me have a chat with Ben Elton: you can! Tickets available here: waterstones.com/events/what-ha…
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It's episode 4 of #mitchellandwebbarenothelping tonight, at 10pm on @Channel4, and here is a sketch that is in it:
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Hope you enjoyed last Friday's show. Here's a sketch from NEXT week's! #mitchellandwebbarenothelping
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Below is a sketch from last week's episode of #mitchellandwebbarenothelping. It contains lavatorial humour.
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Here's a trailer for Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, a new sketch show which starts next month on @Channel4. I'm posting the phone-shaped version but it'll be television-shaped when it's on television. #MitchellAndWebb @arobertwebb @5tevieM
@kfRedhot @lararicote #KrystalEvans
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"Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping", a new sketch show featuring @arobertwebb, @5tevieM, @kfRedhot, @lararicote, Krystal Evans and me, starts NEXT MONTH on @Channel4! Here's a little taster to get you in the holiday mood.
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Congratulations to @MyTCpod and @fentonstevens on their 500th episode! In celebration I have been authorised to share this clip of its guest Josh Widdicombe talking about what things were like when he was a lad which, to be honest, I thought he still was. linktr.ee/mytcpod
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Look at who is on tonight's episode of @UnbelieveTruth! And look at the plugs in the back of that equipment! A visual feast to advertise an aural one. Tune in to hear @henningwehn, @Iansmithcomedy, @lucyportercomic and @zoelyons on @BBCRadio4 at 6.30pm.
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Hello people in the USA and Canada! #Ludwig launches today on @BritBox_US and @Britbox_CA, so here's a trailer. I hope you enjoy the trailer and then watch the show and enjoy the show. Yes, those are my not entirely selfless hopes.
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I’d just like to point out that a book about kings and queens makes an equally good festive gift when in paperback. waterstones.com/book/unruly/da…
amazon.co.uk/Unruly-Bestsel…
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It's the last episode in the current series of #Ludwig tonight! (@BBCOne 9pm.) Thanks so much for all the nice comments - I'm thrilled that so many people have enjoyed the show.
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How old would you say Ex-Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries is? I can’t really put a ceiling on it. But, if pressed, I would guess somewhere between 250 and 300.
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Tonight's episode of #Ludwig features, I am very pleased and proud to say, the wonderful Derek Jacobi. It's on @BBCOne at 9pm, as well as @BBCiPlayer at ALL TIMES.
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Tonight episode 4 of #Ludwig will be on @BBCOne at 9pm. I don't want to give too much away but, any one point, my character looks disapprovingly at a hard hat. (It's also on @BBCiPlayer.)
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I'm delighted to say that #Unruly, my book about England's kings and queens, is not only available in the US and Canada but is available IN PAPERBACK in those countries. It feels like the only reason left not to buy it is that you don't want to.
linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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The second episode of #Ludwig is on @BBCOne at 9pm tonight and it features the amazing Felicity Kendal. And of course the WHOLE SERIES is on @BBCiPlayer as well. So you really don't have to not watch it unless you want to.
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The new detective show I'm in, #Ludwig, starts today. It's on @BBCOne at 9pm. Below is a trailer made the right shape for you to view on your phone! If this isn't enough to persuade you to watch, tune into @BBCTheOneShow or @BBCFrontRow later and I'll persuade you some more.
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I'm excited to announce the start of a new detective show which I'm in, alongside the brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin. It's called Ludwig and episode one is on Weds 25th September at 9pm on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer. I think it's gripping, funny and intriguing. I hope you will too.
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Quite a ballsy admission from the prime minister today...
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If you’re tired of thinking about the election, why not take a brain bath and think about medieval history? Here’s a video about Sutton Hoo, and a simpler time when our leaders got buried in their favourite boats. It is available with an accompanying book: shor.by/UNRULY
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Aren't politicians flawed? All of them! So flawed! Why do we have to get bossed around by all these flawed people?! Is it really too much to expect the country to be run by someone flawless? King Arthur, for example. My book, Unruly, offers an explanation: shor.by/UNRULY
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If Trump's criminal conviction has given you a taste for the humiliation of powerful people with weird gold things balanced on their heads, then you might enjoy my book about kings and queens. Some of them had a hell of a time. It's out now in paperback. waterstones.com/book/unruly/da…
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I have an unremarkable announcement to make. Is it okay if I make it without standing in the pouring rain? I hope so. It is this: my book, Unruly, is out in paperback! Yes! Pretty predictable! But it is exciting for me because I think paperbacks are NICER THAN HARDBACKS!
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Kevin Costner is looking a lot like Bruce Forsyth these days.
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Another brand new @WILTY_TV is on today at 9pm on @BBCOne. The people in it are @BabatundeComedy, @jessicaknappett, @mikebubbins and @ClaudiaWinkle, and here’s a picture of them as proof they genuinely turned up.
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Tonight’s brand new @WILTY_TV features Jo Brand, @IvoGraham, @sinittaofficial and @Johnny_Marr and is on @BBCOne at exactly the same time as the Nine O’Clock News used to be, which just about says it all.
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This week’s brand new episode of @WILTY_TV features @CCfunkandsoul, @theJeremyVine, @ThatGledhill and @shaziamirza1, and is on @BBCOne at the slightly later time of 9pm. Sadly though, since it was recorded last year, it’s too late for us to add any swearing.
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I very much enjoyed chatting to @GylesB1 for @therosebudpod. The episode with me in is out today and they've sent me a clip:
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Another brand new @WILTY_TV is on @BBCOne at 8pm today, featuring @KimberleyJWalsh, @Mellor76, @CharleneWhite and Sam Campbell. Below is a picture of us all looking at a photographer - and it turned out, he had his camera with him!
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Today at 8pm on
@BBCOne another new episode of @WILTY_TV will be broadcast! The guests are @fatjacko, @GabbyLogan, @BridgetChristie and @ItsBigZuu, all of whom are in the photograph below.
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Another brand new episode of @WILTY_TV is on @BBCOne at 8pm today. It features @itsDannyJones, @ShappiKhorsandi, @FryRsquared
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@charltonbrooker. Here is a photo to help prepare you for my shirt.
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It's episode two of the brand new series of @WILTY_TV on @BBCOne tonight. It features @LucyABeaumont, @frankieboyle, Abby Cook and @MoTheComedian and, due to bad planning, is on at a different time to last week's: 8pm not 8.30pm. Please still watch it.
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The brand new series of @WILTY_TV starts tonight! I know the Christmas Special was a week ago but that was NOT PART OF THE SERIES. Tonight is the proper series and the first episode features @chrismccausland, @MissAlexjones, @RavWilding and Su Pollard! It's on @BBCOne at 8.30pm.
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It’s the @WILTY_TV Christmas Special TONIGHT at 8pm on @BBCOne! And look who’s on it! @TVNaga01, @VictoriaCoren (who is also MY WIFE!), Alex Brooker and the wonderfully festive Melvyn Hayes. And please don’t worry: we do not wear those hats throughout.
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Want to break up the monotony of Christmas music? Why not listen to me reading out a history book I've written for 11 hours? That will break it up by establishing a NEW monotony! Seven hours in you'll be begging for a return to Mariah Carey. #Unruly adbl.co/3OxNQ0O
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My publishers have released a new photo of my book! It's flaunting its endpapers. Specifically the endpapers it has at the beginning, the beginning being in a sense an end, as in one end of it. If you would like to buy it FOR CHRISTMAS this link can help: shor.by/UNRULY
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Unruly, my book about England's kings and queens, is also available in the U.S. and Canada where it is published by @CrownPublishing: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada. In order to hammer home this point they have put four copies of their edition of the book on a chair. See below.
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Nearly Christmas! England was founded at Christmas. Sort of. William I was crowned and the current monarchy began. On Christmas Day 1066. It all started with people having to work on a bank holiday. How apt. My book about it is available HALF PRICE here: bit.ly/3undXQp
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Do you get a discount if you buy the car that Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak helped make?
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Today is Black Friday, a day invented to strong arm people who are terrible at gift buying into making foolish purchases. That being said my book Unruly is currently half price on Amazon and might go down better than socks or marzipan: bit.ly/3undXQp
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It's Thanksgiving in the US, but a normal Thursday in the UK. Why are the British so ungrateful? We have the Battle of Hastings to look back on! My (audio)book Unruly is FULL of disastrous events we can be truly thankful are over. adbl.co/3OxNQ0O
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Just a reminder that Unruly, my book about England's kings and queens, is also available in the U.S. and Canada! If you live there, you can order your copy here, and it will arrive there: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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The last Outsiders of the series starts in 2 hours and 34 minutes on @davechannel! It contains the following political masterclass.
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Outsiders series 3 MUST END TODAY (as they say about sales). So your last chance to see it is tonight at 10pm on @davechannel (apart from an infinite number of other chances via @UKTVPlay). Here is a clip:
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The last episode in the current series of Outsiders is on @davechannel tomorrow night at 10pm! You could watch it? Or you could watch it on a subsequent occasion, along with all the previous episodes, on @UKTVPlay? To help with your decision-making process, here is a clip.
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Many happy returns to His Majesty the King on the occasion of his 75th birthday. And let’s hope nobody tarnishes this special day by exploiting it for commercial gain. For other reflections from me about the monarchy, why not buy my book, Unruly? shor.by/UNRULY
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What are all those chairs doing in the way? Why did they do the photo in the chair storage corner? Who is running this fucking country?
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Sutton Hoo, Ralph Fiennes and the Romans. That's what this video is about. If you enjoy it, you might also like my book, #Unruly, which you can order now: shor.by/UNRULY
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Here's another nice clip! Outsiders, series 3, episode 5, tonight 10pm on @davechannel. It has never before been broadcast!
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Just 0 sleeps until the next episode of Outsiders! Unless you're planning a nap! Don't nap during it, though - or, if you do, please don't tell the advertisers. Here is a clip. The whole programme is on @davechannel at 10pm.
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It's episode 5 of the brand new series of Outsiders tomorrow night on @davechannel. Here's a clip. The rest of it is on in 27 hours and 40 minutes' time.
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Yet ANOTHER clip from tonight's Outsiders! It must feel like I've shown you the whole episode in instalments. But no, compared to these snippets, the actual programme is unbelievably long. Clear you diary from 10pm this evening and settle yourself in front of @davechannel.
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A quick clip-bearing reminder that episode 4 of the new series of Outsiders is on @davechannel at 10pm tonight and then on @UKTVPlay afterwards.
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Episode 4 of the brand new series of Outsiders is on tomorrow night at 10pm on @davechannel. Please enjoy this little bit of it in advance.
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In which I share a devastating analysis of Hans Holbein's depictions of King Henry VIII... If you want to hear more rude remarks about the powerful but now dead, you can download my UNRULY audiobook: adbl.co/3OxNQ0O
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Nothing says it's the weekend like monarchical maladies, so here's a quiz in which you have to match the ruler to whatever made them feel like shit! My ulterior motive is to remind you that I've written a book, Unruly, about these people, purchasable here: shor.by/UNRULY
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All the key details of when and where to watch tonight's brand new episode of Outsiders are on the "social asset" below, accompanied by a mournful picture of me dressed, as @GuzKhanOfficial put it, in my "Inspector Holmes" outfit.
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Another clip from episode 3 of the brand new series of Outsiders. The rest of the episode, plus this bit again, is on @davechannel at 10pm tonight and then available on @UKTVPlay for centuries afterwards.
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Episode 3 of the brand new series of Outsiders is on tomorrow night at 10pm on @davechannel. Here's a clip (I refuse to call it a "sneak preview" because it is entirely legitimate that I show it to you and in fact part of the programme's openly acknowledged marketing strategy):
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The UNRULY audiobook is nearly 12 hours long, the same as the drive from Inverness to Hastings. If you love history or driving, you could do the two together! Click here to buy or for an extract that'll run out before you reach the outskirts of Inverness: adbl.co/3OxNQ0O
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Breakfast in a night cap?! An outdoor bed?! See this insanity contextualised in 4.3 hours' time in tonight's brand new episode of Outsiders on @davechannel.
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Here's a clip from tonight's brand new episode of Outsiders which will be on @davechannel at 10pm this evening!
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What, in general, is going on? If you have ever wondered that, you're probably a human. But how to find the answer? In this video, I talk about what I think is the best way. If you agree, you might like my book #Unruly: shor.by/UNRULY, STILL half price at Waterstones:
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Will you be in Oxford on Monday?
Do you have plans? Who has plans on a Monday?!
I’ll be there at the @NewTheatreOx being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, hosted by the wonderful @MostlyReading. If you'd like to come along, you can get tickets here:  atgtickets.com/shows/david-mi…
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Henry VIII's "Green Flag" wife. If only she'd seen all his red flags. You can hear more of this in the audiobook of Unruly: adbl.co/3OxNQ0O
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It all kicks off tonight at 10pm on @davechannel. If you miss it, it'll be on @UKTVPlay. Hope you find it ENORMOUSLY ENJOYABLE.
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Replying to @RealDMitchell
Plus the brilliance of @chrismccausland and @thatlaurasmyth...
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A brand new series of Outsiders starts tonight on @davechannel. Please enjoy the intense amusingness of @alandaviescomic and @Roisinconaty...
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If you're thinking of buying UNRULY (my book about England’s Kings and Queens) this weekend, then at
@waterstones you can do so at HALF price. Which, in capitalist terms, makes every single page of it TWICE as good. You can order it here: shor.by/UNRULY
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Replying to @WernhamPaul
I'm old-fashioned.
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It’s publication day for #Unruly in the U.S. and Canada! Would you like to know more about the mirky beginnings of your former and current royal families respectively? If so, you might enjoy it and it's out now: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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A brand new series of Outsiders starts on @davechannel on 11th October and features the following amazing people: @alandaviescomic, @Roisinconaty, @GuzKhanOfficial, @1Judilove, @chrismccausland and @thatlaurasmyth. I hope you watch it. As in 'view the programme' not 'be careful'.
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If you’re in Canada or the U.S.A, Unruly, my book about England's kings and queens, will be available from the 3rd October. That's 5 days later than in the U.K. for reasons to do with international capitalism. Still, you can pre-order a copy THIS INSTANT: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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Henry VIII. You've probably all heard of him. He wasn't the best of men. Can you hear the judgement dripping off my voice here? You'll be able to hear all of my thoughts on the most famous of kings in the audiobook of Unruly: shor.by/UNRULY
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If you’re lucky enough to be browsing in an independent bookshop this weekend, you may see that they have a special edition of my new book Unruly. It’s a regal navy blue. It’s also got an exclusive bonus chapter about Emma of Normandy, the only woman to be queen of England twice.
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Unruly, the history book I've written, is published today! So you can get it in shops! Or by clicking on the link below! To celebrate that fact, here is a video reflecting on one of the key lessons I've taken from the past: sometimes things just happen. shor.by/UNRULY
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On Friday I'll be at Shepherd's Bush Empire talking to the wonderful and hilarious Ben Elton about beheadings, syphilis and silly hats. If we get a minute we might even mention my new book Unruly. Tickets, which include a signed copy, are available here: ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3E005EEB…
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I’m in Newcastle tomorrow discussing my new book Unruly with the brilliant @alandaviescomic. Are you in or near Newcastle? Do you have plans for Tuesday? If the answers are yes and no respectively, why not come? Tickets here (£15 or £39 inc. signed book): academymusicgroup.com/o2cityhallnewc…
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Excitingly, this book I keep going on about is also being published in the U.S. and Canada! Explore the history of England’s Kings and Queens in #Unruly, available for pre-order now: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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History is riddled with complex moral questions and here I wrestle with one of the most controversial: did Vikings really have horns on their helmets? And, if not, WHY NOT?! #Unruly is out next Thursday and you can order it HALF PRICE from @Waterstones:  shor.by/UNRULY
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I had great fun discussing Edward V with @monstroso, though Edward V didn't have much fun himself. You can listen to the podcast here - shows.acast.com/willy-willy-ha… - and buy my book about lots of other kings and queens here - shor.by/UNRULY.
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I, David Mitchell, indulge in some mansplaining about the sexism of the past. You can read me do that some more in my book or, if you're statistically more likely to commit violent crime, my audiobook #Unruly: shor.by/UNRULY
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I'm very pleased to say that the brilliant and hilarious @alandaviescomic is going to be interviewing me about my new book, Unruly, in Newcastle later this month. Tickets, which include a signed copy of the book, are available here: academymusicgroup.com/o2cityhallnewc…
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If you're thinking of buying Unruly, my history of England’s Kings and Queens, then at @Waterstones you can do so at HALF price. That means you only need to want to HALF as much. You can order it here:  shor.by/UNRULY
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Kings Edward, Athelstan, Edmund, Eadred, Eadwig, Edgar and another Edward, and Queen Aethelflaed... Hear me do my best to pronounce all these names and then tell you a bit about them in the audiobook of #Unruly: shor.by/UNRULY
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Have you ever wondered why Mary I is called Bloody Mary? I have an answer. If you like it, you might enjoy my book #Unruly which is out on 28th September: shor.by/UNRULY
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I'm thrilled to announce that my London book event at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 29th September is going to be hosted by my very good friend, who is also a comic genius, Ben Elton. Tickets available here:
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I'm doing an event at #CheltLitFest on 7th October, talking about my new book, Unruly. Tickets (which include a signed copy of the book) go on sale on Wednesday 6th September. I hope you can come. Here's the full programme: protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/aTzCCVNMws2O…
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Here's a short video about William the Conqueror, the man who, if you believe the numbering system, was England's first proper monarch. There's more about him in my new book #Unruly: shor.by/UNRULY
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If you like leaving the house (which has its pluses and minuses) and you like history (that’s more like it), there are tickets available to see me talking about UNRULY: A History of England’s Kings and Queens here: shor.by/UNRULY
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Sutton Hoo, Ralph Fiennes and the Romans. That's what this video is about. If you enjoy it, you might also like my book, #Unruly, which you can pre-order now: shor.by/UNRULY
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This is a message for people in the USA and Canada about MY BOOK #Unruly. The message is that it's going to be published where you live too! Properly! With the price in dollars and everything! It comes out on October 3rd and is available for pre-order now: linktr.ee/UNRULY_USCanada
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