Tom Holland had a shock diagnosis. His podcast co-host’s response was very British
Tom Holland , 55, and Dominic Sandbrook, 49, are the British historians and brainy friends behind the unlikely global smash-hit podcast The Rest Is History.Chris Floyd/Camera Press/HeadpressWe met in our publisher’s office for a charity quiz in 2005. I’d signed with the publisher earlier and then Dominic got signed. So I felt like the dog in the house and a new dog had been introduced. There was a bit of hackles being up and sniffing each other’s bottoms, as it were.
My brother was doing a podcast on World War II and in 2020, the producers wanted to try another history one. Dominic was the first person I thought of doing it with. Every time I ran into him, our friendship just hummed back into life immediately. And because his field is modern history, that set the parameters of the podcast: I’d do the ancient history and he the modern.
About six months into the pandemic, Tom rang and said he’d been thinking about this podcast. I immediately said yes. I thought it would be like an evening a week – if that. If you’d said then that we’d spend so much time talking to each other, and indeed coming to Australia , it would have been a slightly more terrifying prospect.
In any relationship, there’s always a danger you end up playing your designated part. He’s Mr Enthusiastic: loves people, gregarious, mad ideas. I’m grumpy and gruff. I often think these are not who we really are, but then I look at our WhatsApp conversations, and my contributions are “No, I’d rather die than do that” or “Tell him to go away”.
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