This winter, we're in luck, Snow is coming! While the weather may be more of a wet winter than a white winter, 'the history guy' himself will talk about Weymouth's past in a show tailored to the town. Dan Snow tells Joanna Davis more.

I GET the sense that Dan is a man in a hurry when he picks up the phone before the first ring is over and launches into a passionate description of his love of history before I can get the lid off my pen.

There are children grizzling in the background, but I assume, correctly, that Dan's not here to do small talk about the weather and his family.

Dan Snow, TV presenter, son of veteran broadcaster Peter Snow and cousin of Channel 4 newscaster Jon Snow, is spreading himself very thinly in his upcoming tour, covering 42 venues in the second leg of his An Evening with the History Guy tour in the space of just over two months.

And not only that, he is also taking part in promotional events for his recently published book On This Day In History.

Luckily for Weymouth, we get to see him early on the tour on January 25, the day after his show at the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne.

But for anyone worried about Dan getting his Dorset towns beginning with W mixed up, it's instantly clear that Dan is a real grafter and has an incredible brain for retaining information.

He tells me: "The tour has been great fun, I've got into the groove with it now."

I ask Dan, who has a regular history slot on The One Show, whether he's going to change up the format based upon the reception of the first leg of the tour.

Dan said: "I'll be putting more about the book into the tour now. I think people really like the audience interaction, I get to go on little adventures to do my research, if I'm going to go somewhere I put a little shout out on social media and if I'm lucky someone historical comes forward and points me in the right direction and if I'm lucky I can go for a little trip and report back."

Dan, the great-great-grandson of the inter-war prime minister Earl Lloyd George, lives in the New Forest with his wife Edwina, a member of one of the wealthiest families in Britain, and their three children, Zia, Wolf and Orla.

But while it sounds like a life most of us can only dream of with a family sailing boat kept on the south coast and regular trips over to the Isle of Wight for breakfast, Dan probably puts most of us who do the nine to five to shame with the hours he puts in.

He said: "I like to keep busy otherwise I'm not doing anything during the day. I find that all the work for the shows comes together."

An Evening With the History Guy promises anecdotes of memorable experiences from Dan's career as an historian and broadcaster. Dan will also research and include historical facts and stories relating to the specific town of each theatre on the tour and will be aided by the use of digital screens.

He said: "I'm lucky because my job has been making amazing films about history explaining things like the history of North and South Korea and about the battlefields of the Congo. I've been lucky to be able to go to an interesting range of places and make interesting films like about the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, about the Second World War and D-Day veterans.

"I've found so far that the audience is a mixture. There's quite a lot of young kids who are into their history if they're doing it at school. A lot of them like things like Horrible Histories and there's obviously always quite a lot of older people who come along."

So what can we expect to hear about in the Weymouth show? I ask.

Dan tells me: "I was in Dorset recently for a day out and went to Portland Bill and went down some quarries where they mined the stone that pretty much built London

"There's so much history in the area, I love Maiden Castle in Dorchester as well."

This neck of the woods is an area Dan knows well, living just over the border in Hampshire.

He said: "I love coming to this area and I do it a lot because I live so close.

"I get on my boat and come down to Dorset.

"I love spending time by the water and at the beach huts in Mudeford.

"I've been lucky enough to do so much in this area. I've dived off a Second World War harbour and ridden on a tank."

We move on to talk about Dan's recent presenting gig in Dorset, in which he presented the rather stilted Beach Live from Charmouth beach on BBC4 this summer, which certainly moved along a lot slower than this interview.

Dan said: "I really enjoyed looking at the Jurassic Coast. In Lyme Regis you've got the tale of Mary Anning who was a young girl from a poor background who became one of the world's best known fossil hunters. There's also all the tales of smuggling off the Dorset coast."

It has been quite the summer for Dan. He and his wife attended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding in May.

But sadly, there is little insight to the Windsors' inner circle for me.

Dan says: "I like watching history happen, I am lucky to be able to see it happening and having the privilege to watch events for the centenary of the end of the First World War. As a historian it gives you a real insight into things."

And with that I leave Dan to keep spinning his many plates, including his own history TV channel and regular podcast Dan Snow's History Hit.

*Dan Snow - An Evening with the History Guy, Weymouth Pavilion, Friday, January 25, 7.30pm and Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne, Thursday, January 24. Call the box office for tickets.