Past event
Date:
2-3 June 2018
The fifth appearance of Letters Live at the wonderful Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales this year delivered another pair of delightful shows. The line-up remained closely guarded, apart from the exciting leak that Benedict Cumberbatch would be in attendance. Joining Benedict for these shows were Clarke Peters, Louise Brealey, Ferdinand Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Tony Robinson, Jessica Raine, Toby Jones, Ophelia Lovibond, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Jordan Stephens and Yrsa Daley-Ward.
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What gloomy tidings about the CRABS
Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma
The canvas has an idiotic stare
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
Love and garlic
Groucho Marx to Chico Marx
Long Live Africa!
Patrice Lumumba to Pauline Opango
I’m still here, trying to make it
Jimi Hendrix to His Dad
You know who you are
Australian man to His neighbour
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to An Admirer
This is not a letter
Katherine Mansfield to Leslie Beauchamp
Don’t come
Abdul Rahman to Rajwalk Khan
Have a Happy Period
Wendi Aarons to James Thatcher
I can’t look you in the voice
Dorothy Parker to Pascal Covici
A lousy proposition
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert
Are you supposed to be normal?
Harold Pinter to A Theatregoer
He is foul in the inward man
Tobias Gowell to A Watchmaker
A lousy proposition
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert
Don’t let anyone define who you are.
Angelique Kidjo to Girls of the World
I have had my eye on you
Simon Fallowfield to Mary Foster
DO
Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
It’s a virus
Tom Waits to The Nation
This is my last visit
William Burroughs to Truman Capote
I loved the boy
William Wordsworth to Robert Southey
Also
Lady Elizabeth Compton to Lord William Compton
It will be sunny one day
Stephen Fry to Crystal
Yours sincerely, Albus Dumbledore
Steve Armes to Albus Dumbledore
I love you
Emma Thompson to Her Younger Self
The story comes from within you
Laura Dern to Her Daughter
What should I do?
Frustrated to Abby
The loss of you lingers
Karin Cook to Joan Cook Carpenter
Every writer has his own voice
V.S. Naipaul to Sonny Mehta at Knopf
Torturing the Saxophone
Robert Crumb to Mats Gustafsson
She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound
Raymond Chandler to Leonard Russell
O, Excellent Air-Bag!
Robert Southey to Tom Southey
I would rather die
Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard