Past event
Date:
7-9 March 2018
On the back of two sold-out nights in July 2017 during which audiences were treated to captivating performances from the likes of Colin Firth, Michael Palin, Noma Dumezweni, Taron Egerton, Rob Brydon, Amanda Abbington, and many others, Letters Live returned in March 2018 to London’s iconic Union Chapel to once again bring letters to life.
Over the course of these three unique evenings, the pulpit was graced by, in no particular order, Amanda Abbington, Louise Brealey, Ophelia Lovibond, Mariella Frostrup, Gina Miller, Helen McCrory, Sophie Hunter, Ayobami Adebayo, Juno Dawson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elizabeth Debicki, Damian Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Culshaw, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ian McShane, Tony Robinson, Noel Fielding, Sinead Cusack, Sue Perkins, Celia Imrie, Rose McGowan, John Bishop, Ade Edmonson, Julian Clary, Matt Berry, Olivia Colman, Niamh McGrady, Sharon Horgan, Jeremy Corbyn, Meera Syal, Jarvis Cocker, and Nick Cave, all of whom helped to breathe life into correspondence from all walks of life and take the audiences on an emotional and unforgettable journey through time.
Our chosen charities for this run of shows were First Story, Women for Women International, and Help Refugees.
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Notes Upon Sounds
Ford Madox Ford to Joseph Conrad
Picture The Scene
Rik Mayall to Bob Geldof
Fart Proudly
Benjamin Franklin to the Royal Academy
A Lousy Proposition
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert
You are a considerable cat’s paw
William Hazlitt to William Gifford
It’s a Virus
Tom Waits to The Nation
Nothing good gets away
John Steinbeck to Thomas Steinbeck
I hope you don’t feel too disappointed
Eric Idle to John Major
Dogs Vs Cats
Various to The Guardian
Dear Abby
Worried in Chicago to Abby
Bill Hicks on Freedom of Speech
Bill Hicks to A Priest
Now her soul is free
Ram Dass to Steve and Anita Isser
Church Weddings Are Vulgar & Stupid
Alexander Woollcott to Alexander Woollcott
It will be sunny one day
Stephen Fry to Crystal
GO TO HELL
Asger Jorn to Harry Guggenheim
I would rather die
Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard
Wisdom is a gift
Toni Morrison to Barack Obama
I Cannot Do Less
Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algern
You may not send us your verses
Angus and Robertson to FC Meyer
My muse is not a horse
Nick Cave to MTV
I refuse to be cheated out of my deathbed scene
Rebeca West to H.G. Wells
Your road manager needs a POKE
Anonymous Child to The Rolling Stones
Know that you are Loved
Dorothy Freeman to Rachel Carson
Also
Lady Elizabeth Compton to Lord William Compton
Thank you, and I hope you choke
Beatles Fan to Nike
I am in receipt of your final demand
Naval Officer to a Creditor
Have A Happy Period
Wendi Aarons to James Thatcher
Love Letter
God Is In The House
I’m sure you will agree
Edith Sitwell to Mrs. Alma
Don’t let anyone define who you are
Angelique Kidjo to Girls of the World
She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound
Raymond Chandler to Leonard Russell
I am not a doctor
George Bernard Shaw to A Fan
He is a lazy, ungrateful, loafing scoundrel
Sarah Jones to the Stamford Advocate
Don’t let anybody raise you
Maya Angelou to Herself
A 3rd world Audrey Hepburn
Cher to Audrey Hepburn
What should I do?
Frustrated to Abbie
The story comes from you
Laura Dern to her daughter
This is not the way to play football
David Hickey to The Independent
My Dear Son
M. Prichard to Various
Be with us in this fight
Georgia O’Keefe to Eleanor Roosevelt
You are not so kind as you used to be
Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill
One’s Drop Scones
Queen Elizabeth II to President Eisenhower
The most astonishing thing
Madame de Sevigne to Philippe de Coulanges
Dear Mum
Hannah Woodhead to Her Mum
God’s Law
A Fan to Dr Laura
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to An Admirer
The appalling horror
Florence Nightingale to William Bowman
Have a happy period
Wendi Irons to James Thatcher
You did not just attack me that night
Ione Wells to Her Assaulter
Also
Lady Elizabeth Compton to Lord William Compton
You did not just attack me that night
Ione Wells to Her Assaulter
Look for me in the sunsets
Emmie to Summer
Keep Dreaming
Debbie Harry to Her younger self
Light of Mine
Still I Rise
Running up that hill
Dancing with the Devil
This was no truss sabotage
Fred Allen to Joe Kelly
Elementary Mistake
Phil Merivale to The Telegraph
Out of all this came happiness
Diana Athill to Bibi Lynch
What is wrong with you?
Jonna Ramey to White Nationalists
For your first Christmas
Walter Page to His Grandson
Stupidity is a crime
Dalton Trumbo to CoL Hospital
You have no television persona
Donald Trump to Richard Branson
Dear Person
Jack Lemmon to Burt Russell
A squeal of pain
Vita Sackville West to Virginia Woolf
You’re just a boy
Agnes Von Kurowsky to Ernest Hemingway
If Only
Percy Grainger to Karen Holten
Mine’s a double
Rick Mayall to Orson Welles
The loss of you lingers
Karin Cook to Her Mum
Dear Hollywood
Rose McGowan to Hollywood
Oh my ass burns like fire!
Mozart to Marianne
Let me have artists for friends
JD Fergusson to His Wife
Don’t Give Up
Jane Fonda to Her Younger Self
You’re doing just fine, soldier
June Wandrey to Her Family
My Darling Pickle
Sue Perkins to Her Dog
One’s Drop Scones
The Queen to President Eisenhower
Dear Lupin
Roger Mortimer to His Son
How did you get invented?
The Archbishop of Canterbury to Lulu
One Colour
Petite Metier
Miner’s Hymn
Whatever you do