04:43
Dawn O'Porter reads a letter of complaint to Always maxi pads
02:14
Joely Richardson, Louise Brealey and more read hilarious fan letters to The Beatles
02:20
Himesh Patel reads the most hilarious response to a university rejection letter
03:11
Gillian Anderson reads a letter about Eleanor Roosevelt
05:34
Miriam Margolyes reads Ayn Rand's very stern letter to her niece
02:26
Louise Brealey reads a letter Jessica Mitford wrote to Maya Angelou
08:05
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious letter of apology to a hotel
02:13
Tony Robinson reads a letter about laughing gas
02:51
Sue Perkins reads Clarice Lispector's letter of advice
03:12
Miriam Margolyes reads Queen Victoria's letter to her daughter
03:33
Benedict Cumberbatch reads George Bernard Shaw's hilariously grumpy letters
04:38
Kit Harington reads a love letter written by poet John Berryman
07:43
Miriam Margolyes and Clarke Peters read some STEAMY letters between Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller
05:10
Benedict Cumberbatch performs a speech to be read in the event Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon
04:55
Keegan Michael Key reads a letter on work/ life balance
07:28
Taika Waititi reads a hilarious letter about a speeding ticket
03:42
Gabriels perform Love and Hate in a Different Time
02:37
Oscar Isaac reads a letter from his Star Wars forebear Sir Alec Guinness
08:58
Jarvis Cocker reads a letter written by a David Bowie fan
02:57
Matt Berry reads a truly brutal letter from Robert Crumb
03:11
Miriam Margolyes describes an absurd accident
01:22
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Albert Camus to a beloved teacher
02:42
Ian McKellen reads Kurt Vonnegut's inspirational letter to some students
00:45
New date added at the Royal Albert Hall due to popular demand!
04:01
Sanjeev Bhaskar reads a letter about a reluctantly rehomed cat
02:21
Olivia Colman reads a letter responding to an unsolicited penis photograph
02:24
Sir Ben Kingsley reads a letter written by Gandhi to Hitler
03:43
Adwoa Aboah reads a letter to the girls of the world
04:56
Garbage's Shirley Manson reads a powerful feminist letter to her niece
02:55
Benedict reads Nick Cave's letter about grief
03:47
Laura Mvula sings Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit at the Royal Albert Hall
06:02
Mohamedou Ould Slahi reads his letter to a political prisoner, introduced by Benedict Cumberbatch
05:36
Armistead Maupin reads a letter to his 16-year-old self
00:45
Carey Mulligan reads a letter to the Daily Telegraph, written by a suffragette
05:30
Ione Wells reads her letter to her attacker
02:49
Letters Live returns to the Royal Albert Hall - get your tickets now!
06:10
Keegan-Michael Key reads a letter from the Smithsonian to a man donating 'artefacts' from his garden
02:08
Gillian Anderson reads a letter of advice to her 16-year-old self
01:50
Brian Cox reads Hunter S. Thompson's complaint letter
03:33
Matt Berry Reads a letter from Elvis Presley to US President Richard Nixon
02:06
Matt Lucas reads a retort to a drunken argument about the theatre
05:37
Meera Syal reads Afghan activist Homeira Qaderi's letter to her son
04:48
Benedict Cumberbatch reads 19-year-old Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher's letter
06:50
Thom Yorke performs Free In The Knowledge at the Royal Albert Hall
04:29
The Crown's Emma Corrin reads a 13-year-old Jane Austen's letter
01:52
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a 17-year-old Tom Hanks' letter
02:18
Miriam Margolyes reads a letter from a disgruntled care home resident
05:11
Olivia Colman reads a letter from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
02:53
Asim Chaudhry reads Oscar Brittle's letter to the Sydney Morning Herald
04:14
Stephen Fry reads a letter about a deplorable incident at the BBC Proms
00:45
Join us at the Royal Albert Hall on October 30th!
02:22
Asa Butterfield reads a letter from a Star Wars fan
05:47
Caitlin Moran: “Now I’m Dead, Here’s My Letter Of Advice For You"
01:17
Crystal Clarke reads an unusual letter to the US draft board
03:57
Olivia Colman + Adrian Edmondson read letters between Sultan Mehmed IV and the Zaporozhian Cossacks
02:48
Joanna Lumley reads Vita Sackville-West's letter to Virginia Woolf
06:25
Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut
02:04
Alex Lawther reads James Schuyler's letter to his lover.
10:07
Colin Firth & Taron Edgerton read Rudyard Kipling's letters to his 17-year-old son
02:45
Colin Salmon + Romany Gilmour read letters between Barack Obama and Sophia Bailey-Klugh
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About
LETTERS LIVE is a series of live events celebrating the power of literary correspondence. Inspired by Shaun Usher's Letters of Note, Letters Live is an initiative by publishing company Canongate and Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company SunnyMarch. It has become a phenomenon wherever is has played in the UK.
The idea of LETTERS LIVE is simple: we ask talented, inspiring and high-profile artists from various disciplines to read letters out loud to our audiences. LETTERS LIVE celebrates letter writing and the art of correspondence first and foremost.
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