Past event
Date:
5-6 August 2017
Letters Live travelled to Oxfordshire in 2017 to entertain the crowds at the picturesque Wilderness Festival for the first time. During the first weekend of August, as headliners of the festival’s Talks and Debates programme, Letters Live descended upon the stunning Atrium stage to seduce the audience with, as ever, a cast of readers and letters certain to surprise and delight.
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Fortunately, I had my new radio
Mary Grant to A. Walker
Dear Friend
Hermione Gingold to A Friend
I pity you
Roger Taylor to Rolling Stone Magazine
The Cat Ranch
Jack Lemmon to Walter Matthau
Seat 29E
A Customer to Continental Airlines
Thanks a heap Susan
George Harrison to Susan Houghton
I invented punk
Lester Bangs to East Village Eye
The canvas has an idiotic stare
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction
Mark Foraster to Michael White
Not raising hogs
J.B. Lee, Jr. to Ed Foreman
P.S. This is my favorite memo ever
Matt Stone to the MPAA
If only
Percy Grainger to Karen Holten
I am so close behind you
Leonard Cohen to Marianne Ihlen
Your road manager needs a POKE
Anonymous child to Rolling Stones
Keep Dreaming
Debbie Harry to her younger self
We press you close and kiss you with all our strength
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to thir sons
Our gods are assholes
Iggy Pop to Joshua Berger
Life itsef is life
DH Lawrence to Katharine Mansfield
Dogs vs. Cats
Letters to the Guardian
There’s no hope in war
Kurt Vonnegut to the Draft Board
We all feel like that now and then
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke
Your type is a dime a dozen
Hunter S. Thompson to Anthony Burgess
The mingled souls of wheat and corn
R.G. Ingersoll and Rev. Dr. J.M. Buckley
Dear One
Rachel Carson to Dorothy Freeman
The most beautiful work of all
Patti Smith to Robert Mapplethorpe
To my ever-loving wife
Don to His Wife
I have had my eye on you
Simon Fallowfield to Mary Foster
The grand bi-polar old Duke of York
Mark Piggott to Private Eye Magazine
This would make him mine
John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe
Torturing the Saxophone
Robert Crumb to Mats Gustafson
Ye have made me such a pisser
Lord Edmund Howard to Lady Lisle
Your miserable friend
Lewis Carroll to Annie Rogers
I wanted to be a nun or a movie star
Madonna to Stephen Lewick
Straighten up and fly right, Banky!
Billie Holliday to Tallulah Bankhead