Past event

Freemasons’ Hall, October 2016

Date:
4-8 October 2016

Letters Live returned to London’s iconic Freemasons’ Hall, Oct 4th to 8th. Performers included: Gillian Anderson, Matt Berry, Sanjeev Bhaskar, John Bishop, Louise Brealey, Edith Bowman, Jarvis Cocker, Lily Cole, Julian Clary, Jamie Cullum, Sophie Dahl, Simon Day, Omid Djalili, Mariella Frostrup, Charlie Heaton, Keaton Henson, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Miriam Margolyes, Michael Palin, Nicholas Parsons, Robert Rinder, Colin Salmon and Juliet Stevenson

 

Inspired by Shaun Usher’s international best-selling Letters of Note series and Simon Garfield’s To The LetterLetters Live has moved audiences to both laughter and tears through a series of heartfelt, humorous and at times, heartbreaking letters, delivered by the most talented and acclaimed talent from the worlds of arts and culture.

 

The charities supported at this event were Ministry of Stories, First Story and Help Refugees.

Programme

 

Charlie Heaton

 
Who is this kid?

Tom Hanks to George Roy Hill

 
Farewell my dear brother

Pinchas Einsner to Mordechai Eisner

 

 

Edith Bowman

 
Your Research department

John Peel to Matthew Bannister

 
Thank you & I hope you choke

Beatles Fan to Nike

 

 

Jude Law

 
You’re nothing but a pimp.

Frank Sinatra to Mike Ryoko

 
Part of this world, part of another

Gene Wilder to Mel Stuart

 
Live like a mighty river

Ted Hughes to His Son

 

 

Julian Clary

 
Parsons was FURIOUS

Kenneth Williams to Frances Meredith

 
Sleep well my love

Brian Keith to Dave

 

 

Julian Clary and Noma Dumezweni

 
Dear Friend

Hermione Gringold to A Friend

 

 

Julian Clary and Omid Djalili

 
You Babylonian Scullion

Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks

 

 

Mariella Frostrup

 
They don’t care about you

Sinead O’Connor to Miley Cyrus

 

 

Michael Palin

 
I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction’

Mark Forstater to Michael White

 
There’s no hope in war

Kurt Vonnegut to US Government

 
We were brothers way before you were

Groucho Marx to Warner Bros

 

 

Nicholas Parsons

 
We all feel like that now and then

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr to Lord Reginald Pembroke

 
Thinkers and Doers

Buckminster Fuller to Michael

 
Try and be a Dynketisnipsy Girl

Roald Dahl to Elizabeth

 

 

Noma Dumezweni

 
The Empire State Building

Hellen Keller to Dr. John Finley

 
Don’t let anybody raise you

Maya Angelou to Herself

 

 

Omid Djalili

 
Not Raising Hogs

JB Lee Jr to Ed Foreman

 
My Dungeon Shook

James Baldwin to His Nephew

 

 
 

Music

 
 

Keaton Henson

 
No Witnesses

 
 

Kelvin Jones

 
Even Now
Love Letter

 
 

Natalie Clein

 
Adagio

 
 

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