Past event

Royal Albert Hall, 2019

Date:
3 October 2019

On 3rd October 2019, on the back of another sold out London run, Letters Live brought its star-studded show to the Royal Albert Hall, in its most ambitious night to date.

Programme

Thursday, 3rd October 2019
Stephen Fry

 

A deplorable incident

Robert Ponsonby to Anthony Charlton

 

It will be sunny one day

Stephen Fry to Crystal

 

 

Crystal Clarke

 

Take him

Cassy Murdoch to Draft Board

 

We are the gift

Melissa Harris Perry to Richard Mourdock

 

 

Asim Chaudry

 

I have eaten

Oscar Brittle to the Sydney Morning Herald

 

 

Alan Carr

 

All I know is asthma

Marcel Proust to Jacques Porel

 

Never get a bulldog

Roald Dahl to his mother

 

 

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

As we wait in joyful hope

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Emeka

 

Wisdom is a gift

Toni Morrison to Barack Obama

 

 

Florence Welch

 

Use your time wisely

Rebecca Puig to her daughter

 

The most beautiful work of all

Patti Smith to Robert Mapplethorpe

 

 

Benedict Cumberbatch

 

Stupidity

Name withheld to Superior Insurance

 

The Wilderness

Wallace Stegner to David Pesonen

 

 

Louise Brealey

 

I look upon myself as a prisoner of war

Emmeline Pankhurst to her supporters

 

I’m amputating you

Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera

 

 

Taika Waititi

 

I can only hypothesise

Justin Lee to New Zealand Police

 

Little things

Salvador Dali to Federico Garcia Lorca

 

 

Asim Chaudhry & Stephen Fry

 

I have obtained ownership of the Opera House

R. L. Suisted to Sydney Opera House

 

 

Jude Law

 

No dream can do justice to you

Fergal Keane to Daniel

 

Not the cabbage

Owen James to The Ritz

 

A Letter to the Future

Researchers to The Future

 

 

Olivia Colman

 

We must win in the end

Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary

 

FUCK the Critics

Peggy Ramsay to David Hare

 

 

Benedict Cumberbatch & Louise Brealey

 

Chris and Bessie

Chris & Bessie to Chris & Bessie

 

 

Alan Carr & Olivia Colman

 

Christopher’s Choking!

Darren A. to Dear Dolly

 

 

Rory Stewart

 

A gross failure of responsibility

Martin Hammond to Stanley Johnson

 

 

 

Music

 

Sampha

Plastic 100ºC
(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano

 

Damon Albarn

Lonely Press Play

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