Past event
Date:
28-29 May 2016
Letters Live travelled to Hay for a third year after very popular visits in 2014 and 2015 at which Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey and Jude Law headlined, and following a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at the Freemasons’ Hall in London in March 2016.
An evening show was first, with a phenomenal line-up that included such talents as Maxine Peake, Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, and Louise Brealey. The next day saw the cast return for a family matinee that left the packed Tata Tent emotionally drained and gripped throughout.
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Five accidents in two Minutes
Fred Allen to State of NY Insurance Dept.
Thank you
Dr. Mark Taubert David Bowie
I refuse to be cheated out of my deathbed scene
Rebecca West to H.G. Wells
Look for me in the sunsets
Emmie to Sumner
A frivolous note
Roald Dahl to His Mother
I would like to give you your own history
Juan Gelman to His Grandchildren
You Babylonian scullion
Mehmed IV to Zaporozhian Cossacks
I do not believe in war
Joan Baez to the Internal Revenue Service
Thinking of you to the end
Rose Schlösinger to Marianne Schlösinger
Dear Friend
Hermione Gingold to A Friend
Fortunately, I had my new radio
Mary Grant to A. Walker
Dear Internet
Tina Fey to Internet Commenters
Your eager mother
Jessie Bernard to Unborn Daughter
Prayers for Rain
Winston Churchill to The Times
The most frightful nightmare
Paul Nash to His Wife
Oh Christ the cook is dead
Spike Milligan to Stephen
Who is this kid?
Tom Hanks to George Roy Hill
The mingled souls of wheat and corn
R.G. Ingersoll to Rev Buckley
Even Now
He is not a forgiving cat
John Cheever to Josie Herbst
Part of this world, part of another
Gene Wilder to Mel Stuart
The coyote
William James to Alexander James
The most extraordinary scene
Captain Reginald John Armes to His Wife
All the ladies like whiskers
Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln
Make your soul grow
Kurt Vonnegut to Xavier High School
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore
An absurd accident
Dora Carrington to Gerald Brenan
On not raising hogs
J.B Lee Jr to Ed Foreman
Our differences unite us
Barack Obama and Sophia Bailey-Klugh
It is only adults who ever feel threatened
Ursula Nordstrom to a School Librarian
I am in receipt of your Final Demand
Naval Officer to A creditor
Seat 29E
A Customer to Continental Airlines
Your words built a castle
Chrissy Hart to JK Rowling
Books are people
EB White to Children of Troy letter
This is quite true
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Waugh
BE your own self. Love what YOU love.
Ray Bradbury to William Stanhope
Try and be a Dinketysnipsy girl
Roald Dahl to Elizabeth
Call You Home
Sit right down and write myself a letter
