Past event

Hay Festival, 2017

Date:
27-28 May 2017

Armed with a postbag full-to-bursting with riveting correspondence, Letters Live returned to the gorgeous Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales for the fourth time in 2017 following sold out events in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The two shows took place on May 27th and 28th in the Tata Tent, which has in previous years been host to letter readers including Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey, Jude Law, Tom Hollander, Toby Jones, Maxine Peake and Mark Strong.

Programme

 

James Rhodes

 
Highly Honoured Cousin

Johann Sebastian Bach to Johann Elias

 

 

Juliet Stevenson

 
Meeting Picasso

Edith Sitwell to Cecil Beaton

 
With great respect, Marge Simpson

Marge Simpson to Barbara Bush

 

 

Louise Brealey

 
Dear Princess Leia

Carrie Fischer to Princess Leia

 

 

Richard E. Grant

 
Yours for Law and Order

Henry Root to Patrick Moore

 
This would make him mine

John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe

 

 

Sanjeev Bhaskar

 
Mr. Trump causes severe distress

Allen Frances to The New York Times

 

 

Shea Thomas

 
What do I have to be guilty for?

A Muslim to London

 

 

Stephen Fry

 
The Raven is no more

Charles Dickens to Daniel Maclise

 
I daren’t blow off

Kenneth Williams to George Borwick

 

 

Tom Hollander

 
We all wish for peace

George Whitman to Anne Frank

 

 

Tom Hollander and Juliet Stevenson

 
I admire your balls

Hunter S. Thompson to Carrie Neftzger

 

 

Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry and Richard E. Grant

 

 

Tony Robinson

 
Your miserable friend, Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll to Annie Rogers

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

Mark Foraster to Michael White

 
How Beautiful!

Salvador Dali to Federico García Lorca

 

 
 

Music

 
 

Willow Robinson

 
Hope in Our Eyes
 
 

James Rhodes

 
Bach Prelude No. 1 in C Major