Past event

Hay Festival, 2018

Date:
2-3 June 2018

The fifth appearance of Letters Live at the wonderful Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales this year delivered another pair of delightful shows. The line-up remained closely guarded, apart from the exciting leak that Benedict Cumberbatch would be in attendance. Joining Benedict for these shows were Clarke Peters, Louise Brealey, Ferdinand Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Tony Robinson, Jessica Raine, Toby Jones, Ophelia Lovibond, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Jordan Stephens and Yrsa Daley-Ward.

Programme

 

Benedict Cumberbatch

 
What gloomy tidings about the CRABS

Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma

 
The canvas has an idiotic stare

Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh

 

 

Clarke Peters

 
Love and garlic

Groucho Marx to Chico Marx

 
Long Live Africa!

Patrice Lumumba to Pauline Opango

 

 

Jordan Stephens

 
I’m still here, trying to make it

Jimi Hendrix to His Dad

 
You know who you are

Australian man to His neighbour

 

 

Louise Brealey

 
Dear Sir

Sarah-Louise Jordan to An Admirer

 
This is not a letter

Katherine Mansfield to Leslie Beauchamp

 

 

Prasanna Puwanarajah

 
Don’t come

Abdul Rahman to Rajwalk Khan

 

 

Rose McGowan

 
Have a Happy Period

Wendi Aarons to James Thatcher

 
I can’t look you in the voice

Dorothy Parker to Pascal Covici

 

 

Toby Jones

 
A lousy proposition

Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert

 

 

Toby Jones and Jessica Raine

 
Are you supposed to be normal?

Harold Pinter to A Theatregoer

 

 

Tony Robinson

 
He is foul in the inward man

Tobias Gowell to A Watchmaker

 
A lousy proposition

Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert

 

 

Yrsa Daley Ward

 
Don’t let anyone define who you are.

Angelique Kidjo to Girls of the World