Past event
Date:
12 December 2024
Letters Live returned to London’s Royal Albert Hall for a one-off show in aid of the RNLI on Thursday 12th December 2024. This show was the seventh Letters Live show at this iconic venue and was in association with Montblanc.
This event formed part of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the RNLI this year.
The RNLI has been saving lives at sea since it was founded in 1824 and, in that time, its volunteer lifeboat crews and beach lifeguards have saved more than 146,000 lives – equating to two lives saved every day for 200 years. Funded by voluntary donations, and with lifeboats crewed by trained volunteers, the RNLI is a truly unique rescue organisation. Today, the charity is saving more lives, in more ways, in more places than ever before. It operates 238 lifeboat stations around the UK and Ireland, including four on the River Thames and has seasonal lifeguards on around 240 beaches each summer.
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I am left in quite the quandary
Joe Lycett to Mark Carne
Disregard this warning at your peril
Han Yu to Crocodiles
All my life, I have belonged to no man
Flora Tristan to an admirer
Take a breath now, you’re allowed
Bella Ramsey to Bella Ramsey
I’ll take care of that boy
Robert Peterson to Mr and Mrs Starks
An instrument of joy
Margaret Mead to her sister
Your actions disturb and inspire, and I can’t look away
Ross Beeley to a fellow gym-goer
We connected that night!
Stephanie Pope to Adele
The 12 days of Christmas
Emily to Edward
Coupling is ridiculous, really
Lucia Berlin to Kenwood Elmslie
I never imagined you would become a warrior
Xiao Hong to her brother
I would rather die
Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard
I know Mother, I know
Anne Sexton to Linda Sexton
One rule for England captains…
Nick Jones to Viz
That is not the way to play football
David Hickey to the Independent
Help me catch our world
Jenny to Earth
Now her soul is free
Ram Dass to Steve and Anita Isser
I owe you everything
Martin Stephens to the RNLI
Mrs. Slob of 1961
Beatrice Maitland to the editor of Chatelaine magazine
The worst specimen
D. Blakey to Irish Lights
The beauty of things
Robinson Jeffers to Mary James
See you soon, my magnificent one
Maria Casares and Albert Camus
P.S.: This is my favourite memo ever
Matt Stone to the MPAA
Christmas with all its ancient horrors
Raymond Chandler to Jamie Hamilton
Any better ideas?
Rodney Smith to the Guardian
Have some carrots you cunt
Kenneth Williams to Eric Peel
Damn the mail!
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer
WE ARE BARELY HANGING ON
Julie Scagell to her son’s recorder
For your first Christmas
Walter Page to his grandson
What should I do?
Frustrated to Abby
I embrace you with all my heart
Albert Camus to Louis Germain
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088
Kurt Vonnegut to the people of 2088
Jessie Ware
Say You Love Me
Anoushka Shankar
Stolen Moments
Hauschka