Past event

Wilderness Festival, 2019

Date:
3 August 2019

During the first weekend of 2019, Letters Live returned to Oxfordshire to entertain the crowds at the picturesque Wilderness Festival – the third visit in as many years. As headliners of the festival’s Talks and Debates programme, Letters Live took over the gorgeous Atrium stage to wow the audience with a stellar cast of readers.

 

Wilderness is an award-winning festival of music, food, arts, learning, literature and rejuvenation which began in 2011 amongst the lakes, forests and parkland of Oxfordshire’s exquisite Cornbury Estate.

Programme

Adrian Edmondson

 
Cease and desist

The Beano to Jacob Rees Mogg

 
With utter love

Rik Mayall to Billie-Jo and David

 
 

Ferdinand Kingsley

 
Strip down, facing me

Tony Capezza to The Lowell Sun

 
What gloomy tidings about the CRABS

Patrick Leigh Fermor to Enrica Soma

 
 

Jennifer Saunders

 
Cremains

Lydia Davis to Funeral parlour

 
Seat 29E

A customer to Continental Airlines

 
 

Jessie Buckley

 
We formed only one being

Maud Gonne to Yeats

 
 

John Lloyd

 
We all feel like that now and then

Archibald Kerr to Reginald Pembroke

 
 

Lemn Sissay

 
Herbs is his Majesty’s

Lee “Scratch” Perry to Tokyo’s Minister of Justice

 
Yours with real concern

Graham Chapman to The bank

 
 

Louise Brealey

 
No funny business

F. S. Coldrick to Daily Mail

 
Fuck the art world pressures

Lucy Lippard to A young woman artist

 
 

Minnie Driver

 
Dear Internet

Tina Fey to Internet commenters

 
 

Noma Dumezweni

 
I’m amputating you

Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera

 
Even my bones seem to cry for you

Georgia O’Keefe to Alfred Stieglitz

 
 

Olivia Colman

 
Dear Stranger

Remedios Varo to A stranger

 
I am in receipt of your final demand

Naval Officer to A creditor

 
 

Ophelia Lovibond

 
I love her more than anything

Martha Gellhorn to Lucy Moorehead

 
 

Rose McGowan

 
You can’t eradicate violence by using more violence

Yayoi Kusama to Richard Nixon

 
Take him

Cassy Murdoch to Draft Board