Past event

WOW, 2020

Date:
8 March 2020

Part of WOW – Women of the World at London’s Southbank Centre, Letters Live made its debut on International Women’s Day 2020 in the tenth anniversary year of the festival.

Programme

Sunday, 8th March 2020
Sally Philips

 

Gentlemen, I just don’t belong here

Ursula Le Guin to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

 

An instrument of joy

Margaret Mead to her sister

 

 

Adwoa Aboah

 

We are the gift

Melissa Harris Perry to Richard Mourdock

 

Don’t let anyone define who you are

Angelique Kidjo to girls of the world

 

 

Rose McGowan

 

Dear Hollywood

Rose McGowan to Hollywood

 

 

Ncuti Gatwa

 

Dear Principal
Stephen Callaghan to Principal

 

DO NOT be so bloody vulnerable
Noel Coward to Marlene Dietrich

 

 

Daisy Ridley

 

Ought women not to be abolished altogether?
Clementine Churchill to The Times

 

You did not just attack me that night

Ione Wells to her assaulter

 

 

Meera Syal

 

Live a life worth living
Julie Yip Williams to her daughters

 

Mick Jagger and I walked into Studio 54
Bianca Jagger to Financial Times
 
 

Amanda Abbington

 

Have a Happy Period
Wendi Aarons to James Thatcher

 

 

Louise Brealey

 

I’m amputating you
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera

 

 

Olivia Colman

 

Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to an admirer

 

 

Jordan Stephens

 

Abortion is a terrifying thing
Italo Calvino to Claudio Magris

 

 

Music

 

Amyra

Burning in Birmingham

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