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Extraordinary performers read letters about our furry (and not-so-furry) friends, from a letter to a beloved dog, to an ultimatum written to some very unruly crocodiles.
Featuring Asim Chaudhry, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey, Alan Carr and Sue Perkins
Extraordinary performers read letters about our furry (and not-so-furry) friends, from a letter to a beloved dog, to an ultimatum written to some very unruly crocodiles. Featuring Asim Chaudhry, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Louise Brealey, Alan Carr a...
Open this video on Letters LiveFrom a tongue-in-cheek letter of recommendation to a truly disturbing Agony Aunt column submission, if you’re in need of a chuckle, this episode is for you. Featuring Helen McCrory, Louise Brealey, Tony Robinson, Sara Pascoe, Olivia Colman, Michael Palin an...
Open this video on Letters LiveFrom doomed (and rather funny) teenage declarations of affection to passionate letters between wartime lovers, this Letters Live episode gathers some of the most delightful love letters ever penned. Featuring Taron Edgerton, Joanna Lumley, Asa Butterfield, ...
Open this video on Letters LiveIn 2004, Tony Cross decided it was time to apologise to a group who had, he felt, been quietly mischaracterised for too long. At Letters Live on Earth Day 2026, in support of Greenpeace, Simon Pegg joined us to read this funny and poignant letter. © Tony Cr...
Open this video on Letters LiveWhen he wrote this remarkable letter to a friend in 1912, D. H. Lawrence was newly and turbulently in love with Frieda Weekley, a German author who had left her husband and children to be with him. Clearly, the pressure was unbearable for all involved. Two ...
Open this video on Letters LiveAs the Cold War deepened in 1953, celebrated writer and activist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a letter to The Tribune newspaper and made his feelings known. Laurence Fishburne joined to read this letter at Letters Live in New York City in May 2026. Courtesy of The ...
Open this video on Letters LiveOn April 9th, 1959, Malcolm Scott Carpenter was announced by NASA as being one of seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury. At Cape Canaveral in Florida a year later, Carpenter boarded the Aurora 7 spacecraft and circled Earth three times. On the eve of ...
Open this video on Letters LiveMunya Chawawa reads his own letter to God. Munya joined us at a special Earth Day edition of Letters Live at London's Royal Albert Hall in support of Greenpeace in April 2026. © Munya Chawawa, 2026
Open this video on Letters LiveThis is one of our favourite all time letter exchanges for a reason, and we couldn't not share this particular performance with you all. In 1675, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire instructed his army to attack a fortress belonging to the Zaporozhian Cossacks...
Open this video on Letters LiveGerald Durrell and Lee McGeorge first met in 1977, when Durrell — already a celebrated naturalist and writer — was giving a lecture at Duke University, where she was studying animal behaviour. They quickly became close, and within two years were married. In...
Open this video on Letters LiveAnyone who has ever watched a Carry On film will be familiar with Kenneth Williams, a man whose voice and timing made him one of Britain’s great comic icons. In 1964, he wrote to a friend with news of an alarming incident. Alan Carr opened our show at the R...
Open this video on Letters LiveOn January 16th of 1980, Japanese customs officials found 7.7 ounces of cannabis in Paul McCartney's luggage as he entered the country, resulting in a 10-day stay in a Tokyo prison and the cancellation of his tour of Japan with Wings. After being released, ...
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