In 2017, Peter Capaldi wrote a comforting letter to a 9-year-old Doctor Who fan who was dreading to see his favourite Time Lord leave the show. At the 10th anniversary Letters Live show, Jodie Whittaker read the letter.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH joined in a very special International Women’s Day Letters Live themed show, in aid of @WomensPrize.
(Royal Albert Hall | London March 6, 2024)
Olivia Colman reads during a performance of Letters Live at Wilderness Festival 2024 at Cornbury Park on August 04, 2024 in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. (Photos by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
I can tell you how sorry I am, that it ate me up. That even as we sat in bed with the nightlight on, reading together about coral reefs and finding Dory, I knew there was not much time left for those bright and beautiful places.
I can tell you that I tried, that even though it felt hopeless, still if there was any chance left then I wasn’t going to quit. I can tell you that this is why we always took the train, why I pestered politicians, why we changed what we ate, why I got myself arrested that time.
But what I really want you to know: that the hardest thing was living through a time when we could have turned this around, but that most people just carried on as if it didn’t matter. x
In 2021, Stuart Capstick, deputy director at the Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations in Cardiff, wrote a letter of apology to his children. Benedict Cumberbatch read it at Letters Live (2024)
"In July of 1905, after attending a performance of Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House, renowned playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw wrote the following complain letter to The Times.
Benedict Cumberbatch read it during the 10th anniversary of the Letters Live Show at the Royal Albert Hall" | November 16, 2023.