| Main Performers | Thom Yorke - synth, vocal, acoustic guitar,
Tom Odell - vocal, piano,
Laura Mvula - vocal, piano
Brian Cox,
Daisy Ridley,
Sanjeev Bhaskar,
Cynthia Erivo,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Gillian Anderson,
Armistead Maupin,
Meera Syal,
Matt Lucas,
Toby Jones,
Louise Brealey,
Emma Corrin,
Keegan Michael Key,
Ione Wells - speakers |
| Set List | 'Safe in the Knowledge', The Smile (Thom York)
Letters:
'You ignorant freak', Hunter S. Thompson to Dave Allen (Brian Cox)
'I am an ocean flyer', Beryl Markham to the Press (Daisy Ridley)
'Honestly, why arent you writing to me?', Vladimir Nabakov to Vera Nabokov (Sanjeev Bhaskar)
'Never has any woman been so well and truly loved as I', Valentine Ackland to Sylvia Townsend Warner (Cynthia Erivo, Luise Brearley),
'How can you live like this?', Oliver Beale to Richard Branson (Benedict Cumberbatch),
'Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends', Gillian Anderson to herself (Gillian Anderson),
'Letter to Mama', Michael Toliver His Mother (Armistead Maupin),
'I wonder which is the sickest', George Sanders to Brian Aherne (Matt Lucas)
'This evening the letter came to grief', Daniil Kharms to Lipavskys (Toby Jones)
'May your work be condemned to the pastrycooks shop', Jane Austen to her brothers (Emma Corrin),
'Yours in science', Harvey Rowe to Scott Williams (Keegan Michael Key),
'You did not just attack me that night', Ione Wells to her assaulter (Ione Wells)
'Strange Fruit', Billie Holiday (Laura Mvula)
INTERVAL
'Heal' (Tom Odell)
'I would like to give you your own history', Juan Gelman to his grandchild (Brian Cox),
'Love, Nina', Nina Stibbe to Victoria Stibbe (Daisy Ridley),
'Not everything can be explained logically', Oscar Brittle to The Irrigator (Sanjeev Bhaskar),
'Brother, you got a fan now!', Nina Simone to Langston Hughes (Cynthia Erivo),
'Dear Mother', Eve Ensler to Mother Earth (Louise Brealey),
'Hello its me', Cyrus Thatcher to his family (Benedict Cumberbatch),
'She was more than a saint', Martha Gellhorn to Adlai Stevenson (Gillian Anderson),
'Dont shake my tree', Shirley Jackson to a disgruntled reader (Meera Syal),
'Mothers name: Homeira', Homeira Qaderi to her son (Meera Syal),
'You Babylonian scullion', Mehmed IV to Zaporozhian Cossacks (Meera Syal, Matt Lucas),
'Portentous, derisive, dull, dismal, damnable', Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins (Toby Jones),
'Does everyone really have something good in them?', Margaret Veglahn to Harper Lee (Emma Corrin),
'The life and the work are equally important', Andre Gregory to Richard Avedon (Keegan Michael Key)
'Its a virus', Tom Waits to The Nation (Thom Yorke)
'Love and Hate in a Different Time' (The Gabriels) |
| Related Archival Material | Digital Photographs,
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/65 ) |