LETTERS LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE: FREEMASONS' HALL. Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston + Jude Law
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to this special archive film of some of our favourite performances of incredible letters, taken from the beautiful Freemasons' Hall, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Jude Law, Olivia Colman, Tom Hiddleston, Carey Mulligan, Clarke Peters and more.
This video is available for free but, if you can, please head over to our friends Choose Love to check them out and make a donation. choose.love/
Across 2015 and 2016, Letters Live produced 15 shows at the Freemasons' Hall, London. With no two shows being the same. Here is just a small selection of some of our favourite readings from those shows.
Through this run of shows and this video we have chosen to support Choose Love (previously known as Help Refugees) whose vital work provides aid to people fleeing war, persecution and climate change. Choose Love goes where the need is greatest, filling the gaps and acting where others won’t. Sometimes that means Search & Rescue boats. Sometimes it means providing food or safe, secure long-term housing.
Since 2015, they’ve supported over 150 incredible projects in 15 countries and reached over one million people. In February 2016, Choose Love and The Good Chance Theatre worked with Letters Live to create a very special event in the "Jungle" refugee camp on the outskirts of Calais.
We were honoured to be a part of this extraordinary event and it served to strengthen our conviction that as humans sharing space on the same planet, we have a duty to help in this ever-evolving humanitarian crisis.
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Voiceover - Shaun Dooley. - บันเทิง
My mother communicated by letter all her life with friends with whom she had gone to school in Saskatchewan in the early 1920’s. Following the death of my father in 1964, Mom travelled by train to British Columbia. Along the way she visited some of those friends. It has always been amazing to me that she was greeted so warmly and treated so kindly by schoolmates from so long ago. She was welcomed into their homes, celebrated at gatherings of friends and cousins, dined and entertained in homes and public venues and made to feel that both she and her correspondence had mattered. I have to admire her conviction which, in the end, paid off so heartwarmingly.
Her guilty look at her southern accent. 💐😄
I’m here for Tom Hiddleston. Anyone else?
For those of us who could never get to this in the flesh, l thank you.
Loved Jude Law's New York accent when he was reading his letter! So entertaining!
The Jude Law letter is Allen’s rip off a letter from a British bricking read out an uk institute of engineers meeting in the 1970s. ABC local radio program Sydney hosted by Margaret Throsby. Search.
@@ericvlakameyev2265 Fred Allen died in 1956. "Search"
Sorry no matter how good the accent and the delivery, everyone should listen to the original Hoffmann, no comparison
Came here for Benedict, fell in love with Olivia Coleman 😂
Olivia Coleman is amazing. Like AMAZING.
I like her so much❤
Refugees, no matter from where only want to live. This letter speaks across time and space.
I'm here for Benedict💗
Who isn't?
8:26 man, That „Please, come back!“ is really something I relate to, owning free-reigning cats is not for the faint-heartedy
Burst of laughter when Jude Law read the bricks... i mean the letter 🤣
Olivia Colman is so adorable.
And Benedict is as always Love.
Olivia coleman a bloody genius
Love Maya Angelou's letter reading.
What a pin-drop listening experience!
Listening to this with earbuds in, and in complete, rapt, silence, along with the audience, Peter Capaldi is showing why he is regarded so highly as a actor with this wonderful, touching and compelling performance, of one of The most memorable, of the moment, letters in this compilation series of Charity readings! 😢
Benedict is one of the greatest humans that i know !
O my, the letter read by Miriam Margolyes, and read so well
Benedict is awesome LOL but I love Letters Live overall immensely! I'm here for any and all of the amazing people who come and bring life to these incredible letters. Thank you for doing this!
I really enjoy a good letter. Só thank vou all
Q
Jourdon Anderson's letter (read by Clarke Peters) was so cleverly written. Pure wit. A delight to listen to.
This is the most wonderful experience. As an old Southern er, letter reading and letter writing was as deeply engrained in my experience as mayonnaise, going barefoot, and wearing white gloves to dances. Thank you for so vividly, poignantly, and beautifully bringing that all back to me.
Oh olivia!! She's so adorable 🥰
I'm here for Tom Hiddleston ❤️
Yes, same
For those of you who are watching this for Tom Hiddleston's appearance, he comes in at 13:26.
For those of you who are waiting for Benedict Cumberbatch's appearance, he comes in at 32:33.
Please do stay for the rest, all of these performances were absolutely beautiful! I loved that we got to see so many different individuals doing what they do best. Being themselves and having a good read. Enjoy.
Thank you so much I needed this!!
Thank you!!
Thanks
Hope people who came for them watched it all. I found letters live by chance a few months ago and absolutely love it. It keeps showing up on my timeline. Some letters I've heard serval times and they're brilliant every time
Oh God, Olivia.... I love it!!!
9:50 Love Maya Angelou's letter to her younger self.
2:43 Olivia Colman
8:26 Caroline Flack
9:50 Noma Dumezweni
11:54 Louse Brealey and Tom Hiddleston
19:36 Carey Mulligan
20:53 Clarke Peters
32:37 Benedict Cumberbatch
(my faves)
THANK YOU!!
Thanks so
Yes thank you
I have anger problems and anxiety all in one. Just 4 days ago I came across one of the clips and I fell in love. I listen to each reading with my eyes closed as a movie plays in my mind. I feel calm and some are hilarious. The reading of 'Hussain to People of Europe' brought me to tears. Thank you Live Letters, brilliant..just brilliant ❤️
Sanji, loved your reading of John Cheever’s letter about Delmore! Just perfect1
I'm here for Benedict!!!!!!💖💖
This was a legendary performance by Gerard Hoffnung
Tom, Benedict and Olivia were awesome💕
Clarke Peters, so well delivered, so tongue in cheek! Love it!
20:17 Letter from freeman to his former "master"....brilliant.
i'm here to see Benedict!!!🙌💖
The EMOTION in the reading of the letter at 30:19 can not help but touch the coldest heart.
Such eloquence on behalf of all refugees.
20:15 Best letter I’ve listened to in a long long time
Love the letter to Elvis from the girls in Montana. That being said I'm from Montana and we're way up North and really don't have a Southern accent. I do thank you for the wonderful letters and the wonderful peoples reading them. Keep up the good work...from a fan in Montana..
Great voice spoiled by the piano. Favourite letter, the reply of the former slave. Favourite reader, Benedict ,of course.
1:18 "This is not a letter, but my arms around you for a brief moment." - Katherine Mansfield
Loved the performances by Olivia Coleman, Jude Law, Carey Mulligan, Clarke Peters and Benjamin Clementine.
As an English Learner, watching the letter lives helps me learn
I'm here for Benedict!!!😍😍
Benedict Cumberbatch I love you!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Benedict!!!!!!
Jude Law’s letter is a letter version of an Irish Song, called Murphy and the Bricks!
The Corries did a very funny version of this 🤣🤣
Perfect Benedict!👑
Here for Benedicttttttttt
Tom for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was really enjoyable. A fantastic collection of letters bringing laughter and tears. Looking forward to being able to see a performance in person again soon. Thank you!
I'm here to watch Jude Law, Tom Hiddleston, and Benedict Cumberbatch ❤️❤️
Hello good evening and lovely greetings from Austria. I hope you all are in best health conditions. I miss this show in real so much. Hopefully we soon can see it in London again. 🥰
So groovy how the readers add something of their own to each letter ❤ readers + the words = something entirely new
thank you so much for this, I have loved the little bits of Letters Live I have been able to see on the internet, though I will probably never make it to a live event. This is a very special thing you all do. What a treat to hear so many of the letters all in one program.
The letter about the barrel of bricks sounds like what started as a recitation in the 1920’s and ultimately became the song called The Sick Note (which is even funnier).
I’v just found these videos and i’m Sad to have missed so much however, i’m now pleased that I can enjoy so much.
Just beautiful and brilliant! Almost 5 years and yet each performance feels fresh as new, every single time!! Thank you Letters Live for this fantastic compilation!!!
All these people have amazing talents!
Oh look they are all coming out of the woodwork now.
excited! Good luck to all the wonderful actors
These were such amazing performances! The humor, the love and the depth of passion! Each of them a testament of lives.
30:05 is the most eloquent written word in the world
I'm here for Benedict!!💗💗💗
An excellent show. It’s good to be reminded of the exceptional and talented performances.
GOD! I miss Tom so much :)
I love writing letters and came across this by chance.Thankyou so much it was simply uplifting.May letters continue to flow freely.xxx
Just came home from a long work day. Elisabeth Taylors letter to her cat came up. It made me tell my cats how much I love them 😻😻. Did she ever find her cat?
Love the barrel so much.
Thank you for another wonderful presentation, look forward to seeing you again in person someday.
God bless all of you for all you do!💖💖💖
Outstanding. Words are not enough, so much passion and hope. Thank you.
Tom 💙
Jordan Andersons letter read by Clark Peters is the best and most intelligent 'why don't you go fuck yourself' letter I've ever heard. Please could you publish this on it's own so that it gets more exposure.
I was thinking the same thing. ❤
This is unbelievable, thank you!
Cannot wait till we get to see these again. Be apart of these again. Be with each other again.
Sincerely
Christina
Wow. Just wow. So much talent and so much raw emotion brought to life ❤️
This is such a treat!!
i'm here for olivia colman 💜
Thank you so much for putting this together. Wonderful to see the performances again.
Especially Kylie 👏
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this special event. Please bring us some Chris and Bessie next time ☺️
I cannot wait to see him💗
The Nick Cave letter is excellent!
This was glorious♡♡ have never been able to make it to a live version of the show but many friends have. Thank you for doing this and supporting the good cause xxxx
¡Oh, Hiddleston! Hermoso y precioso Hiddleston, lo amo
That letter read by Hassan Akkad 😭😭. I wish I could donate, but it's said that I can't do that from my country
Just ordinary people in pursuit of a normal life. 😭😭😭 ❤ for Syria.
Jude Law!!!!!!
Trabalho incrível, fraterno e feito de forma engraçada. Estimula uma das formas mais antigas de comunicação! A carta!!! Parabéns a todos!!!
Tom 💕
I love Olivia Coleman.
The story of Delmore the cat was read by another man I think.. I can’t recall if it was his same accent or not… maybe it was. The guy who read it read it so smoothly it played off the hilarious mess of some of the situation.
I thought Benedict did it too. I was looking for this as well as Woody harrelson who said s….😂 instead of poop
BENEDICT IS SO TALENT
Thank you! :)
Who's here for tom hiddleston?
OLIVIA ❤❤❤
Benedict ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
benedictttttt i love youuuuuuu
Beautimus 🎶🌌💟
This is the song, The Sick Note by Sean Cannon The Dubliners that Jude Law is reading is it not?
Noma ❤❤❤❤
Omg Olivia colman
Jude Law’s bit was probably the basis for the song Sick Note, performed, among others, by The Dubliners
Listen to it, it’s hilarious 😂
I love the image of an elderly Ulster woman telling her friend to fuck off. And then writing to someone to tell them about it.
I wonder if the Fred Allen letter is the basis for The Dubliner's "The sick note" ? AKA "Why Paddy's not at work today"