Noma dumezweni biography of albert einstein
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Title:
Letters of note [audio book CD] : correspondence deserving of a wider audience / compiled by Shaun Usher ; read by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Noma Dumezweni, Stephen Fry, as well as the editor himself.
Summary:
From Virginia Woolf's heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower, from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter. Including letters from Zelda Fitzgerald, Iggy Pop, Fidel Castro, Leonardo da Vinci, Bill Hicks, Anais Nin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Amelia Earhart, Charles Darwin, Roald Dahl, Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Dorothy Parker, John F. Kennedy, Groucho Marx, Charles Dickens, Katharine Hepburn, Kurt Vonnegut, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Emily Dickinson and many more.
Performer/Reader:
Read by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Noma Dumezweni, Stephen Fry and Shaun Usher.
Publication Date:
2022
2021
Added Author:
Cumming, Alan, 1965-
Usher, Shaun, 1978-
Anderson
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Freemasons’ Hall, October 2016
Charlie Heaton
Who is this kid?
Tom Hanks to George Roy Hill
Farewell my dear brother
Pinchas Einsner to Mordechai Eisner
Edith Bowman
Your Research department
John Peel to Matthew Bannister
Thank you & I hope you choke
Beatles Fan to Nike
Jude Law
You’re nothing but a pimp.
Frank Sinatra to Mike Ryoko
Part of this world, part of another
Gene Wilder to Mel Stuart
Live like a mighty river
Ted Hughes to His Son
Julian Clary
Parsons was FURIOUS
Kenneth Williams to Frances Meredith
Sleep well my love
Brian Keith to Dave
Julian Clary and Noma Dumezweni
Dear Friend
Hermione Gringold to A Friend
Julian Clary and Omid Djalili
You Babylonian Scullion
Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Mariella Frostrup
They don’t care about you
Sinead O’Connor to Miley Cyrus
Michael Palin
I would like to retain ‘fart in your general direction’
Mark Forstater to Michael White
There’s no hope in war
Kurt Vonnegut to US Government
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