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35. Karine Polwart reads her Letter to the Lyceum
11:17||Season 1, Ep. 35Karine's letter takes us back from the Lyceum stage to former plague times, via the birds that visited her Midlothian garden during lockdown.
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34. Lesley Hart reads Philip Howard's Letter to the Lyceum
06:27||Season 1, Ep. 34Lesley Hart reads Philip Howard's letter, on a theatre populated with the ghosts of past productions.
33. Sam Heughan reads his Letter to the Lyceum
05:58||Season 1, Ep. 33Sam's evocative letter takes us back to his first encounters with the Lyceum as an usher, and latterly as a member of the Lyceum Youth Theatre.
32. Lesley Hart reads Tony Cownie's Letter to the Lyceum
03:50||Season 1, Ep. 32Tony Cownie's Letter to the Lyceum evokes the spirit of the theatre's resident ghost, Ellen Terry. Read by Lesley Hart.
31. Saskia Ashdown reads Sara Shaarawi's Letter to the Lyceum
05:20||Season 1, Ep. 31Playwright Sara Shaarawi pens a letter about the unexpected experience of swapping the big city for lockdown on the Isle of Colonsay. Read by Saskia Ashdown.
30. Lesley Hart reads Val McDermid's Letter to the Lyceum
07:09||Season 1, Ep. 30Starting out from her roots in the lang toun; Val McDermid reflects on the 'perpetual promise' of theatre. Read by Lesley Hart.
29. Saskia Ashdown reads Alec Finlay's Letter to the Lyceum
07:44||Season 1, Ep. 29From the surreal to the sensual, the profound to the practical, Alec Finlay's letter weaves a tapestry from memories of live performance in Scotland. Read by Saskia Ashdown.