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Letters to the Lyceum
Letters Bag 1: First Trips
Season 1, Ep. 7
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David presents a selection of extracts from letters sent in by our audience, themed around people's first trip to the theatre. Expect tales of fairy dust, cheek bones to die (and travel all the way from Sheffield) for, epic journeys and jealously guarded mint creams.
Music by Rachel Newton, letters read by Saskia Ashdown.
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35. Karine Polwart reads her Letter to the Lyceum
11:17Karine's letter takes us back from the Lyceum stage to former plague times, via the birds that visited her Midlothian garden during lockdown.
34. Lesley Hart reads Philip Howard's Letter to the Lyceum
06:27Lesley 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
05:58Sam'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
03:50Tony 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
05:20Playwright 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
07:09Starting 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
07:44From 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.
28. Peter Forbes reads Neal Ascherson's Letter to the Lyceum
07:34Peter Forbes reads Neal Ascherson's Letter to the Lyceum on the sensuality, possibility and power represented by an empty theatre.Music by Rachel Newton
27. Peter Forbes reads Ricky Ross's Letter to the Lyceum
09:36Peter Forbes reads a letter penned by musician and broadcaster Ricky Ross: a heartfelt tribute to a true devotee of Scottish theatre.