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Live Theatre: Posting Letters to the Moon

Talk

26 Jun 2022 | 7pm | Rausing Building

There are no tickets available for the event at this stage as they were sold out when it was originally scheduled in 2020. If you have a ticket and we have not been able to contact you or you would like to put your name forward in the possibility that there might be returned tickets available then please email us

events@athelstanmuseum.co.uk

These readings of wartime letters between Celia Johnson and her husband Peter Fleming are read by her daughter Lucy Fleming with Simon Williams. This is an evening they have toured the world with. It is a romantic, funny and very touching portait of life during the early 1940s. 


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